Three of Britain's most famous marque's take center stage in this week's update. Jaguar surprised the crowds at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit with an all new styling exercise. The Advanced Lightweight Coupe Concept is a showcase of things to come from the 'leaping cat' in the future. Just weeks after Bentley announced the expansion of the range with a new drophead coupe, the luxury manufacturer showed the first pics of a four-door version of the Continental GT coupe. It is dubbed Continental Flying Spur after the original four-door Continental of the 1950s. Lotus livened up the British Autosport show with a highly modified version of the Exige; the Sport Exige, which features a tarmac shredding 400 bhp V6 engine.
Continuing the tradition of extraordinary concept cars, Chrysler launched the Jeep Hurricane Concept at the 2005 Detroit Show. Packed with two Hemi V8s, four wheel drive and four wheel steering, the Hurricane was without a doubt one of the show highlights.

Every year Chrysler surprises the gathered press and public with stunning prototypes. By combining the Viper platform and the 425 bhp version of the HEMI V8 engine, the American manufacturer created the Firepower Concept. A legendary name made its return at the NAIAS when Dodge unveiled the all new Charger R/T. On the other end of the COBO building Chevrolet completed the C6 Corvette line-up with the introduction of the 500 bhp Corvette C6 Z06 and Corvette C6-R racer.
Saleen stunned the Los Angeles crowds with the second generation of the S7 supercar. Dubbed the S7 Twin Turbo, it is packed with a twin turbocharged, 750 bhp version of the V8 engine found in the original S7.

The 17th annual North American International Auto Show opened its doors this past Sunday to thousands of global media personnel with the usual anticipation. After three days of continuous press conferences and photo opportunities, our trigger fingers are sore, and our minds are crammed full of automotive specifications and imaginative concept names.
So sit back and enjoy a full report and 225-shot slideshow of all the highlights.

The traditional warm-up for the Detroit motorshow is the Los Angeles Auto Show, which opens its door a week earlier. This year's show featured a large number of new production vehicles, leaving the concept cars for Detroit. Dodge expanded their 'SRT' performance line with a coupe version of the Viper and a hugely powerful Magnum variant. Perfectly suited to California's mild climate are the Bentley Arnage Drophead Coupe and the Ford Mustang GT. More new releases are listed below.

Bentley Arnage Drophead Coupe	Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS
Chevrolet Impala SS	Dodge Viper SRT10 Coupe
Dodge Magnum SRT-8	Ford Mustang GT Convertible
Pontiac G6 GTP Convertible	Pontiac G6 GTP Coupe

There is no slow start of the new year for the automotive industry; this Sunday the doors of the Cobo center in Detroit will open for the first of three press preview days of the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). Ultimatecarpage.com's complete photographic team will be on the floors to capture the many novelties, of which a full report, with hundreds of high resolution images will be published next week.
A host of all-new '2006 models' and concept cars is expected to be unveiled. Today we take a look at a number of new cars to be launched next week.

Acura RD-X Concept	Chevrolet HHR 2LT
Chrysler Firepower Concept	Ferrari 575M SuperAmerica
Ford Explorer SportTrac Concept	Jeep Gladiator
Land Rover Range Rover Sport	Mazda MX-Crossport Concept
Mercedes Benz ML 350	Mercury Meta One Concept
Mitsubishi Eclipse	Nissan Azeal Concept