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Volkswagen didn't appear to take this year's LA auto show very seriously – its press kit appears to have been assembled by a kindergarten class on a budget. The car it unveiled here in the City of Angels was little more than a redressed version the van concept they showed in Tokyo, as well.

The space up! blue takes the up! space and adds a hydrogen-electric hybrid powerplant and a solar panel on the roof. Volkswagen says the van will go into production, in one form or another, but without the advanced powerplant. And likely without the solar roof, either. They're "Pie in the sky" as the Volkswagen board member called it. And so, we're back where we were in Tokyo (only with a cameo by former pro baller John "Spider" Salley). That being said, the car itself is a quirky take on the retro-modern theme that could prove popular with young, trendy families if VW has its way.

Click on the galleries below to check out live shots from the space up! blue's unveiling VW's original factory images. The press release has also been included after the jump. Sit down with a nice cup of tea and enjoy.

There've been a lot of cars we've said that look like they were built for Darth Vader, but the Audi RS4 sounds like it. At least that's what Ingolstadt alleges with this ad.

The commercial shows a Hollywood sound effects crew working with a black RS4 to get that just the sound they need for their latest movie. The kicker is, the sounds recorded aren't used in the movie for a car...

This isn't the first Audi ad that equates its cars with spaceships, either. Seems to be a popular theme in the brand's commercials, like something Audi this world. (Ba-dump ching-Ed.)

[Source: Motor Authority]

Johnny Green, a director with UK's Knucklehead Films, has made this 90-second commercial for the Audi A6. The result is something truly out of this world, showing a mysterious object falling from the sky over the American mid-west and plunging into the deep blue ocean.

The mind-boggling numbers quoted at the end reveal that Audi has actually filed more patents than NASA...for the new A6 alone.

The impressive and stylistic commercial is only the director's second, yet he manages to portray a thoroughly modern automobile in a retro-futuristic space-age style, all while achieving its purpose as a commercial advertisement by projecting a kind of ethereal desirability on the product. (Watch the clip, you'll see.)

[Source: Knucklehead via German Car Blog]