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New Ford Kuga (2012): Kick a Kuga (or an Escape) +video

New Ford Kuga / Escape Hands-Free Tailgate - Kick to Open The new 2012 Ford Kuga will debut later this month at the Los Angeles Motor Show (alright, strictly speaking it’s the 2013 Ford Escape – but they’re the same) so Ford has decided to tease the Kuga with its clever tailgate trick. Yes, the new Kuga has a tailgate that has a party trick – it opens when you kick it. Yes, we’ve all hard cars that need their doors kicking to shut them (the new Kuga will do that too), but opening with a kick is a bit of a first.

Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo at 2013 Los Angeles Motor Show

Newspress Mercedes wowed the LA fashionistas with a cool concept car built in partnership with PlayStation 3 racing game Gran Turismo 6. The new Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo imagines how a super sports car could look in future - think the SLS redrawn for 2020. Finished in a stunning, classic Merc liquid silver paint job, the long dimensions of the Merc Gran Turismo are cartoon exaggerated and all the better for it.

Concept Car of the Week: Buick Y-Job (1938)

Welcome to the first in a new, regular, series of features in which we highlight an important, forgotten or just plain cool concept car each week. Concept cars have thrilled and inspired for decades, testing the limits in terms of technology and design and shaping the ways cars are designed today. They're the pinnacle of our art and probably the thing that first piqued your interest in car design.