Frankfurt Auto Show
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Next year Porsche celebrates the 50th anniversary of its iconic 911, and to mark the occasion the sports car manufacturer is readying something special. It was at the 1963 Frankfurt Auto Show that the first 911 appeared, originally as a concept and with a 901 designation. After a quick name change following an argument with France’s Peugeot, which claimed only it had the right to use car names made up of three numbers with the middle one being a zero, the then renamed 911 eventually entered production a year after its Frankfurt debut. Speaking with Car Sales recently, Porsche’s...
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Lamborghini: We'll Confirm Third Model Within Weeks
Lamborghini will decide by the "beginning of next year" on what form its third model will take--whether it's a sedan, an SUV or something entirely unexpected. The resulting vehicle will not be on sale before 2016, says CEO Stephan Winkelmann. A concept car in advance of the new vehicle seems a...
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Subaru Impreza XV Will Come To U.S. For 2013: Exclusive
For 2012, the Subaru Outback Sport model has been retired, replaced by a new Impreza Sport model that combines a specific set of options. But Motor Authority has learned that for 2013, the Subaru XV model unveiled two weeks ago at the Frankfurt Motor Show will come to the States--although not under...
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GreenSight City: Daimler's Green Sim City Coming To Facebook
Urban planning games are nothing new - the seminal Sim City title has been around since 1989 and we've probably been playing it all that time. Facebook games are a more recent phenomenon and you've probably heard of Car Town, the best of the bunch for gearheads. "GreenSight City" looks like...
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Smart Brings Back Gaming Classic Pong... With Two Fortwos!
All the attention on Smart at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show might have been directed at the Forvision electric drive concept and the latest, third-generation 2012 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive, but Smart still had a use for the previous version. Nestled next to a Ford driving experience was "Smart...
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Rimac Concept One electric supercar: 2011 Frankfurt auto show
There’s no shortage of unknown companies announcing plans for ridiculously powered electric supercars, but few, if any, actually turn up at international auto shows to show off their wares. Croatian firm Rimac Automobili is one of these companies working on a new electric supercar project...
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Late last month a cryptic message was announced by London-based Eterniti Motors, which said a new luxury automotive brand was coming and that a concept of its first model will be unveiled at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. This week, in Frankfurt, the new 2011 Eterniti Hemera Concept was unveiled. Eterniti describes itself as an independent, boutique British luxury brand, uniquely based in London. The automaker aims to satisfy a growing demand for additional luxury, personalized specifications and exclusivity among car buyers. The sudden spike in interest in such models is due to strong demand...
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2012 Audi RS5 Preview
The 2012 Audi RS5 is almost here, and luckily for us U.S. fans Audi’s uber-coupe will launch in facelifted form. This latest version of the RS5 made its official debut this week at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, bringing with it all the latest updates we saw introduced on the 2012 Audi A5...
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Ferrari Launches Tailor-Made Program At 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show
Although we first heard about Ferrari’s latest ‘Tailor-Made Program’ back in July, the Italian supercar marque waited until this week’s 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show to formally announce it. In Frankfurt Ferrari had a dedicated stand for the Tailor-Made Program, with several...
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Infiniti, Mercedes-Benz Announce Platform Sharing For Etherea-Based Crossover
The partnership between Renault-Nissan and Daimler will bear its first major fruit in 2014. Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan, has announced Infiniti will base an upcoming luxury compact on a Mercedes-Benz platform. Nissan and Daimler made their partnership official last April, stating at the...
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Maybach Highlights Personalization With Its Edition 125!
Maybach wants customers to know that the range of available personalization is limited only by imagination and budget, so they've created the one-off Edition 125! to highlight this.
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2013 Maserati Kubang: Coming Back Home To Detroit
The made-in-Detroit Maserati Kubang will be more than Maserati's first sport-utility vehicle, and a stunning one at that; it will also mark an impressive fusion of engineering resources between Chrysler Group and Fiat SpA.
