2017 Frankfurt Motor Show
IMSA RXR One Is an AMG GT Supercar With 860 HP and Crazy Aero
19 Oct 2017, 20:14 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / This one slipped under our radar for a couple of months, but you tuning fans are probably not going to mind seeing this crazy AMG GT. It's made by a company called IMSA and debuted at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show. While the RXR One is obvi...
2018 VW Polo GTI Specs: 200 HP, 320 NM, 0 to 100 KM/H in 6.7 Seconds
18 Sep 2017, 15:59 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen is dumping billions into EV development, but the thing they are best at is still putting turbocharged engines into hatchbacks. And we can think of no Vdub more exciting this month than the new Polo GTI. It was presented during VW Nigh...
Volkswagen Doubles Up on Autonomous Cars: Street Ready by 2021
18 Sep 2017, 11:56 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Volkswagen is one of the companies that have gone through the hastiest of transformations. Think about what it was doing two and a half years ago, and look at it now. If today's Volkswagen were to meet with pre-September 2015 Volkswagen, th...
2018 Toyota Auris Touring Sports Freestyle Is A Wagon With An Identity Crisis
16 Sep 2017, 17:09 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Auris Touring Sports Freestyle. What does this moniker tell you? For starters, Auris is the European way of saying Corolla hatchback. Touring stands for station wagon, Sports for something Toyota can only dream about, and Freestyle? Well, the latte...
BMW Official Takes Aim At Mercedes-Benz X-Class, BMW Pickup Under Consideration
15 Sep 2017, 12:26 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Steel wheels. Halogen lights. Manual transmission. Cheap plastic. Nissan switchgear. Navara NP300 platform. There are plenty of reasons the Mercedes-Benz X-Class isn’t the premium pickup the three-pointed star promised it would be. Discerning...
Former BMW Designer Chris Bangle Lets Rip at Today's Boring Automotive Styling
15 Sep 2017, 09:26 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Chris Bangle worked 17 years for BMW, some of which were spent as the head of the design department. Some of the Bavarian manufacturer's most controversial models came out during that period, including the X6 coupe SAV and the 5 Series E60/61,...
Girls of the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show
14 Sep 2017, 17:21 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Many car manufacturers decided to skip this year's edition of the Frankfurt Motor Show. This didn't have a negative effect on a number of cool cars we checked out, but it did mean there were fewer sexy girls at the various stands. 2017...
Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 Cabriolet Is a Staple Of Luxury at IAA 2017
14 Sep 2017, 15:58 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Of all the concept cars exhibited at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show, two stand out for their elegance. On the one hand, there’s the Jaguar E-Type Zero, an old-timer with an all-electric powertrain. On the other hand, Mercedes-Maybach showed up...
Wey XEV Concept Has the Rear of a Baboon
14 Sep 2017, 15:53 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Apart from electric vehicles, the other thing that this year's Frankfurt Motor Show had in spades was Chinese SUVs - some of them, indeed, having electric powertrains as well. There is no doubt that the Asian manufacturers have set their s...
Euro-spec 2018 Honda CR-V Abandons Diesel for Hybrid Engine
14 Sep 2017, 15:07 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / They call it a prototype, but only because you can't see the interior - this is the all-new 2018 Honda CR-V for the European market. It's going to have a year-long delay over the U.S. version, but that's because engineers have had to...
Land Rover Discovery SVX Looks Out of Place on the Flat Frankfurt Floor
14 Sep 2017, 15:02 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / A lot of people felt the new Land Rover Discovery had lost its edge, turning from a robust SUV with no-nonsense looks into a posh soccer-mom-mobil that spends way too many hours in front of the mirror plucking its eyebrows. And, just by looking ...
Mercedes-AMG Goes Exclusive With G63 And G65 At IAA 2017
14 Sep 2017, 14:37 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / While the Maybach-branded G650 Landaulet may be the most opulent of the G-Class family, the G63 and G65 Exclusive are the models that indirectly pave the way for the next-generation model. Until the W464 goes official in 2018, the three-pointed sta...
Maserati Quattroporte and Ghibli Show Their Plastic Surgeries in Frankfurt
14 Sep 2017, 14:25 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Like all luxury brands, Maserati has to rely a lot on the design of its models. These are not cars bought for their practicality, just like you don't buy a Longines watch because you need to know the time. They are status symbols, and status s...
2018 Mercedes-Benz X-Class is Like a Caveman in an Expensive Suit at IAA
14 Sep 2017, 14:03 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Not counting some older versions of the G-Class or the mighty G63 AMG 6x6, Mercedes-Benz hasn't really been into civilian pickup trucks over the years. From most perspectives, the X-Class is actually the first of its kind, and Mercede...
BMW i8 Protonic Frozen Yellow Edition Is Yellow, Not Sure about Protonic
14 Sep 2017, 12:10 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The i8 was the first BMW to wear the "i" badge, and by no means was it a bad start for the Bavarians' newly founded division. The i8 showed the other side of what a hybrid drivetrain than the one the Toyota Prius had gotten us used t...
2018 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe/Cabriolet Show Off OLED Taillights In Frankfurt
14 Sep 2017, 11:47 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Based on the W222, the S-Class Coupe and S-Class Cabriolet have gone through the mid-cycle nip and tuck. Shown at the IAA 2017 in Frankfurt, the most distinct change brought by the facelift is easily observable at the rear end. OLED taillights,...
Startech Brings Opulently Tuned SUVs To The 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show
14 Sep 2017, 10:01 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Tuning is big business since, well, a long time ago. Nowadays, the aftermarket scene covers all echelons of the automotive industry, including the luxury SUV segment. That’s what Startech is all about, and rather unsurprisingly, the German tu...
Volkswagen to Invest a Staggering $84 Billion in EV Development
14 Sep 2017, 09:46 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The Volkswagen Group may have tilted the already skewed balance between liquid hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and battery-powered electric vehicles in favor of the latter by announcing a massive investment for its emerging I.D. brand. It will be ye...
Toyota C-HR Hy-Power Concept Previews High-Performance Hybrid Vehicles
14 Sep 2017, 08:04 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / At the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show, Toyota announced that it plans to provide core models with a choice of two hybrid powertrains. Names haven’t been given, only the promise that details will be revealed in early. Oh, and by the way, the concep...
Hyundai i30 Fastback Is Not a Mustang in Frankfurt
13 Sep 2017, 21:10 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / When Hyundai announced the i30 Fastback a while back, everybody immediately thought of the classic Mustangs. But now that we got to look at the thing, we wish the Koreans hadn't bothered making it. In many ways, this project reminds us of t...