EXPLORE THE TOP 10 PRODUCTION AND CONCEPT CARS OF 2025

Designers and manufacturers present upgraded vehicles that explore future mobility, updated classic forms, and mixed-use materials in our Top 10 Cars of 2025. Take Alef Aeronautics’ Model A, which is a flying car that moves on roads and rises vertically. The body keeps the form of a road car and hides the lift system inside the shell, as the idea is a single vehicle for both driving and flying. Other makers explore narrow or compact forms, with a modified Fiat Panda becomes a 50-centimeter-wide electric car with one central seat, or a three-wheel Velocar uses birch plywood, bicycle parts, and simple tools so users can repair or rebuild it in a small workshop.

Children’s mobility also enters the field, as seen in Toyota’s Kids Mobi running on autonomous system. It drives around one child and without any adult supervision on board. Some designers and brands update classic vehicles as seen in our Top 10 Cars of 2025. Sean Wotherspoon, for example, rebuilds a Porsche and a Land Rover with new surfaces, new fabrics, and revised layouts. With Twisted Automotive, the team reworks old Beetles with off-road parts. There’s also Mercedes-Benz and its Art Deco-inspired Vision Iconic concept car, bearing a glass instrument panel with lighting animation, continuing our list’s design studies in the automotive industry.

DRIVABLE FLYING CAR BY ALEF AERONAUTICS TAKES FLIGHT

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Alef Aeronautics debuts the flight of its flying car, Alef Model A, in a public exhibition. The event focused on the design and operation of the drivable vehicle that can lift off the ground, which included a test flight recorded on February 19, 2025. In the video, the car moves on a road and then rises vertically. It also flies over another vehicle, and this is the team’s way to display the proof of a working flying car with vertical takeoff and landing. The Model A has the outer form of a road car so it can park in normal parking spaces and travel on public streets. The body houses the lift system inside the structure, and the design doesn’t use exposed propellers. The interior includes a gimbaled cabin that stays level in the air, while the elevon system manages vertical and forward movement.

MOTOFOCKER VELOCAR COMBINES BICYCLE AND CAR IN ONE

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Motofocker Velocar is a three-wheel vehicle made by designer Máté Fock, whose style sits between a bicycle and a small car. The chassis is made from birch plywood that resists water and heat, and many of its parts come from normal bicycle components. Some others are from semi-finished industrial products. These materials can help the user repair the vehicle and recycle the parts easily and even allow them to build the vehicle with ready hand tools in a small workshop. The Velocar, which forms part of our top 10 cars of 2025, uses both human power and an electric system and moves like a bicycle. The design offers a stable seating position, space for luggage, and weather cover.

WORLD’S NARROWEST FIAT PANDA DRIVES AROUND

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Modded 1993 Fiat Panda becomes dubbed the world’s narrowest of its kind, still drivable as a fully functional electric car. The maker, Andrea Marazzi, builds the vehicle by hand using reused parts from the original model and makes his version only 50 centimeters wide. He keeps the roof, the doors, and many visual elements from the first car, but the body, frame, and inside structure are redesigned. The driver sits in the center, and the car uses a small steering wheel. A single headlight is placed on the front for night use, and the rear of the vehicle has a pointed form similar to a boat’s front section. The exterior, then, resembles a slice of pizza for how narrow and compact it is.

ELECTRIC BUBBLE CAR FOR KIDS RUNS WITHOUT ADULTS ON BOARD

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Toyota introduces Kids Mobi as an electric pod-type vehicle made for children. The car manufacturer showed the prototype at the Japan Mobility Show 2025, telling the viewers they saw it as a vehicle that could move a child without an adult inside. In fact, the vehicle has a round pod shape, which is kid-friendly, and the door opens upward so an adult can help the child enter. Inside, there is one seat with soft material, and the space is large enough for one child to sit with a seat belt. The front has LED eyes that move to interact with the kids before they step in. The Kids Mobi uses an autonomous driving system with sensors and cameras. It is the AI system that controls direction, speed, and route of the vehicle, driving the child on its own and without any adult supervision.

SEAN WOTHERSPOON REVAMPS PORSCHE AND LAND ROVER

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Sean Wotherspoon takes a Porsche 911 Carrera 2.7RS and a 1958 Land Rover and reimagines their surfaces, colors, and interiors. For the former, the designer repainted every panel and replaced every surface inside the car, wrapping the cabin with vintage Levi’s denim, corduroy, and flannel fabrics sourced from garments dating back to the 1960s. For the latter, the designer kept the original panels and chassis, and the team added a rebuilt engine, a new gearbox, new wheels, a simple digital system with CarPlay, and new rear seats with speakers. Sean Wotherspoon also added an updated layout to the body, giving both car models his signature color blocks.

