EYE concept coming to Geneva has Tesla Motors connection

Filed under: Concept Cars , Geneva Motor Show , Tesla , Electric IED Tesla EYE concept – Click above for high-res image gallery Though it proudly sports a chrome Tesla Motors logo on its nose, the Geneva-bound EYE concept pictured above was not penned by that California company’s designers. Not directly anyway. That credit goes to 11 transportation design master course students at the Istituto Europeo di Design of Turin ( IED ).

Nissan V2G wins LA’s 2009 Design Challenge

Filed under: Concept Cars , LA Auto Show , Nissan , Electric Nissan V2G — Click above for high-res image gallery The LA Auto Show’s Design Challenge has a victor from among its Youthmobile 2030 entries: the Nissan Vehicle-to-Grid, aka V2G. It envisions a nationwide electric highway system (the “grid”) driven on by Generation Z, and their cars will pay for use of the grid like a mobile phone plan. The V2G doesn’t offer much in the way of variety, but it’s ultra-efficient, cheap to run, and convoys of them can gather in interlocked formations called “flocks.” But when the Gen Z’ers get their hacking fingers on it, they customize it so it can be taken off-grid, creating the V2G Unlimited and the Halo-esque future we are beginning to think is inevitable

VIDEO: Travis Pastrana does tricks on DC Shoe Bike

Filed under: Videos , Motorcycle Travis Pastrana’s DC Shoe Bike – Click above to watch the video after the break When we first stumbled upon this video from the fertile minds at DC Shoes – think Travis Pastrana and Ken Block – we asked ourselves the only logical question we could muster: What the heck is a Shoe Bike? Turns out that it’s exactly what you’d expect – that is, if you’d ever expect such a thing to exist at all, but we digress

SEMA 2009: Jeep Lower Forty a favorite in the Mopar display

Filed under: Aftermarket , SEMA Show , SUV , Jeep , Off-Road Jeep Lower Forty – Click above for a high-res image gallery Our SEMA coverage generally doesn’t include too much from the off-road segment, but the Jeep Lower Forty concept in the Mopar booth was too good to pass up. Sporting 40-inch Mickey Thompson tires, this Jeep can pretty much go wherever it wants without the help of a suspension lift.

Mitsubishi sketches out Concept-cX-influenced compact crossover for 2010

Filed under: Concept Cars , Geneva Motor Show , Japan , Crossover , Mitsubishi , Diesel Mitsubishi Compact Crossover – Click above for high-res image It’s been two years since Mitsubishi took the wraps off its Concept-cX crossover at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show , but before we see the production version at next year’s Geneva Motor Show , Mitsubishi has released a teaser sketch of its all-new compact CUV. Aimed at competing with segment stalwarts like the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4 , the Compact Crossover will be built atop Mitsubishi’s new mid-size global architecture with power likely provided by a 1.8-liter turbodiesel channeling around 140 hp and 206 lb-ft of torque through Mitsubishi’s Twin-Clutch SST gearbox and all-wheel drive system

Tokyo 2009: Honda rolls out the EV-Cub, we pray for a production model

Filed under: Tokyo Motor Show , Honda , Motorcycle , Alternative Fuel Honda EV-Cub Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery You meet the greenest people on a Honda. Well, maybe not quite yet…

REPORT: Land Rover replacing 61-year-old Defender model

Filed under: SUV , Land Rover 2008 Land Rover Defender SVX – Click above for high-res photo gallery There aren’t very many vehicles on our blue planet that have soldered on for 61 straight years, but the Land Rover Defender comes up on the short list. The Defender is reason numero uno why Land Rover has the off-road superstar status that it does, but the Detroit Free Press is reporting that the go anywhere SUV may finally be nearing the end of the dirt trail.

Tokyo 2009: Honda CB1100 brings back the UJM

Filed under: Tokyo Motor Show , Honda , Motorcycle Honda CB1100 – Click above for high-res image gallery Honda officially took the wraps off a couple new motorcycles this week at the Tokyo Motor Show , and along with the hotly anticipated VFR 1200F , the retro-styled CB1100 is one bike that’s receiving plenty of attention.

REPORT: Mazda’s design chief working on new RX-7

Filed under: Concept Cars , Coupe , Performance , Mazda Click above for a high-res gallery of past Mazda RX-7s We’ve been hearing rumblings about a Mazda RX-7 revival for so long, we’ve almost gotten numb to the idea of a next-generation, rotary-powered coupe. But Mazda’s new design chief, Ikua Maeda, has given us a desperately needed hope injection when he told Autocar that initial sketches have been completed and he’s campaigning Mazda execs to bring the new sports car to market

Unexpected Greenery: TVR Artemis concept from Niels van Roij

Filed under: Concept Cars , Coupe , Performance , UK , Design/Style , Alternative Fuel TVR Artemis concept from Niels van Roij – Click above for high-res image gallery TVR , a British sportscar manufacturer with a troubled past and a very uncertain future, has historically been known for producing brutish performance cars with impossibly curvy bodies molded from fiberglass and powerful inline-six and V8 engines. As such, the idea of an eco-friendly TVR never really crossed our minds until we saw Niels van Roij’s TVR Artemis concept. The Dutch designer created the Artemis as his final-year project at the Design Academy Eindhoven in The Netherlands

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