2013 Frankfurt: Audi stuns with half-super-car/half-crossover Nanuk
Story and photos by John LeBlanc FRANKFURT – It’s rare these days to arrive at an auto show and be surprised, with automakers using the Internet to “leak” information well before the actual media days. But the Audi Nanuk Concept — a supercar/crossover — caught many in the industry off guard.
Toyota’s “race on Sunday, sell on Monday” hybrid strategy right on track
Story by John LeBlanc YPSILANTI, MICH. — The “race on Sunday, sell on Monday” strategy has been around since Henry Ford’s 999 racecars appeared at the dawn of the automotive industry in 1901. More than a century later, Japan’s Toyota is continuing that tradition with its latest TS030 racer, the first hybrid racecar to be […]
The Crank: Why a Kia will be the “hit” of this year’s Frankfurt show
By John LeBlanc If you’ve been following the teasers, leaks and previews of the auto show season’s kick-off event planned for Frankfurt next week, you know there’ll be a fleet of new and exciting concepts and coming-to-a-showroom-near-you production cars ready to be unvieled.
2009 Frankfurt: Lapping BMW’s booth in an Isetta. Seriuosly.
FRANKFURT, Germany – Okay. At 280 metres, it’s about 20,520 m shorter than the Nurbrgring’s Nordschleife circuit. But the nice people at BMW let me hitch a ride in some of the BMW museum rides they brought to the show on their indoor track. Like this Isetta. Enjoy.