Los Angeles Motor Show 2016

Beyond fast, flashy cars, Southern California is home to some highly capable off-road-ready pickup trucks and SUVs. This year's LA Auto Show highlighted that side nearly as well as it highlighted flashy cars, and we have the photos to prove it.

The LA Auto Show started this week and New Atlas spent a few days speed-walking the floor to get the scoop on new cars, trucks, urban transporters and auto technology. We've put together an overflowing gallery of the best of the best cars for your viewing pleasure.

With growing sales and a lineup led by the Outback, the only thing missing from the Subaru stable is a big four-wheel drive. Launched in Los Angeles, the Viziv-7 gives an idea what that might look like.

Having launched the Giulia to strong reviews last year, Alfa Romeo has taken the next step in its revival with its first ever four-wheel drive. The Stelvio is a crucial car, going head to head with the popular Porsche Macan and Mercedes GLC.

Hyundai has added another string to the bow of its forward-thinking IONIQ range of cars. Joining the hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery-electric IONIQ models is a conceptual autonomous model, with Hyundai designing the self-driving systems to be "as simple as possible."

Maybach offers a range of gloriously overblown limos spearheaded by the long wheelbase S660 Pullman. The lineup even caters to sunlight loving billionaires – at least it does now, with the launch of the Mercedes-Maybach S650 Cabriolet in LA.

The 2016 Paris Motor Show will be remembered as the time big car manufacturers flicked the switch and committed to electric mobility. Now, Jaguar has decided to get in on the act with the I-Pace Concept.

Porsche might have received criticism when it released the first-generation Panamera, but the release of the second-generation model have refined the formula. The (now) very pretty Panamera has been treated to two new models: an entry level V6 and a new range-topping, long-wheelbase Executive.

Although they're perfectly legal in Europe, a law from 1968 means laser lights can't be fitted to American cars without being heavily modified. The R8 V10 Plus Exclusive Edition is the first Audi to sport US-friendly laser headlamps, packed in with a list of upgrades to the standard R8 package.

Since 2001, BMW has aggressively expanded the range of cars wearing a Mini badge. Coupes and funky vans have joined the classic hatch, but no car signals a bigger departure from the compact simplicity of the original Sir Alec Issigonis' Mini than the latest Countryman SUV.