Cadillac

New Atlas has racked up the miles this year, crossing the globe to cover motor shows, launches and stories in the automotive world. Starting in Detroit, we've seen concept cars putting a new spin on classic luxury and modern sports cars. Here's our pick of the best concept cars launched in 2016.

Rather than burdening the leather-lined dash with a cheap dashcam, Cadillac is using four inbuilt cameras as a surround-vision video recorder. Beware, Caddy Big Brother is watching.

Although it's the high-end CTS Vsport model getting all of the midsize luxury market attention within Cadillac's CTS model range, we found the best-selling mid-level package​ deserves some love, too.

The Cadillac CTS-V has always been a slightly left-of-center choice for those after a big, fast car. With its third generation CTS-V, Cadillac has combined a more sophisticated chassis with a supercharged V8, producing 640 hp (477 kW).

Although they're meant to show what's happening on the road behind you, rear-view mirrors can be obstructed by headrests, passengers and luggage. To counter this, Cadillac is planning to replace the rear-view mirror with a video feed. It estimates a 300 percent increase in field of vision.

Cadillac continues to shake its reputation for producing heavy, thirsty, slow cars with a brace of performance cars that can challenge the best Europe has to offer. Cadillac has now decided to take the fight to the racetrack with its new ASTV.R that meets FIA GT3 specifications.

General Motors CEO Mary Barra announced this week that the automaker will launch the Super Cruise advanced driver assistance system and vehicle-to-vehicle communications within the next two years. Both technologies will find their way into 2017 model year vehicles.

Cadillac is set to offer Powermat wireless charging for smartphones in the 2015 ATS sport sedan and coupe in coming months, with the 2015 CTS and the Escalade SUV to follow suit at the end of the year.

Gizmag borrowed Cadillac's first extended range electric vehicle based off the Chevrolet Volt for a few days and found it to be a strange combination of underrated, but perhaps still overpriced.

Carnegie Mellon researchers have outfitted a 2011 Cadillac SRX with an array of sensors that allow the vehicle to navigate congested roadways and unobtrusively communicate with other vehicles and street signals.

Nestled amongst this mouth-watering automotive array at this year's Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance was the “concept lawn” – a showcase of over twenty concepts cars and new production models including world and North American debuts. Here's our selection of the best the lawn had to offer.

The next year or two may very well prove to be a golden age for cutting edge concept cars making the leap to production with everything from $850,000 supercars to redefined commuters heading for production.