The 13 Hottest New Cars For 2016

It looks like 2016 is shaping up to be another banner year for the auto business. Not only are sales expected to remain healthy – provided gas prices and interest rates don’t rise up to land a one-two sucker punch to the industry’s jaw in the months ahead – there’s a worthy slew of brand new and fully redesigned models on the way to help lure shoppers into dealers’ showrooms.

By our count there’s at least 40 new and refreshed vehicles coming for 2016. Here, we’re featuring a baker’s dozen of the most significant passenger cars in the accompanying slideshow to debut in the months ahead, including sedans, coupes and convertibles.

Among this rich harvest of fresh-picked cars coming to market is an impressive assortment of both racy and luxurious models, with each designed to stir the senses, but using somewhat different spoons.

For starters, Acura resurrects the low-slung NSX sports car for 2016 after an 11-year absence, and reinvents it as a high-tech gas/electric hybrid that promises neck-snapping performance and head-turning good looks. Those on more modest budgets will find likewise a plethora of affordable new small cars and family sedans, including two new models from Toyota’s youthful Scion division with alphabet-soup names, the subcompact iA sedan and the compact iM hatchback.