The LA Auto Show may be packed with all the new cars you'll be able to buy in showrooms next year, but that's not where the real action is. What we want to see are the concept cars, where companies give designers a bunch of money and say, "go make something awesome."

The cars we saw this year weren't too far out in their designs. Actually, you could almost picture any one of these rolling around ten years from now.

Check out the gallery below for the coolest cars we saw at this year's show. The pics are pretty big, so you may need to give the gallery a few extra seconds to load.