10 cars we're looking forward to in 2024

1. 2024 Aston Martin Vantage

For Aston Martin, 2023 was the year of the DB12, but we also saw the beginnings of a revolution for the company. With an all-new face and cabin, the DB12 proved a delight. So what’s the next model in the line-up to receive the same treatment? We have it on good authority it’ll be the Vantage. Prototypes have been out and about all over the shop, while Aston has been very open about the new Vantage race cars coming for next year’s season. So the new Vantage road car is all but a dead cert. So what can we expect? Well, beyond a new face, probably a comprehensively overhauled cabin and some more polished dynamics from a similar chassis, engine and transmission to the existing car. Evolution rather than revolution has ever been the Aston way, and that’s no bad thing.

2. 2024 BMW M2 CS

The BMW M2 arrived with some fanfare this year as what is likely to be the last rear-driven, straight-six, manual M car. In other words, the last traditional M car in the footsteps of the last M2s, the 1M, the E46 M3 and beyond. We also know from M these days that the first version that breaks cover might not be the one to spring for. Wait for those evocative letters, 'CS', to grace its sculpted rump. As much should happen next year, when we expect the M2 CS to break cover. It’ll be a bit more powerful, a bit lighter and have a bit more of a polished chassis. We like.

3. 2024 Renault 5

Renault’s reborn icon has been on the boil for the last couple of years. We saw Alpine’s A290_β Concept previewing the hot version, but we’re most excited for the standard car. Why? Because it’s a genuinely stylish and appealing retro-influenced car that isn’t a Mini or a Fiat 500. Nothing’s come around to face them over the last few years until the Renault 5. It looks so good and with Renault’s extensive experience in electrification, it ought to give the likes of the Peugeot e-208 and new electric Mini something to think about in terms of charging and range. I love my V8s, but I desperately want one of these as a daily.

4. 2024 Polestar 5

Further up the EV pecking order, a fight is brewing in the fast electric saloon arena. The Porsche Taycan, Audi E-Tron GT and Tesla Model S have been battling it out for a couple of years. This year, the Lotus Emeya got involved and next year, its cousin, the Polestar 5, is jumping in. Previewed initially by the stunning Precept Concept, the Polestar 5 looks like a proper – albeit four-door – successor to the stunning Polestar 1. Low and wide with clean-cut chiselled Scandinavian looks, you best believe it’ll have performance to match the design. Reports so far suggest a dual-motor powertrain offering more than 800PS (588kW). Oh yes.

5. 2024 BMW M5 Touring

We love estate cars and we love BMW M cars, so we adore the M3 Touring. So yes, we’re excited for the bigger, faster M5 Touring that’s confirmed to be arriving next year. This one is a little more complicated than the M3, given it’ll be a hybrid. Yes, the twin-turbo V8 will carry over in some form but it will be augmented by electric power of some description, for up to 800PS (588kW). See – or rather read, to save your eyes – the XM. The latest 5 Series is hot off the press and the 5 Series Touring, as we’ve recently covered, isn’t quite revealed. Meanwhile, the M5 is yet to be unveiled, so the M5 Touring ought to be a ways off. But we’re fairly confident all 5 Series variants – including the full M cars – will be with us by the end of next year.

6. 2024 Toyota Supra GRMN

The A90 Toyota Supra has been with us for three years now, if you can believe it. They’ve been tough years, with the masses ridiculing it for its BMW DNA and critics bemoaning a sportscar that didn’t quite add up. Since the very first drives, we’ve been wondering what Toyota could be capable of if it really let itself loose on this platform. Well, happily, a prototype Supra with a wing and some GR livery work has been spotted testing at the Nüburgring, possibly packing a full-on M engine. The Toyota Supra GRMN could be on the way, with well over 400PS (294kW) and a chassis tightened up to proper Toyota sportscar standards. 

7. 2024 Porsche 992.2

Speaking of proper sportscar standards, we’re now five years on from the launch of Porsche’s 992 911 and a year on (give or take) from the debut of the 992 GT3 RS. History tells us that the RS of one generation is very shortly followed by the Carrera of the next generation. We’re expecting to see sharpened-up, minimalist styling touches draped over the familiar 992 form. Underneath, we’re expecting hybridisation to appear sooner rather than later. Finally, of course, we’re expecting at some point, to see the GT2 badge return, though that’ll be a couple of years away at least. What we’re not one hundred per cent certain of, is whether the 992.2 will definitely arrive in 2024. It might be a little soon, but prototypes are out and about and expectations are of something before the end of next year.

8. 2024 Lamborghini Huracan replacement

Likewise the Lamborghini Huracan replacement is due within 12 months, too. Change is coming for the baby Lambo, with the next-gen car trading out its V10 for a bespoke Lamborghini twin-turbo V8 paired with the Revuelto’s hybrid system. Instead of sharing a platform with an Audi, this time and for the first time, this line of cars will share a version of the flagship’s platform, likely swapping out some carbon bits for alloy to reduce costs. It certainly looks interesting, with those hexagonal spotlights at the front and that massive central exhaust high up at the rear. The Revuelto is proving to be a great car, so we expect nothing less of this.

9. 2024 Ferrari 812 Successor

The Ferrari 812 debuted in March 2017. By next March, that’ll be seven years ago. Indeed, it’s very much up next as the model in need of a replacement, given the four-seater GT role has been taken by the Purosangue and the mid-engined Berlinetta has been hybridised in the 296. We know the next Ferrari super GT will keep the V12, though it’s not certain whether it’ll be a hybrid. Roma mules with V12s have been heard out and about so we would honestly expect a full reveal towards the second quarter of next year.

10. 2024 Ferrari F250

Somewhat less certain but one we’re extremely excited for, is Ferrari’s mysterious successor to the La Ferrari. Codenamed F250 (the LaF was F150 back in the day), it’s expected to divert away from the sleek V12 exotic it succeeds and move towards being a road-going caricature of Ferrari’s Le Mans-winning 499P Hypercar. We know it’s going to have lots of downforce, we know it’s V6-powered, we know it’ll be a hybrid… and that’s about it. A true Le Mans car for the road? Ferrari’s equivalent to a McLaren Senna or Aston Martin Valkyrie? All will be revealed before too long.

So those are the road cars we’re most excited to see in 2024 and beyond. Any we’ve missed? Let us know…