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Sporting nearly as much carbon fiber as your average F1 car, the BMW i3 Concept isn't a world-burning super sports car, or even a punchy performance hatch that fights above its weight. It's born and bred for the city, with an emphasis on efficiency and compact size that prompted the development team to call it the Megacity Vehicle. Powered by a 167-horsepower electric motor on the rear axle and good for 93 miles of range, it has the key vitals of a great urban runabout that's up for the occasional longer haul. It gets its good range despite having so much available power by being light, which...
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BMW i8 Concept Live Photos: 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show
We still have a little over two years to wait until the BMW i8 makes its production debut, and from the looks of the i8 Concept, it's going to be an anxious wait. Building on the core design of the Vision EfficientDynamics concept revealed at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show, the BMW i8 Concept is a...
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Ford Evos Concept Live Photos: 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show
A plug-in hybrid sports coupe from Ford? That's the Evos Concept, and though it's a front-driver, the design is sleek, modern and clean, and it's serving as a preview of the future of Ford's Kinetic design theme. It's also a look into the near-ish future of Ford powertrains, airing a...
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Aston Martin V12 Zagato Design, Engineering In Detail: Video
Live from the floor of the Frankfurt Auto Show, Aston Martin director of design Marek Reichman and product development director Ian Minards talk in detail about the V12 Zagato, its prototype history, and the design and engineering that go into it. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the V12 Zagato shares some...
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2012 Porsche 911 Live Photos: 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show
The 2012 Porsche 911 is one of the most important new cars on the show stands at Frankfurt 2011, and it's clear from the space devoted to it at the massive VW pavilion, the company is devoted to playing up the new "991" sportscar. There's much new technology in the new 911, not the least of which...
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2011 Frankfurt Auto Show: Nokia Merges Cars & Cell Phones
Last spring, we told you about Terminal Mode, a new protocol being pushed by GM, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota, Volkswagen, and other automakers, as well as handset manufacturer Nokia. Terminal Mode (now known as MirrorLink) promises to make smartphone integration in cars much easier, and during this...
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Earlier this week, start-up automaker Fisker released the first preview details on its 2013 Surf hatchback. Now, thanks to the wonders of German organizational excellence and the crafty use of Canon equipment, we've got live photos to show you, and a few details on Fisker's here and now. The Surf hatchback is a derivative of the first vehicle the new American automaker will build. That Karma plug-in hybrid sedan has entered production--but the automaker is sitting on about 200 copies of the Karma that it can't yet deliver. Contract manufacturer Valmet has built the cars at its plant in...
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Kia GT concept debuts at 2011 Frankfurt auto show
We've shown you Kia's official photos of its lovely new GT concept, and now we're giving you the firsthand look we grabbed earlier today, in between mobs of photographers eager to capture the handsome new hatchback for themselves. Patterned after the rear-drive luxury grand tourers of the 1970s...
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Wiesmann Roadster MF3 Final Edition Live Photos: 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show
As we first reported a few weeks back, Wiesmann, the maker of the retro-styled MF series of roadsters and coupes, is ending production of its Roadster MF3, a car that has been around for the last 18 years. In honor of the milestone, Wiesmann has teamed up with fellow German firm Sieger, a...
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Ferrari 458 Spider Live Photos: 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show
The new Ferrari 458 Spider has flipped its lid in Frankfurt and we have a fresh batch of live photos of the stunning supercar. As you’ll recall from our previous post, this convertible version of the 458 Italia gets an automated folding roof made from aluminum, which only takes 14 seconds to...
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New Luxury Brand Eterniti Teases Upcoming Supercar
New luxury upstart Eterniti’s first model, the Hemera super-SUV, may look like a tarted up version of its donor vehicle, a Porsche Cayenne, but that won’t be the case for the brand’s future models. Along with the debut of the Hemera Concept at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show this...
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SsangYong XIV-1 Concept Live Photos: 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show
We already saw sketches of the 2011 SsangYong XIV-1 Concept ahead of its debut this week at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, but here are the first live photos of the compact crossover as well as all the info. The XIV-1 is a showcase for SsangYong’s design and engineering talents, with the main...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran