Auto Shanghai 2017

Italian design house Pininfarina is in on the Auto Shanghai electrified vehicle fun, showing not just a single range-extended electric but teaming up with Hong Kong's Hybrid Kinetic Group for an entire family, starting with the H600 sedan and moving up to the seven-seat K750 SUV.

VW Group has its sights on 2025 for an expansion of its electrified vehicle portfolio. By that time, five of the group's all-electric vehicles will be wearing a Skoda badge ... compared to none today. Skoda starts now with a sporty electric crossover named the Vision E.

Auto Shanghai got underway this week, bringing with it a look at the near future of the auto market. It looks like we're in for a more attractive selection of electric cars, even more SUVs, and some vehicles from brands that didn't exist a few years ago.

If you need proof Chinese cars are fast catching up to the rest of the world, just look at some of the vehicles coming out of Auto Shanghai. The styling team at Haval has shown what it can do with the HB-03. It might be a concept for now, but the SUV previews what the future of Haval will look like.

Chery is one of the oldest, most established car manufacturers in China, but its range of cars doesn't exactly set pulses racing. If the Tiggo Sport Coupe SUV is anything to go by, that could be set to change.

Taking a break from the everyday hatchbacks and crossovers that populate its production lineup, MG Motor is dreaming bigger with its latest concept car. Unveiled at Auto Shanghai, the MG E-motion is a voluptuously sultry sports coupe with powerful electric drive.

The HP4 Race that BMW teased at the EICMA 2016 show is now going into a limited production run of 750 hand assembled units, complete with all carbon frame and wheels and ​a 158 kW ​power plant.

Tired of those boring, symmetrical car doors that just swing out to let you inside? Qoros' young mind has the cure in the new Model K-EV concept car, where no two doors are alike. The concept offers up to 311 miles of all-electric driving that starts off with the bang of a 2.6-second 0-62 mph.

Led by quirky offerings like the C4 Cactus, Citroen has re-established its identity, and quality new products are rolling off the production line. The new C5 Aircross takes the funky looks of the recently-released C3, and scales them up for life as a full-sized crossover.

VW Group has brought the floodlights to Shanghai and it's pointing them on its burgeoning electric vehicle technology. One of the Group electric concepts debuting at this week's Auto Shanghai show, the Audi e-tron Sportback serves as a sleeker, sportier followup to the 2015 e-tron quattro SUV.

Skoda will get in on VW Group's electric car action at next month's Auto Shanghai, where it will reveal its first electric concept. And it'll have some fun, dropping a 311-mile (500-km) AWD electric powertrain and Level 3 autonomous driving system in a sleek, muscular SUV.