This truck and SUV thing won't let up, will it? This week General Motors announced it would lay off about 14,000 employees, a mix of white collar and factory workers, and it seems the strategy has a lot to do with the automaker's plans to get out of cars. Instead, it will pour money into electric and autonomous vehicle development. And while it waits for those technologies to become really real: more trucks and SUVs! They were all over this weeks LA Auto Show, too, in the form of Jeep's new pickup, Land Rover's new Evoque, and Rivian Automotive's all-electric truck.

Range Rover has unveiled its latest'green' compact luxury 4X4 with'X-Ray vision' that enable drivers to'see' through the bonnet to view what lies on beneath on the road below and'eyes in the back of its head' to show what's coming up behind. The new second-generation British-built Evoque off-roader is built with electrification and hybrid power in mind, and has a non-leather cloth option designed for vegetarians and vegans and made from recycled plastic bottles. Significantly, it features unique'ground view' technology that makes its bonnet'invisible' to the driver so he or she has a view of any rough or extreme terrain - or high city centre kerbs - that are lurking underneath or just ahead, but normally out of sight. The firm said its ClearSight Ground View technology marks'a world first' for the compact luxury 4X4 which is powered by a range of mild-hybrid petrol and diesel engines, with a plug in hybrid to follow next year and the potential for a fully electric version. Range Rover has unveiled its latest'green' compact luxury 4X4 with'X-Ray vision' that enable drivers to'see' through the bonnet to view what lies on beneath on the road below Significantly, it features unique'ground view' technology that makes its bonnet'invisible' to the driver so he or she has a view of any rough or extreme terrain - or high city centre kerbs - that are lurking underneath or just ahead, but normally out of sight The new all-seeing Evoque was unveiled at a star-studded international launch at the Old Truman Brewery in East London's trendy Brick Lane where fashion and Vogue cover model Adwoa Aboah was to appear wearing a dress made out of the very same Kvadrat material made from recycled plastic bottles.