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Porsche in increasing its Paint to Sample availability to more than 160 color options. Exclusive Manufaktur is also offering Paint to Sample Plus, which lets customers choose an even more individual bespoke color. Paint to Sample is now available on every model in Porsche’s lineup and it costs between $11,430 to $12,830 extra. Paint to Sample Plus costs up to $25,660 on GT cars.Porsche’s list of optional extras is already immense, and Porsche says its customers want even more customization possibilities. The company announced earlier this year that it’ll build one-off dream cars from its Sonderwunsch program, and now customers will have even more choices when it comes to colors. Porsche is expanding its Paint to Sample offerings to over 160 colors for its entire lineup, including the Cayenne, Macan, and Taycan.
Porsche says that it is able to expand the Paint to Sample color palette because of a new color mixing bank at its factory in Zuffenhausen, Germany, where it builds the 911 and 718 sports cars and the Taycan electric sedan, which was shown in Rubystar for its 2022 model year updates. Many Paint to Sample colors resurrect historic colors such as Rubystar and Acid Green. Now, Porsche says, its 911 Paint to Sample production will increase from roughly five cars to nearly 20 per day, and this apparently does not increase the time of production.

If none of the new colors are what you desire, Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur will help customers find the perfect match with its Paint to Sample Plus program. It’s available on all Porsche models except for the Cayenne SUV. However, first Porsche needs to put the color through feasibility testing that can take up to 11 months. This can cost anywhere from $22,860 to $25,660 on the 911 Turbo/Turbo S and GT cars, and if the color doesn’t work, Porsche will cover the cost of testing. Paint to Sample specifications are available through Porsche dealers and cost anywhere from $11,430 to $12,830 for Turbo and GT cars. And soon Porsche says that its online configurator, our favorite to play with, will be updated to show Paint to Sample colors.
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Nissan has shared a comprehensive plan for future electric vehicles.Four EV concept cars comprise a pickup truck, a convertible sports car, and two crossovers and preview future electric models.Nissan also says it will be producing solid-state batteries by 2028, which will reduce cost dramatically.Nissan is the latest automaker to share its far-reaching future plans for electric vehicles, and we’re excited to see four new concept cars that give a good idea of some of the 15 new EV models that will arrive by 2030. A small pickup truck called the Surf-Out concept is perhaps the most noteworthy of these, but a convertible sports car called the Max-Out also piqued our interest. A boxy crossover called the Hang-Out is also included, while another small SUV concept called the Chill-Out looks to be the closest to production.

Nissan Surf-Out concept
Nissan

While it’s difficult to gauge the exact dimensions, the Surf-Out appears to be a small pickup truck that could slot into the lineup below the mid-size Frontier. It has a futuristic look with interesting lighting setups front and rear and a minimalist interior with a huge screen spanning the width of the dashboard. Nissan says it has some amount of off-road capability thanks to an e-4ORCE all-wheel-drive setup and it also features some sort of onboard generator.

Nissan Max-Out concept
Nissan

This convertible is the sportiest of the four concepts, with a low-slung stance and an emphasis on performance. Nissan says that it is lightweight and has a low center of gravity. The two seats are configurable and can flatten into the floor to transform the interior space.

Nissan Hang-Out concept
Nissan

This boxy small SUV strikes us as a spiritual successor to the Nissan Cube. It has a low floor and a tall roof, making for a lounge-like, spacious interior. The four seats rotate and move around in several different configurations, including one that creates a movie-theater-like space that appears to use a projector and a giant screen at the rear of the cabin. Like the other concepts, it has an e-4ORCE all-wheel-drive setup and ProPilot driver-assitance technologies.

