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2012 LA Auto Show Challenges Car Designers to Envision the Patrol Vehicle of 2025

Mike Lowery, the character Will Smith plays in Bad Boys I and II, is probably the action-movie cop that drives the best cars.

One can hardly argue that a Porsche 911 Turbo and a Ferrari 575 M sharing scenes with director Michael Bay’s personal 550 Maranello, beats a Crown Vic Interceptor or what-have-you any given day and twice on Sundays as a means of transportation for law enforcement officers.

Granted, this is a fictional character and the aforementioned cars are his own, rather than standard-issue patrol cars. Moreover, Don Johnson predated him with his Ferrari Daytona Spyder and subsequently, the Testarossa in Miami Vice.

All-New 2014 Kia Forte / Cerato Compact Sedan Closely Modeled After the Cee'd gets Teased

The Kia Forte, also known as the Cerato in some countries including Australia and Brazil, has only been in the market in sedan form since 2008, with the Coupe variant following in 2009 and the five-door hatchback in 2010, but the Korean automaker is ready to move forward and present its successor.

The new generation of the Forte sedan is teased in these official renderings ahead of a launch in its home market of Korea under the new name 'K3'(domestic market only) and possibly a U.S. debut either at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November or the Detroit Motor Show in January of 2013.

Kia said that after the Forte sedan goes on sale in Korea, it will appear in many overseas markets during the first quarter of 2013, and will be followed by the five-door hatchback and two-door coupe variants.

2012 LA Auto Show Organizers Say More Than 20 World Premieres Have Already Been Confirmed

We may be four and half months away from the opening of this year's edition of the Los Angeles Auto Show in the last week of November, but the shows organizers are already preparing us for what lies ahead.

The debut lineup is said to include more than 40 North American and at least 20 world premieres with more to be announced.

New Porsche Cayman Coupe to Debut at the LA Auto Show, Says Report

Our spy shooters and even some of our readers have been stalking the next Cayman sports coupe for months now as Porsche engineers continue to test the car on public roads and tracks alike.

We've already told you that the second generation Cayman will begin arriving in markets around the world by spring of 2013, but today, we learned from an Autonews report that the coupe version of the new Boxster will debut at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show this November.

Next VW Beetle Convertible Said to Launch with Several Retro-Flavored Editions

Even though Volkswagen executives have said that the recent E-Bugster Concept shown in Detroit in January and Beijing in April hints at the design of the next Beetle Convertible, our closest look at the open-top model comes from our spy pictures of the camouflaged prototypes.

For the final production variant, we will reportedly have to wait until the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show at the end of November (unless it debuts at the Paris Salon this September).