Frankfurt motor show 2011 photo gallery

  The Volkswagen stand was absolutely rammed with metal. They've already shown the Polo R WRC car - but just look at it! Can't wait to see it on dirt from next year  Volkswagen showed the Nils - a vision for a single-seater commuter EV for future cities Inside the VW Nils Land Rover showed two concept cars  Upright, square, wheel on the back... could only be a Land Rover Land Rover DC100: sounds like a plane, one of the hits of Frankfurt   Land Rover showed a brace of concepts, both looking to the new Defender due in 2015.

Ford announces electric car plans at the Detroit auto show

Not to be left out of the electric car party, Ford announced Sunday at the Detroit Auto Show that it was developing a line of electric powered vehicles. In addition to its already announced hybrids and plug-in hybrids, Ford is working with Magna International to bring fully electric cars to market with lithium-ion battery packs. In the works is a Focus and Fusion-based vehicles that will be available in with all three powertrains.

Peugeot 208 GTi – the video

Peugeot keep interest in the 208 GTi with a promo video With the Peugeot 208 GTi due to debut at Geneva next week as a concept, Peugeot release the first promo video. There are high hopes for the new Peugeot 208 GTi, with Peugeot desperately hoping a performance halo for the 208 range will evoke memories of the terrific 205 GTi and filter down in to much bigger sales for more prosaic 208s. So to keep interest in the public debut of the 208 GTi next week, Peugeot has been busy cobbling together a promo video to show the new GTi blatting around – in and out of focus – so we don’t have chance to forget the 208 GTI is on its way.