Dymaxion car
Dymaxion Corporation · 1933
A three-wheeled teardrop that steered with its single rear wheel; only three were built.
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Dymaxion Corporation · 1933
A three-wheeled teardrop that steered with its single rear wheel; only three were built.
Volvo · 1933
A streamlined 1930s Volvo study that pointed the way to the PV36 Carioca.
Buick (General Motors) · 1938
Widely considered the car industry's first concept car. Harley Earl used it as his personal daily driver.
Rust Heinz (one-off) · 1938
A one-off six-seater built by a Heinz ketchup heir, with push-button doors and no door handles.
General Motors · 1951
A rain sensor raised its soft top automatically, and Harley Earl drove it as his own car.
Alfa Romeo / Bertone · 1953
BAT stands for Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica: three aerodynamic studies (BAT 5, 7 and 9) with dramatic curved tail fins.
Fiat · 1954
Italy's first gas-turbine car; its drag coefficient of 0.14 stood as a record for decades.
Ford · 1954
A jet-age show car with a clear bubble canopy, shown at the 1954 Chicago Auto Show.
Pontiac (General Motors) · 1954
A fibreglass two-seater with a bubble canopy, built for GM's 1954 Motorama show.
Lincoln (Ford) / Ghia · 1955
George Barris turned it into the Batmobile for the 1966 Batman TV series.
Pontiac (General Motors) · 1956
A low two-seater with twin bubble windscreens, built for GM's 1956 Motorama show.
Ford · 1958
Meant to be powered by a small nuclear reactor in the back. Only a scale model was ever built.
Cadillac (General Motors) · 1959
Radar units in its nose cones were meant to warn the driver of obstacles ahead.
Plymouth (Chrysler) / Ghia · 1960
Deliberately asymmetric: a long hump runs over the driver's side only.
Chevrolet (General Motors) · 1961
Painted to fade from blue to white like a shark, it previewed the 1963 Corvette Sting Ray.
Chevrolet (General Motors) · 1962
A mid-engined coupé built on Corvair parts, with a canopy instead of conventional doors.
Ford · 1962
A mid-engined two-seater that first carried the Mustang name, yet looks nothing like the production car.
Bertone (Chevrolet Corvair base) · 1963
Designed by a young Giorgetto Giugiaro at Bertone on a Chevrolet Corvair chassis.
Chrysler / Ghia · 1963
Gas-turbine powered; Chrysler lent them to ordinary families for road testing, then destroyed most of them.
General Motors · 1964
A fighter-jet-inspired two-seater from GM's Futurama show at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Vauxhall (General Motors) · 1966
A low, wedge-shaped two-seater: Vauxhall's first true dream car.
Bertone / Jaguar · 1967
Built on Jaguar E-Type mechanicals for a British newspaper's motor show stand.
Alexander Brothers (Dodge A100 base) · 1967
A custom Dodge A100 pickup you enter through the front. It became one of the first Hot Wheels cars in 1968.
Lamborghini / Bertone · 1967
Almost fully glazed gullwing doors and a straight-six made from half of Lamborghini's V12.
Alfa Romeo / Bertone · 1968
Named after the Carabus beetle. Its wedge shape and scissor doors pointed straight at the Lamborghini Countach.
Italdesign / Bizzarrini · 1968
Giugiaro's first car at Italdesign, with three seats side by side and the driver in the middle.
Alfa Romeo / Italdesign · 1969
Built on the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale chassis, with a brushed stainless-steel body.
Holden (General Motors) · 1969
Australia's mid-engined dream car, with a canopy roof and an early route-finding system.
Mercedes-Benz · 1969
An experimental test bed that ran Wankel rotary engines, then diesel engines that set speed records in the late 1970s.
American Motors (AMC) · 1970
A mid-engined American supercar developed with Giotto Bizzarrini; only a handful were built.
Pininfarina (Ferrari 512 S base) · 1970
There are no doors: the whole canopy slides forward to let you in.
Bertone (Lancia) · 1970
It is only about 84 cm (33 in) tall, and you get in through the hinged windscreen.
Mazda · 1970
A mid-engined rotary study whose tail lights changed colour to show if it was speeding up or braking.
Vauxhall (General Motors) · 1970
A mid-engined 'Styling Research Vehicle' that hid four doors inside its low wedge.
BMW · 1972
A gullwing safety-research concept shown for the 1972 Munich Olympics. Its ideas returned in the BMW M1.
Maserati / Italdesign · 1972
The steering wheel rim turned around a fixed hub that held all the gauges.
Chevrolet · 1973
A mid-engined Corvette that nearly reached production in the 1970s. The mid-engined Corvette finally arrived with the C8.
Lamborghini / Bertone · 1974
A compact Bertone wedge on Urraco mechanicals, intended as an Urraco replacement.
