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Gallery: Lotus Evora GTE pics
A 345bhp new Lotus Exige and the most powerful Evora ever built: this is Lotus at the Frankfurt motor show...
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Audi vs Merc in DTM war
Two wide-bodied leviathans do battle in Frankfurt ahead of 2012 season debut…
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Did you think the city car business was a game? VW doesn't, and is actually quite serious about the new Up, which is why its put a serious amount of work into its new model. And it shows, because the Up is actually rather interesting indeed, as Ollie Marriage found out below.
Top Gear drives the new Volkswagen Up
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TG.com’s highlights from Frankfurt
Our handy roundup from the 2011 German auto jamboree. Does not contain mullets
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This is built for ‘extended city tours', fuelled by batteries and based on an LMP1-style cockpit with staggered 1+1 seating. Bonkers.
Frankfurt 2011: Audi Urban Concept
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More power, many more torques and aluminium bits set this Bentley GTC apart from the old one.
It'll cost £149,350 when it goes on sale, and, if the earlier model is anything to go by, will be rather tasty...
Frankfurt 2011: Bentley Continental GTC
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This is Peugeot's call-to-arms to the legions of family types yearning for an MPV that doesn't scream "I Have Long Since Given Up On Finding Joy In Life".
It's nearly as low, wide and long as a Lamborghini Aventador and features the coolest centre-row seating configuration we have seen for some time.
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Citroen's fun bus rolled into Frankfurt with PSA's Hybrid4 system underneath and a mad, bad body on top. This is rude, and precisely what we expected from the Gallic purveyors of zest.
Citroen told us it was a ground-up rethink of the MPV where "travel is more important than the destination", and we will tell you it needs to be made.
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Ford tells us the new four-litre, 247bhp ST is cleaner and more efficient than its predecessor. What we are really interested in however, is how a four-pot will sound compared to the old model's five-cylinder. Ford tells us they have tuned it mercilessly, comparing the old ST to Beethoven and the new one as Mozart...
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This isn't the new Capri, despite Internet rumblings telling you so. It is an early example of Ford's new design language, taking over from ‘Kinetic', as well as previewing some clever technology positing the car as your own personal assistant. We doubt the gullwing doors will make production, though.
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What happens when Volvo dreams up a new, full-size premium car with moderately derivate styling but overall appeal: this is the 'You'. Not you, but a ‘You'.
It's underpinned by something very technical, which you can read all about below, abbreviated to SPA. If you can correctly guess what that stands for before clicking the link, you win absolutely nothing but a mildly appreciative head nod.
Frankfurt 2011: Volvo Concept You
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Mercedes likes gullwing doors. It also likes sat nav systems operated using ‘intuitive hand gestures' and big luxury for people fond of transporting themselves and their limbs: meet the F125 concept.
It is a battery/hydrogen hybrid car, and you can read all about it below. There was also a police-liveried B-Class on Merc's stand, which we thought rather fetching. Sure beats the boys' attempts at Cop-mobiles...
Frankfurt 2011: Mercedes F125 Concept
Frankfurt 2011: Mercedes B-Class Police car
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And there you sat, gleefully chirruping your certainty that Lamborghini couldn't possibly make the Gallardo any harder or any more red. Obviously, you are wrong, and Lamborghini is right. The Gallardo LP570-4 Super Trofeo Stradale is lighter than a standard car and features a racing-spec carbon fibre rear wing capable of decapitating your gleeful chirrups of certainty.
Oh, and Lambo also took the opportunity to tell us the track-only Sesto Elemento concept will see a limited production run.
Frankfurt 2011: Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Super Trofeo Stradale
News: Lamborghini to build Sesto Elemento
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