Frankfurt Auto Show

  • 2014 BMW i3 concept live photos, 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show

    The BMW i3's bigger brother the i8 may get all the attention from sports car fans, but as the smaller and more practical of the "i" range the i3 could be considered the more relevant of the two. We were at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show ready to capture both i-cars in all their glory. You can find the 2014 BMW i8's live photo gallery by clicking here, but stick on this page for more on the i3 2014 BMW i3 battery electric urban minicar Think compact, rear-engined city car and the Smart Fortwo might be the first vehicle to come to mind, but the i3 is both bigger (offering four seats) and even...

  • BMW i8 Concept live photos, 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show
    2014 BMW i8 Live Photos: 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show

    BMW has taken a radical departure from its traditional brand of teutonic sedans with its "i" range. The i3 is a carbon-bodied electric city car and the i8 a plug-in hybrid sports coupe, and both display wild styling and high-tech features. We were at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show to get a closer...

  • Kia Rio Ecodynamics live photos, 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show
    Kia Rio Ecodynamics: Forbidden Fruit At 2011 Frankfurt Show

    For fans of ultra-economical vehicles living in the United States, life just isn't fair sometimes. While the European market gets to play with dozens of high MPG turbodiesels, we're often told to make do with small capacity gasoline engines that don't come close to matching diesel, even if they're...

  • 2011 Volkswagen Nils concept live photos, 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show
    Volkswagen Nils Electric Car Concept: Frankfurt Live Photos

    Two weeks ago we brought you images of the Volkswagen Nils electric car concept to be revealed at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. The car has now been unveiled and Green Car Reports can bring you a full gallery of Volkswagen's smallest electric car concept to date. The Nils looks very similar to the...

  • Mia Electric microbus
    2012 Mia Electric Microbus: First Drive Report

    Sometimes a clever inventor or a team of engineers changes the way we think about an appliance or a concept we’ve lived with for years -- producing a revolutionary new design that makes us wonder how we ever lived without it. But sometimes a supposed revolutionary new design is little more...

  • 2015 Infiniti electric luxury sedan teaser sketch
    Infiniti: We’ll Have An All-Electric Sedan Ready For 2015

    Infiniti -- the luxury sister brand of Nissan -- has been joining in the electric car hype at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show with talk of an all-electric subcompact car it will have ready for sometime in 2014. This isn’t the first time Infiniti has talked electric cars. Last year, Infiniti boss...

  • 2011 Brabus High Performance 4WD Full Electric concept car

    This year’s 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show has been heavily dominated by the drive towards greener vehicles, better gas mileage, and zero tailpipe-emissions motoring. So it’s no surprise that German tuning house Brabus has followed the trend set by most of the major automakers attending the show -- developing an all-electric, all-wheel drive version of the 2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Sedan which it plans to produce in small numbers sometime soon. With four in-wheel electric motors producing a combined 320 kilowatts of power and a claimed 2,360 pound-feet of torque, the all-wheel drive...

  • 2011 Smart forvision concept
    Smart Forvision Electric Car Concept: Frankfurt Live Photos

    While Smart used the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show to release its new, upgraded Fortwo Electric Drive and the production Smart eBike, the new Forvision concept previewed a few weeks ago gives us an idea what the next generation Fortwo might look like. Still a Smart... Importantly, the Forvision is...

  • 2012 smart fortwo electric drive, 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show
    2012 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive: Frankfurt Auto Show

    The problems with the old Smart Fortwo Electric Drive were fairly easy to work out. It was too slow, had only an average range, took too long to charge and it was too expensive - even when leasing. Smart has taken the car back to the drawing board and fixed all these issues - and given the car a...

  • Opel Rak E concept car, Frankfurt Motor Show, September 2011
    2011 Frankfurt Auto Show: Opel RAK e Electric Concept

    At this year’s Frankfurt Auto Show there’s a very clear theme among concept cars: ultra-small urban runabouts. Now Opel -- the European arm of General Motors -- has joined Audi, Volkswagen, Smart and many others with its own take on a lightweight electric-powered urban runabout. Called...

  • 2011 Land Rover DC100 and DC100 Sport Concepts
    Land Rover DC100, DC100 Sport Concepts: 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show

    Land Rover has officially revealed its DC100 Concepts—which show the essentially elements of the next (2015) Land Rover Defender

  • Volkswagen Cross-up! five door live photos, 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show
    2011 Frankfurt Auto Show: 2012 Volkswagen Up Family Gallery

    Volkswagen has been working hard on the Up minicar since it first debuted at the 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show, but it has finally unveiled the production version of its gasoline-sipping city car at this year's 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show along with a whole family of concepts based on its tiny frame. The...

