April 4th, 2012 |
Filed under: New York Auto Show, Convertible, Performance, Jaguar
Remember the stunning Jaguar C-X16 concept that debuted at last year’s Frankfurt Motor Show? Guess what, kids – it’s coming to production. Well, sort of.
Jaguar has officially announced that a new entry-level sports car will come to market next year and that it will indeed carry...
April 4th, 2012 |
Filed under: New York Auto Show, Convertible, Performance, Jaguar
Remember the stunning Jaguar C-X16 concept that debuted at last year’s Frankfurt Motor Show? Guess what, kids – it’s coming to production. Well, sort of.
Jaguar has officially announced that a new entry-level sports car will come to market next year and that it will indeed carry...
January 18th, 2012 |
Filed under: Budget, Etc., Europe, Crossover, Hatchback, Volkswagen
Images of a five-door version of the Volkswagen Up! have surfaced courtesy of a European patent office. The German automaker confirmed a five-door version of the pint-sized vehicle was headed to market, and Volkswagen even went so far as to show off the Cross Up! Concept at the Frankfurt Motor...
December 22nd, 2011 |
Filed under: Budget, Hatchback, Volkswagen, First Drives
VW Finally Rediscovers Its (Very) Small Car Roots
Big old Volkswagen is back to thinking small, and it’s finally doing it right. After two frankly awful attempts at supplying the rest of the world with cheap tin boxes called Fox and Lupo, company bosses have done some soul searching and this is the...
December 16th, 2011 |
Filed under: Car Buying, Frankfurt Motor Show, Performance, China, Crossover, Beijing Motor Show, Luxury, MISC
Even if Eterniti Motors hasn’t exactly made its Hemera SUV beautiful, it has kept it on a consistently delivered timeline. The boutique British company showed off the Hemera, it’s Cayenne-Turbo-S-based “SUV meets BMW M5” at the...
November 2nd, 2011 |
Filed under: Concept Cars, Frankfurt Motor Show, Performance, Hatchback, Volkswagen
As small as the car is itself, Volkswagen wanted to ensure its Up! city car would make a big impact when it lifted the veil on the production model at the Frankfurt Motor Show. So along with the basic three-door hatch, the German automaker also brought out a series of concept...
October 11th, 2011 |
Filed under: Concept Cars, Frankfurt Motor Show, Motorsports, Crossover, Infiniti, Nissan, Rumormill, Luxury
Running a luxury brand used to be simple. Tart up a few mass-market sedans with leather interiors and power accessories, slap on a big hood ornament, jack the price through the roof, then sit back and watch the gravy train flow. These days it couldn’t...
October 6th, 2011 |
Filed under: Concept Cars, Sedan, Performance, Etc., Kia, Luxury
AutoExpress recently took the time to sit down with Kia design guru Peter Schreyer for a chat about the company’s GT Concept that debuted at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show. Schreyer is understandably keen to bring the front-engine, rear-wheel-drive sedan to market, though he isn’t...
October 3rd, 2011 |
Filed under: Concept Cars, Frankfurt Motor Show, Convertible, Volkswagen, Off-Road
Typically an automaker releases information on its latest concept cars in the days and weeks running up to the auto show where it’s set to be unveiled. But when we got to Frankfurt this year, Volkswagen had a few surprises up its sleeve that were neither previewed beforehand...
October 3rd, 2011 |
Filed under: Concept Cars, Budget, Hatchback, Volkswagen
For this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show, Volkswagen was bent on making a splash with the production version of its long-anticipated Up! city car. But at an expo packed with countless exciting supercars on display, a humble vehicle like the Up! could easily have been overshadowed. So VW didn’t...