REFLECTIVE SUPERCAR PERALTA S FEATURES MIRROR-POLISHED BODY

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Peralta S is a one-off supercar designed by GFG Style. First shown in Mexico in March 2025, the vehicle’s design takes inspiration from the Maserati Boomerang. Its main feature is its mirror-polished aluminum body, with the entire exterior frame being made from handmade aluminum panels. Because of this, the surface reflects the surroundings. Only a few parts use other materials: the front spoiler, rear diffuser, and side sills are made from carbon fiber to reduce weight and improve airflow. The vehicle uses a dome system for entry, with the top section lifts upward as one piece so the driver can step inside. The side windows also open upward on their own hinges, and from above, the vehicle has a teardrop layout. The lights are hidden under the front and rear sections, and when the car starts, the rear lights create a shadow-light effect, and the rear spoiler rises for function.

TWISTED T-BUG IS A MODIFIED BEETLE FOR OFF-ROAD TERRAINS

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Twisted Automotive presents T-Bug, a modified version of the classic Beetle, made for off-road use on desert ground, sand dunes, and uneven terrain. Each model begins as an air-cooled Beetle from the 1960s to 1980s, and the design team removes all parts and works from the bare structure. They seal and strengthen the chassis so the vehicle can handle modern roads. Then, they install long-travel suspension and large off-road tires to increase ground contact on different surfaces. The team keeps the original Beetle shape, but the bodywork, evident here in our top 10 cars of 2025 list, is restored and repainted inside and outside in the color chosen by the owner. The engine is upgraded to produce more power, but it stays under 80 horsepower so the driver can feel the terrain at a controlled speed.

LAMBORGHINI MANIFESTO CONCEPT SIGNALS MINIMALIST FUTURE

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Lamborghini presents the Manifesto concept to mark twenty years of its in-house design studio, Centro Stile. The vehicle is a design study with no plan for production, as it is used to test ideas about the future look of the brand. The design team, led by Mitja Borkert, removes the usual sharp lines and large wings from the past models and focuses on simple shapes and clear proportions for the concept vehicle. The front of the Manifesto then includes a Y-shaped light pattern, a shape that first appeared in a 2007 Lamborghini model. The nose of the car follows a straight layout that connects to the brand’s recent vehicle, and the air channels are designed as single openings to show a clean structure. A glass canopy forms the roof and the window area, creating a continuous piece that covers the cockpit and creates a clear view of the interior. At the rear, the concept uses vertical Y-shaped brake lights.

MERCEDES-BENZ REVEALS ART DECO-INSPIRED VISION ICONIC CAR

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Mercedes-Benz presents the Vision Iconic, a concept car takes its main ideas from the 1938 Mercedes-Benz Typ 540K Autobahn-Kurier. The design, as seen in our top 10 cars of 2025, uses the long front section, wide wheel arches, round headlights, and roof line of the older model. For the Vision Iconic, they apply Art Deco forms to update these elements. The front grille includes lighting animation, which changes in patterns when the car is active, and inside the car, the main feature is the instrument panel called the Zeppelin. It is shaped like a floating glass bar and contains thin lines and geometric shapes based on Art Deco design. When the door opens, the panel shows an analog-style animation. A screen runs across the width of the interior, and in the center there is a clock shaped like the Mercedes-Benz star. Materials inside include silver and gold marquetry panels around the doors and rear seats.

PAGANI DEBUTS OPEN-AIR SPEEDSTER HUAYRA CODALUNGA

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Pagani presents the Huayra Codalunga Speedster, an open-air version of the 2022 coupé. The project comes from the Pagani Grandi Complicazioni division and from sketches by Horacio Pagani, with its design using ideas from racing cars from the 1950s and 1960s. Inside the car, artisans shape the parts by hand: the gauges and meters come from solid metal blocks and are carved to form small pieces for the dashboard; and the steering wheel and gear knob follow older racing forms but use a carbon-fiber frame, mahogany inserts, and aluminum rivets shaped by hand. Pagani also develops a new fabric for the seats, door panels, and center console. The pattern comes from the four-exhaust symbol used in Pagani cars. Each piece has over 450,000 stitches. The body uses a new monocoque that joins frame and shell in one part. Then, the headlights sit inside the body, and the front bumper holds a splitter that moves air around and under the car. Even the side windows take forms from 1940s and 1950s race cars.