Lancia / Bertone · 1978
Built on Stratos mechanicals, with windows that flow into the bodywork without a visible frame.
Aston Martin · 1980
Built to reach 200 mph. It only managed that decades later, after a full restoration.
Citroën · 1980
A pyramid-shaped car with three seats in a row and the driver in the middle.
Ferrari / Pininfarina · 1980
A four-door Ferrari saloon with a flat-12, made for Pininfarina's 50th anniversary.
Lamborghini / Bertone · 1980
An open two-seater shown at Turin in 1980, while Lamborghini itself was close to bankruptcy.
Lotus / Italdesign · 1984
A Giugiaro-designed supercar planned around a new Lotus V8. It never reached production.
Nissan · 1985
Mid-engined, four-wheel drive and four-wheel steering: a Japanese supercar Nissan never built.
Oldsmobile (General Motors) · 1987
A. J. Foyt drove it to a closed-course speed record of about 257 mph (414 km/h) in 1987.
Bertone / Lamborghini · 1988
A people carrier with a Lamborghini Countach V12 under the bonnet.
Italdesign · 1988
Driver and passenger sit in two separate cockpits, each with its own windscreen.
Ferrari / Pininfarina · 1989
An open two-seater on Testarossa mechanicals, shown at the 1989 Tokyo Motor Show.
Audi · 1991
Its mirror-polished aluminium body previewed Audi's aluminium cars; the W12 engine was a mock-up.
Mercedes-Benz · 1991
A gullwing supercar with active aerodynamics; hundreds of buyers wanted one, but it was never built.
Renault · 1992
An electric two-seat city car whose rear wheels could fold in to make it shorter for parking.
Chrysler · 1995
A modern take on the Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic, with a straight-eight engine.
Ford · 1995
A quad-turbo V12 with a claimed 720 hp. Its 'New Edge' styling shaped Ford design in the late '90s.
Lamborghini / Italdesign · 1995
A V10 four-seater study, years before Lamborghini's V10 Gallardo.
Alfa Romeo · 1996
A retro-styled coupé whose chassis was designed to take different bodies.
Alfa Romeo / Italdesign · 1997
A four-wheel-drive, twin-turbo V6 coupé built by Italdesign.
Dodge (Chrysler) · 1997
A smaller, cheaper sports car meant to sit below the Viper.
Volkswagen / Italdesign · 1997
The W12 Nardo version set a 24-hour world record in 2002, averaging more than 320 km/h.
Bugatti / Italdesign · 1998
The first Bugatti under Volkswagen ownership, with a W18 engine.
Bentley · 1999
A mid-engined W16 coupé; the engine idea later went into the Bugatti Veyron.
Cadillac (General Motors) · 1999
Previewed the Cadillac XLR roadster and the brand's sharp-edged new style.
Ford · 1999
A pastel city car by industrial designer Marc Newson rather than a car designer.
Audi · 2000
Named after the pre-war Auto Union racer Bernd Rosemeyer, with a W16 engine under the silver skin.
Volkswagen · 2002
Built to use one litre of fuel per 100 km; the idea led to the VW XL1.
Cadillac · 2003
A 13.6-litre V16 rated at 1,000 hp, a nod to Cadillac's V-16 cars of the 1930s.
Chrysler · 2004
Four turbos and twelve cylinders: an AMG-sourced 6.0-litre V12 with a claimed 850 hp.
Rolls-Royce · 2004
A V16 convertible for Rolls-Royce's centenary that led to the Phantom Drophead Coupé.
Volvo · 2004
'Your Concept Car' was designed by a team of women at Volvo; even the oil check was left to the dealer.
Maserati / Pininfarina · 2005
Built for Pininfarina's 75th anniversary on Maserati MC12 mechanicals.
Toyota · 2005
A one-seat electric pod that sat upright in town and leaned back for speed.
Toyota · 2007
A front-engined hybrid sports concept that was widely read as a hint of a new Supra.
BMW · 2008
Its skin is fabric stretched over a movable metal frame, so the body can change shape.
Mazda · 2008
A race-car-based rotary concept that was later destroyed by fire during a Top Gear photo shoot.
Bertone (Corvette ZR1 base) · 2009
A one-off coupé built on the chassis of a Chevrolet Corvette ZR1.
Jaguar · 2010
First shown with micro gas-turbine range extenders. Stunt versions later appeared in the Bond film Spectre.
Peugeot · 2010
An electric speedster that set records for electric cars, including at the Nürburgring.
Renault · 2010
An electric coupé that launched Renault's new design language under Laurens van den Acker.
Cadillac (General Motors) · 2011
A four-door convertible with rear-hinged back doors, shown at Pebble Beach.
Mercedes-Benz · 2011
A hydrogen fuel-cell saloon study for Mercedes-Benz's 125th anniversary.
Peugeot · 2012
A hybrid supercar with hand-shaped copper panels and an interior made from felt and pressed newspaper.