  • 2013 Fisker Surf, Frankfurt Motor Show, September 2011

    The 2012 Fisker Karma extended range electric car (plug-in hybrid) may have been sold on its sexy good looks, and sporty performance -- but now the luxury sedan has a more practical sibling -- the Fisker Surf. Unveiled today at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, the 2013 Fisker Surf is a crossover wagon variant of the luxury sports sedan. Based on the Karma, the Surf shares the same chassis and powertrain as the $95,900+ sedan but replaces the Karma’s sleek rear with a more practical wagon roofline and hatch. Performance-wise, the Surf is almost identical to the Karma, with a top speed in...

  • 2013 Lexus GS 450h
    2013 Lexus GS 450h Luxury Hybrid Debuts In Frankfurt

    Lexus is showing an all-new 2013 GS 45h hybrid luxury sport sedan at the upcoming Frankfurt Auto Show

  • Volkswagen up! production version
    Compact, Fuel-Efficient Cars Grab Frankfurt Spotlight

    Instead of outdoing each other with more mass and more horsepower, the focus at teh upcoming Frankfurt Auto Show seems to be on better fuel economy and more technology for the dollar.

  • 2011 Volvo Concept You teaser
    2011 Volvo Concept You Will Debut At Frankfurt Auto Show

    We've got used to carmakers using the letter "i" to describe their products, but isn't that a little selfish? Volvo clearly thinks so which is why its latest design study, due at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, is called the Concept You. The unusual name comes from the Swedish maker's new brand...

  • 2011 Audi A2 Concept
    2011 Audi A2 Electric Car Concept: New Info, Images

    Late last week Audi released some teaser sketches of its A2 concept car due at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, now less than a week away. Due to be positioned between the A1 minicar and upcoming Audi A3 Sedan compact car, the new A2 is spiritual successor to the original A2, an aluminum-bodied...

  • 2011 Volkswagen Nils single-seat electric car concept
    2011 Frankfurt Auto Show: Full Electric Car Preview

    We thought the 2011 Geneva Motor Show was one of the best ever for electric cars and green vehicles, but the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, starting in less than a week, is shaping up to be even better. We'll be covering the show in-depth next week, but in the meantime we've rounded up all the electric...

  • 2011 Audi A2 Concept

    With the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show less than two weeks away the German auto industry is starting to really crank out the concept cars. Latest in the onslaught of new German metal is the Audi A2 concept. If you think the name sounds familiar then you aren't wrong. Audi launched a production A2 subcompact back in 1999. It was never sold in the U.S. and sales were slow in Europe thanks to a relatively high price, but technologically it was far ahead of its competitors and in many respects, still is today. With a lightweight and incredibly aerodynamic aluminum body and small, economical engines...

  • 2011 Volkswagen Nils single-seat electric car concept
    2011 Frankfurt Auto Show Preview: VW Nils Electric Concept (BREAKING)

    Two weeks ago, we heard a rumor that German automaker Volkswagen was planning on unveiling an all-electric single-seat urban car at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. A few days later, we were offered a chance to be among the very first to get a glimpse of Volkswagen’s ultra-compact urban concept...

  • 2011 Smart Forvision Concept
    2011 Smart ForVision Electric Concept: 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show Preview

    A few weeks ago we told you about the third generation Smart ForTwo Electric Drive which was due to be unveiled at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. With a faster top speed, better range and ultra-fast 1 hour recharge capability, the new version of the diminutive city car should hit the roads next year...

  • Audi Urban Concept renderings
    Audi Reveals More Urban Concept Pics Ahead Of Frankfurt Show

    It seems that Audi just can't contain itself with its latest concept cars, the two-seater Urban Concepts. Three weeks ago some spy videos trickled onto the internet showing the camoflaged electric car being driven around in the center of Berlin. The very next day Audi revealed its first sketches of...

  • Volkswagen XL1 Concept
    Will VW Unveil An Electric Single-Seat Urban Car In Frankfurt?

    We’re just a few weeks away from the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show, and already know about some of the electric and plug-in cars that are due to be unveiled there. But a report from The Financial Times hints that Volkswagen could be preparing an as-yet undheard of single-seat urban electric car to...

  • Volkswagen up! production version
    Volkswagen Up Minicar Revealed, 3-Cylinder Engines, 56 MPG

    Volkswagen has been teasing us with concept versions of its Up minicar since the Frankfurt Auto Show in 2007, but finally the production version has been revealed and will make its debut at Frankfurt again in September. The Up (which VW spells "up!") is part of Volkswagen's drive towards greater...

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