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VW Unveils Production Version of Up! City Car
The production version of Volkswagen's up! small car has been officially revealed ahead of its world premiere at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The up!, which has been previewed by numerous concepts over the past few years, is a small city car measuring just 3.54 m long and 1.64 m wide. Unlike the concepts, however, the production version VW has abandoned the rear-engined, rear-drive layout in favor of a more conventional and predictably less costly to manufacture, front-engine, front-wheel drive setup.
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Porsche Confirms World Premiere Of Production 918 Spyder At Frankfurt Show
As anticipated but now officially confirmed, Porsche will hold the world premiere of the final series-production version of its all-new halo supercar, the 918 Spyder, at next week's Frankfurt Motor Show. The 918 Spyder is more or less a known quantity...
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Honda Ev-ster Concept To Spawn A Production Model
It looks like the retro-styled N Concept 4 city car won't be the only Honda study displayed at this month's Tokyo Motor Show that will end up going into production as the Japanese carmaker's CEO Takanobu Ito told German magazine Auto Motor...
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Bmw Drops 250 Photos Of The New And Possibly Last Rwd 1-series Hatchback
We have already seen and reported on the brand-new 2012 BMW 1-Series, which was revealed a couple of months ahead of its world premiere, which is scheduled for the rapidly approaching Frankfurt Motor Show this September. Nevertheless, if the first batch...
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Vw Group Confirms New Minicars For Vw, Seat And Skoda Brands
The Volkswagen Group has revealed that it will introduce a new family of small cars based on the Up! prototypes for the VW, Seat and Skoda brands. Europe's largest carmaker announced that it has also taken the decision to build all variants of the...
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Toyota Iq Mini Production Version To Make Geneva Debut
In a surprise announcement, Toyota revealed today that it will unveil the production ready version of its all-new small car, the iQ mini, at the Geneva Motor Show in March. First shown as the Concept Car iQ at last year’s Frankfurt Motor Show (click...
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