Lamborghini · 2013
A single-seater built for Lamborghini's 50th anniversary, with a cockpit inspired by an attack helicopter.
Lamborghini · 2014
Lamborghini's first plug-in hybrid study, with a V10 and three electric motors.
Bugatti · 2015
Designed for the Gran Turismo game; its looks previewed the Bugatti Chiron.
Hyundai · 2015
A hydrogen fuel-cell racer designed for the Gran Turismo game.
Cadillac (General Motors) · 2016
A long four-door fastback with curved OLED screens inside.
Lamborghini / MIT · 2017
An electric study with MIT where the carbon body itself would store energy.
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BMW · 1999
BMW's first SUV, which it called a Sports Activity Vehicle, developed while BMW owned Land Rover.
Aston Martin · 2020
Aston Martin's first SUV, built in a new factory in St Athan, Wales.
Chevrolet · 2020
The first mid-engined production Corvette.
Ferrari · 2002
Named after the company's founder; early test mules wore modified Ferrari 348 bodies.
Land Rover · 1997
Land Rover's first monocoque model, and for years Europe's best-selling 4x4.
Rolls-Royce · 2018
Rolls-Royce's first SUV, named after the largest gem-quality diamond ever found.
Jaguar · 1992
Parts of its drivetrain were tested hidden inside a Ford Transit van.
Mercedes-Benz / McLaren · 2003
Built by McLaren in Woking, with a front-mid V8 and side-exit exhausts.
Nissan · 2007
Early test mules wore Infiniti G35 (Skyline V35) coupe bodies.
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China · founded 1986
Bought Volvo Cars from Ford in 2010.
China · founded 1955
Owns MG since buying it via Nanjing Automobile in 2007.
China · founded 1995
Started as a battery maker.
China · founded 1997
China · founded 1984
China · founded 1862
Began as a state arsenal in 1862.
China · founded 1997
China · founded 1969
China · founded 1953
China · founded 1958
China · founded 2014
China · founded 2014
Volkswagen holds about 5%.
China · founded 2015
China · founded 2015
Stellantis holds about 21%.
China · founded 1986
China · founded 2010
The phone maker started selling cars with the SU7 in 2024.
Croatia · founded 2009
Hyundai Motor Group and Porsche are among its shareholders.
France · founded 1899
Germany · founded 1937
Germany · founded 1916
Germany · founded 1926
BAIC and Geely founder Li Shufu each hold roughly 10% of the group.
India · founded 1945
Bought Jaguar Land Rover from Ford in 2008.
India · founded 1945
Iran · founded 1962
Iran · founded 1966
Italy · founded 1947
Largest shareholder: Exor (the Agnelli family holding).
Italy · founded 1992
Independent, founded by Horacio Pagani.
Japan · founded 1937
Japan · founded 1948
Japan · founded 1933
Japan · founded 1920
Toyota holds about 5%.
Japan · founded 1953
Toyota holds about 20%.
Japan · founded 1909
Toyota holds about 5%.
Japan · founded 1970
Nissan is the largest shareholder.
Japan · founded 1916
Toyota holds about 5%.
Japan · founded 1968
Small independent maker of retro-styled cars.
Malaysia · founded 1983
Owned by DRB-Hicom (50.1%) and Geely (49.9%).
Malaysia · founded 1993
Malaysian shareholders with Daihatsu (Toyota); most models are based on Daihatsus.
Netherlands · founded 2021
Formed in 2021 by the merger of PSA Group (Peugeot, Citroën) and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Headquarters: Amsterdam.
Russia · founded 1966
State-controlled since 2022; builds Lada cars in Tolyatti.
Russia · founded 2002
Russia · founded 1932
South Korea · founded 1967
Hyundai bought Kia in 1998.
South Korea · founded 1954
Owned by KG Group since 2022.
Sweden · founded 1994
Independent, founded by Christian von Koenigsegg.
Turkey · founded 2018
Turkey's electric car maker, owned by a consortium of Turkish companies (Anadolu Group, BMC, Kıraça, Turkcell, Zorlu) and TOBB.
USA · founded 1908
USA · founded 1903
USA · founded 2003
USA · founded 2009
USA · founded 2007
Majority owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.
United Kingdom · founded 1913
Largest shareholder: Lawrence Stroll's Yew Tree consortium; Geely holds ≈17%.
United Kingdom · founded 1985
Owned by Abu Dhabi's CYVN Holdings since 2025.
United Kingdom · founded 1910
Majority owned by Investindustrial (Italy) since 2019.
United Kingdom · founded 1973
Owned by VT Holdings (Japan) since 2021; builds the Seven, originally a Lotus design.
Uzbekistan · founded 1992
State-owned; builds Chevrolets for Central Asia.
Vietnam · founded 2017
Part of Vingroup, Vietnam's largest private company.
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