The Geneva Motor Show never fails to deliver when it comes to concept cars. Unveiled alongside the latest production models, concepts represent a way for automakers to showcase where their heads are at and where they want to be going in the future. But it’s not always automakers that present the concepts. Sometimes they come from design houses like Pininfarina.

These independent styling studios and engineering firms have come into some trouble lately as the automakers that used to contract their services for a variety of applications are increasingly relying on in-house departments. But Pininfarina has been resilient. Where others have closed, Pininfarina soldiers on. And this is its latest design.

Called the Cambiano after the town in which the company is based, this design study was first teased with a solitary cropped frontal image released on Facebook. Now a little over a week later, Pininfarina has released two more, showing part of the side in profile and the top from above. We’ll have to wait a little longer to see more, but from what we’ve seen so far, the Cambiano has our interests suitably piqued.

Pininfarina Cambiano concept comes into focus with two more images originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Turns out that Car and Driver was wrong about Kia’s upcoming rear-wheel-drive concept for Frankfurt being called the Veredus. The pulp and ink mag itself stumbled upon a bevy of newly leaked images showing Kia’s four-door coupe concept, and lo and behold, one of them reveals what this car will actually be called: GT.

One of the images is a nice elevated rear 3/4 shot that shows a decorative license plate bearing the “GT” moniker. The new photos also reveal more of the car’s design than we could tell from the aggressively cropped set that Kia distributed last month. Also included are the first views of this concept’s interior, which appears simply executed with high-end materials and a driver-oriented cockpit, but nowhere near realistic enough to be ready for production.

Check out all of the new Kia GT concept images in our gallery.

Kia RWD concept’s name revealed in newly leaked images originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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