Author: Brett

The Detroit Auto Show, in the midst of the frigid Midwestern winter, kicks off its annual car convention that defines the year for auto journalists in much the same way that Milan, Paris, and New York Fashion Weeks do for their trendy peers. Here are my seven favorite new vehicles unveiled in the Motor City.

The interior of the future promises to allow passengers to socialize or mediate with one another, via individuated high-resolution screens, motion simulating activators, and, perhaps most importantly, the noise cancelling capacity to negate whatever it is that your cohorts are streaming.

Your Butt Is Floating in Space

“I probably shouldn’t say this, but I’m going to,” says Honda’s director of advanced design. “We’re trying to make a future that doesn’t suck.”

In Faraday’s Future, you will not drive a car. You will be piloted by an electric, autonomous, content delivery device.

These ten vehicles are slated to become available to consumers in 2017, and we’re more excited about getting behind their steering wheels—or their self-driving interfaces—than just about anything else in the coming annum.

Prognostications about the future are most always wrong. But in a life that revolves around driving, we still keep our eyes up and on the horizon.