New York: 14 Concepts: Cars of tomorrow, today!

One of the delights of any auto show is to see what's in the futuristic pipeline. The New York Auto Show gave visitors a tour of the skunk works from the General Motors and Segway collaboration - the PUMA urban warrior - to the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG supercar, still in the CAD machine (see gallery).

Closer to your own family garage were the Scion iQ from Toyota, a micro subcompact with street-cruising attitude; the Acura ZDX that's aimed squarely at the brand new BMW X6 M; and the Hyundai Nuvis, straight from the company's California Design Studio and featuring a unique parallel hybrid drivetrain architecture.

Remember, there's not much new that didn't spring from somebody's concept of new.