Latest Concept Cars and Bikes

Volkswagen XL1 (261 miles per gallon ) : WOWWW... Much as we love supercars, there's also a lot to be said for automotive marvels on the efficiency side of things, too. Take this funny little  Volkswagen XL1 , for example – it's an honest-to-goodness production car that will reportedly hit something in the area of 261 miles per gallon. It's certainly not fast nor powerful, and it won't be cheap when it goes on sale, but the fact that engineers are actually capable of building something like this is incredibly remarkable. And props to  Volkswagen  for keeping that pod-car design intact, as well.

Provo concept name has Kia embroiled in terrorism controversy? In the relatively lengthy press release that  Kia  composed for the launch of its  Provo concept car  at the Geneva Motor Show  this week, the company never mentioned where the name came from, or what it means for the car. A very basic web search for "Provo" reveals that the inspiration for the hatch could have been a city in Utah, a township in South Dakota or a village in Bosnia. The name could be a reference to either an American (Fred) or Canadian (Dwayne) football player, and Provo might also accurately reference a "Dutch counterculture movement in the mid-1960s" or a ship in the US Navy. More likely than any of those, however, is that the Kia designers of the concept – a car that was wholly a product of the Korean automaker's design studios in Frankfurt, for the record – meant it as a play on the existing  Pro_cee'd hatchback . What the designers and Kia executives that signed off