From the futuristic, the fantastic and the unusual to the cars that actually made it into production, X-Cars and Prototypes is a pocket-sized exploration of the engineering and design dreams of the top automobile manufacturers. This book documents many bizarre flights of fantasy as well as the cars that made it from the drawing board to the production line, such as the VW New Beetle, the Audi TT and the Mercedes Benz Vision (which became the A Class). Illustrated with a spectacular collection of colour and black-and-white photographs, this book provides an authoritative commentary on the world's most groundbreaking automotive designs.