The Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is known for hosting some of the greatest classic cars in the world, but a selection of newer concept cars and high performance vehicles were also on show.
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Alfa Romeo Pandion
Styled by Bertone and built atop Alfa's modern 8C Competizione chassis, the Pandion was commissioned by Alfa to commemorate its 100th anniversary.
The Pandion sports 4m long doors that scissor up on the rear wheels' axis. It was displayed at the 2010 Pebble Beach Concours in a special class celebrating Alfa's centenary.
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Bertone Mantide
Another Bertone creation on an existing chassis, in this case the 2009 Corvette ZR-1. It's seen here at The Quail: A Motorsports Gathering, where it was in this year's Super Cars class along with a 2008 Mercedes-Benz CLK AMG Black Series (the white car in the background), 2006 Bugatti Veyron and 1994 McLaren F1 (the blue car behind the Mantide).
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Lexus LFA
The concept car lawn at the 2010 Pebble Beach Concours included the Lexus LFA, which is scheduled to enter production later this year with eight of the production run of 500 allocated for Australia.
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Bugatti Veyron Super Sport
Pebble Beach also hosted a new Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport, which recently claimed the title of world's fastest production car.
Larger turbos and other modifications push the Super Sport's output to 882kW (1200hp), some 146 more than available on the standard Veyron, and good enough to propel it to 431km/h. The planned run of 30 production versions will be limited to a mere 415km/h though.
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McLaren MP4-12C prototype
Slated to go on sale overseas in late 2011, the much-anticipated McLaren MP4-12C was among the cars on Pebble Beach's concept car lawn.
Seen in the background (from left to right) are the VSR Concept Sports Rod by W K Cherry Design, the Lotus Type 125 and the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport.
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VSR Concept Sports Rod
Former GM design director Wayne Cherry styled this concept around a custom chassis and Cadillac running gear. It had previously appeared in the 2009 SEMA show in Las Vegas.
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I'll governate your chin
Star power is always on hand at Pebble Beach and 2010 again saw Jay Leno and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger enjoying the festivities. Here they leave the concept car lawn after checking out the McLaren MP4-12C prototype.
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