What the what? Lamborghini, you sure are great at surprises. First there was the stunning Veneno that showed up unexpectedly at the Geneva Motor Show, and now there's this.

It's hard to know what to be more astounded by: the look of this crimson wraith or the fact that it's based on a Valiant chassis, with a Slant-6 and everything. Whatever reason you choose, Virgil Exner Sr's 1960 XNR (get it?) concept is stunning.

The car business is all about selling you stuff you don't need, and it works. We buy crap we don't need from automakers all the time.

Called the ME.WE Concept, Toyota's newest answer to these challenging times is is four-wheel drive electric car with highly customizable Polypropylene body panels which can be used as a pick-up, a convertible, an off-roader or a small city car depending on your needs.

Concept cars can be a lot of fun, but if one turns out to catch the public's favor makers but never make it into production there's often a lot hand-wringing. While they usually have good (and mostly unknown) reasons for not producing these vehicles, what if you could change history? Which concept car would you save?

Whenever I see an email from any scrappy new startup company touting about how they're going to "revolutionize personal transportation" I can almost always sketch the car they're talking about without even seeing it: a sleek, low, three-wheeled wedge of a car. It's not always the case, but it's pretty incredible how…

Most of you preferred yesterday's Tensostruttura concept to the final product that become the LaFerrari. Here comes stage 2 of the development process. We're getting there...

Since 1446 (estimated), Jeep has been gathering up Jeep-fetishists in Moab, Utah for a week-long Easter Jeep Safari. In keeping with the Easter theme (rebirth of saviors, rabbits, eggs) they usually take the opportunity in the Deseret desert to show off some concepts. This year they're showing six concepts, but sadly…

The French asked a Welsh bloke to come up with their new design language. Ross Lovegrove is well known for his organic shapes, having collaborated before with such companies as Apple, Airbus, Sony or Peugeot. We can thank him for some of our early Walkmans.

No, this isn't Batman out on safari. It's the 2035 ZAIRE concept car, an advanced all-terrain vehicle designed for National Geographic's photography team. Assuming this badboy actually gets developed, it'll help the photographers traverse the often challenging and unpredictable African terrain.