Nissan Chill-Out concept
Nissan

The least futuristic of the concepts, the Chill-Out appears to foretell a production model that isn’t too far down the road. It looks somewhat like the Ariya but slightly smaller, and Nissan says it rides on the company’s CMF-EV platform. We expect this to arrive sooner rather than later as a subcompact EV crossover slotting in below the Ariya in terms of size and price.Look for more news to come from Nissan in the near future about these big plans for EV models. Other claims include a new battery plant set to open in the U.S. by fiscal year 2025 and for EVs to make up 40 percent of the company’s U.S. sales by fiscal year 2030.
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A just-revealed electric concept car from Swiss “deep tech” company WayRay shows off 3D augmented reality as part of the car’s technology.The car is designed for ride-hailing—someday you may call up an Uber Holograktor instead of an Uber Black—and is mainly a showcase for the holographic technology the company makes.Porsche, Hyundai, and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba are all early investors, WayRay says, and the company is targeting release, possibly with a major automaker, by the end of 2025. We love the sort of outlandish concept cars that treat themselves as high art, and regret that COVID-19 and the general death of the big auto show is increasingly denying us this pleasure. But here is a spectacular example of the genre to lift the late holiday weekend malaise: meet the WayRay Holograktor.

The concept’s purpose is serious: to demonstrate what Swiss company WayRay says is a new holographic windscreen display technology that will allow apparently three-dimensional images to be added to the real world. The angular concept that has been built to preview it, just officially unveiled in Germany, is a spectacular example of the attention-grabbing show car. The design might look as if it has been influenced by the early video games that attempted to render the world in large polygons, but WayRay says it is actually inspired by Russian constructivism, the abstract art movement that created many of the geometric propaganda posters used in the USSR.
“If you have those early Soviet posters in mind, you can see those brightly colored geometric shapes of triangles and blocks,” the Holograktor’s Russia-born designer Sasha Selipanov explains in the official press release—he previously worked for Bugatti, Genesis, and Koenigsegg. “Coincidentally, the triangular form is reminiscent of a prism, like Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album cover.” It’s hard not to love any car that cites both The Floyd and Soviet agitprop as its major influences.

WayRay says the Holograktor has been designed to preview a potential ride-hailing future, although not the fully autonomous one that even the makers of far-out concepts no longer regard as being inevitable. In addition to a fold-away steering wheel for the driver it is also designed for remote operation “by a qualified driver using the car’s cameras, radar, mapping and sensor suites.” Despite the Johnny Cab–style mission, the Holograktor’s unspecified EV powertrain is clearly intended to be potent: WayRay claims a 3.9-second zero-to-62-mph time, a 125-mph top speed, and 372 miles of range.
The Holograktor’s primary purpose is to demonstrate WayRay’s augmented-reality holographic displays. These use glass incorporating a transparent photopolymer film which is able to create an apparently three-dimensional image when struck by light generated by compact laser units. The company says that these Deep Reality Displays have a much bigger field of view than existing automotive head-up displays, and also that information can be shown much brighter at different apparent depths ranging between zero and infinity. Working without mirrors means the displays will still work in direct sunlight.
The rear-seat passenger also gets a separate display projected onto a glass screen in front of them from a unit on the concept’s roof the official release describes as “the shrimp.”
When it comes to the question of what the displays will display, things start to get trippy. The Deep Reality Displays are capable of showing driving information, highlighting pedestrian crossings or red stoplights. But WayRay is also predicting a future that includes radically different content, from games, scheduled appointments, and highlighting the proximity of social media contacts to—inevitably—advertising. The company says the system won’t show anything to distract a driver when the car is moving, although passengers will be fair game, but when it is stationary, the images of this metaverse show a world filled with manga-style characters and funky animations. WayRay predicts that immersive AI could ultimately reduce the cost of ride-hailing trips for those who agree to watch the ads roll by. And while many of us will view that as a dystopian nightmare, others are likely to welcome the chance to spend extra time with ever more realistic 3D cat videos, without even having to glance at your phone. WayRay says the display technology is ready for production, either in a street-legal version of the Holograktor, or in conjunction with other automakers.
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