As was speculated last year, the Genesis will undergo a freshening for the 2012 model year and will offer a new eight-speed transmission. Last time the spy network at Brenda Priddy & Co. set their crosshairs on the ’12 Genesis, engineers kept the shifter covered up. Today, the camouflage is off the shifter, and the exterior of the car.

Audi unveiled its high-riding A4 Allroad at the 2009 Geneva Motor show, and at that time, it was thought the vehicle's future was for European roads only. However, judging from some recent photos supplied by Brenda Priddy and her team of shooters, that may be about to change.

Brenda Priddy's team of spy shooters caught these pictures of fire meeting ice as the 550-plus hp Camaro Z/28 conducts a late-season cold-weather test run.

Ford's European products have been finding their way to our shores during the past year, and today we've got the first evidence of another headed our way—the U.S. spec, 2012 Ford Grand C-Max!

The spy shooters at Brenda Priddy & Co. have reported sightings of several of these early "mule" vehicles around Metro Detroit. At first, they assumed the vehicle pictured was just the updated Mondeo with camouflage left on. While it's not unusual to see foreign-market cars in Detroit, the shooters did find it odd to see at least a dozen of these test cars undergoing lots of testing from the engineers in Detroit. When Priddy's team asked their Ford contacts what the car was, they received an answer along the lines of "you know the next Fusion, MKX and Mondeo are moving to one global chassis, right?"

Last time the shooters at Brenda Priddy & Co. set their sights on Ford's Fiesta-based CUV undergoing tests, it was winding its way up the mountains in Europe. Here are some shots of the small CUV riding the roads in Southeast Michigan.

With the Chrysler 200 sedan just starting to roll out, Chrysler engineers have started working on the next variant—the 200 convertible. Spy shooter Brenda Priddy and her team snagged these photos of a soft-top 200 prototype out for a very brisk test run.

SEMA manufacturing members are invited to get up close with the Juke, Nissan's all-new crossover. This compact ride features a 1.6L 4-cyl. Direct Injection Gasoline (DIG) turbo engine that packs 188 hp at 5,600 rpm. SEMA manufacturing members can take the tape to the new Juke on December 8, from 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. (PST), in Diamond Bar, California.

The spy-shooting sleuths at Brenda Priddy & Co. recently captured shots of VW's new sedan out for a late-season, desert-testing run. Referred to as the NMS (as in “new midsize sedan”), this new car will fit in after the Jetta in VW’s lineup, but Priddy is not sure if it will replace the Passat, be named Passat in the States or be in addition to the new Passat. However, Priddy believes that based on what she saw, the car will replace the Passat here in North America because they are simply too similar in size to warrant both cars.

We're used to seeing lots of Mercedes, BMW and Audi test cars on the Nurburgring, but today we've caught something a little different and much more bizarre-looking!