Last week Volkswagen lit up the Frankfurt Motor Sshow with a series of six advanced-tech Up! pre-production and concept models.
The Up! microcar is meant to be frugal and small, but no one said it has to be boring or uninspired.
Following are briefs on the production cars, plus a couple of way-out models we can only hope VW will change up its plans and decide to build.
Last month, Volkswagen made waves by announcing that its ambitious One-Liter project would in fact lead to the release of a plug-in hybrid with 261-mpg fuel economy by 2013. VW had long maintained that the program would never produce a consumer vehicle but would instead act as a source of inspiration for cars that might yield fuel economy in the 100-mpg range. Now, according to a pair of recent reports by Autocar, two of those vehicles are headed to market: the first being the VW Up! Blue-e-motion hybrid; the other a future incarnation of the Golf scheduled for release in 2020.
