Gallery: The Best of the 2009 L.A. Auto Show

An already fantastic car, updated where it matters – under the sheet metal

Lexus reveals a $375,000 sports car powered by a Formula One-inspired engine. Will buyers forgo traditional exotics and embrace the Toyota Way?

VW brings the diesel Golf back to the US with a new, cleaner two-liter TDI engine that's quiet, responsive and sips fuel. And the car's not so bad either

Toyota will unveil this sleek, rear-wheel-drive coupe, recalling the Toyota AE86 of the 1980s, at the Tokyo Motor Show this month. But buyers will likely have to wait until 2011 to get their hands on one, for around $30,000.

A 24-month skunkworks project yielded the Supersport, an even more powerful variant of the Continental GT that’s also lighter and can run on ethanol –- large quantities of it. It's also the fastest, most powerful Bentley every built.

Myers Motors, maker of the one-seat NMG electric car, unveiled a two-seater it says will hit 75 mph and travel 60 miles on a charge when it goes into production next year. Now all it needs is a name