Automotive

HUD's have all kinds of potential applications, but what if your car's entire windscreen was a mixed reality display, capable of overlaying all manner of graphics and animations over the view forward and even acting as a movie screen for passengers?

Some folks want to buy a carbon-bodied, fire-breathing supercar. Others want to build one themselves, and the kit car wizards at Factory Five Racing are putting together a monster of a thing capable of taking engines as big as a 9.5-liter LS V12.

The extreme performance car business is a brutal one, and records that take companies years to set can fall within months to a determined competitor. Here's eight new and astonishing benchmarks the car world established in 2019.

It takes a lot to stand out in today's crowded super/hyper/uber/mega car market, but famed F1 designer Gordon Murray has found several ways to make his upcoming T.50 supercar a true contender without bothering to chase speed or power records.

After first revealing its autonomous electric delivery pod in January last year, robotics startup Nuro has now teamed up with Walmart for grocery delivery by self-driving pod in the Houston metro area.

The VW California continues to capture imaginations, but it's other camper vans with origins in Westphalia now pushing the envelope. The Mercedes Marco Polo becomes the smartest small camper van on autobahns, gaining new smart home-style control.

Back in 2016, McLaren took its awesome 570S sports series street car and turned it into a GT4 race car. Now, it's taken the GT4 race car and turned it into a faster, harsher and flashier street car with a laser focus on fast racetrack work: the 620R.

Last year, Italy's XEV announced a partnership with Polymaker to produce a small electric city runabout called the LSEV. Now the name has changed to the YoYo and the car has moved closer to production with the launch of a Kickstarter campaign.

Most people don't need a 770-hp AWD supertruck with thin sports tires, an aerodynamic front splitter, race brakes and a 3.45-second 0-60 mph time. There are others, though, that would look at Shelby's new F-150 Super Snake Sport, and think "Hmm. Me want."

The US may not have Europe's market of affordable, mass-produced camper vans, but it holds its own in off-grid vans custom-built around adventure sports. Many are focused on summer, but Titan offers a Sprinter year-rounder built for ski/surf bums.

Last time we looked at the SLRV Commander 8x8 two-story motorhome, it was still in the build, but it has since been completed. An engineering marvel, the wheeled explorer yacht brings together a military-grade shell with a duplex interior.

Swiss automotive design shop Rinspeed has readied a forward-focused vehicle concept for next month’s CES. The modular Rinspeed MetroSnap has the ability to become a corner store, a local postal office or really anything its owners might care to imagine.