And to confuse people even more, the HQ is unlikely to be in New York or London. At this rate, they'll headquarter the company in Lisbon just to screw with us.

Even the chinese HAVAL is a X-RAID under the body...

Bedford TK 570 - Love this truck. This one looks in good shape...

Toyota Yaris T Sport

It looks like they got some help from X-RAID, by using a previous version of the BMW X3 X-RAID platform to develop these Great Wall Dakar prototypes.

This one :) The MINI Rocketman...

And it starts with a surprising win from Carlos Sousa driving a Chinese Great Wall Haval... or maybe not that much... Carlos as proven to be a very consistent driver with his 15th Dakar participation... And this Haval car is actually a BMW X-Raid under the body...

I bet BMW's strategy is to make the MINI grow in size in order to slide a smaller MINI under this current generation.... I mean, a SMART ForTwo fighter...

Why SUBARU symetrical AWD is the best? check this out:

Very old but still works every winter, by the looks of those new snow chains...

It's not the fastest but in Europe we had the most beautiful Wagon. The Alfa 159 SW TI designed by Giugiaro...

I like this Ford concept a lot: the 021C ORANGE.

I believe the Magnum project was from Mack Trucks when Renault Trucks bought them, but still a great piece of engineering/design. It was produced more then 20 years...

That's a lot of cars.

Anyone have any guesses what the cars might actually be based on?

Good post and a rich comments section.

Any dog would love to ride in the back of my Alfa Romeo 159 SW .... with TI trim of course...

This one is also a part of my all-time vans collection. Nissan/Datsun Urvan... indestructible (like the HIACE). Go to african countries like Angola and you'll see them as TAXI...

you put a smile on my face, just by looking at those vans ...

No TOYOTA Hiace?