Check Out 5 Volkswagen Up! Concepts – 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show
VW introduced 5 separate Volkswagen Up! compact concepts at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany. Each vehicle is based on a VW production car that will rival Scion’s iQ and the Smart fortwo next year. As companies continue to grow, their vehicles are shrinking world wide. Finally, auto makers are taking urbanization and gentrification into account when building cars for the public.
First is the e-up! – which is an all electric variant of the compact city car that Volkswagen will start to build for a mass audience in 2013.
Not to be mistaken with e-up! is eco-up! This vehicle combines “ecofuel” also known as natural gas, and the start/stop BlueMotion Technology from VW, making it one of the greenest cars on the market.
The GT up! is a more powerful GTI variant, able to produce 99 horsepower, and weighs a slight 1984 lbs.
Volkswagen also showed off a four-door / crossover up! at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. VW has teased us with a production version, that may hit dealership lots in two years.
Finally, there’s the up! “azzurra sailing team” edition (yes, in all lower case) – created by Italian designers Giorgetto Giugiaro and Walter de Silva. This compact vehicle has a “nautical-theme” complete with drop-top convertible and lighter paint scheme.
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