The best supercars at the Frankfurt Motor Show 2013 on video

The Frankfurt Motor Show 2013 was awash with supercars of every type and hue. And there was change afoot. Sports cars are finally catching up with the changing zeitgeist - and a new breed of exotica emerged at the Frankfurt exhibition in September 2013.

Some of the new supercars use electric power to assuage the guilt but still add grunt; others favoured diesel power - hitherto unknown in the supercar arena - while others went down the lightweight route to pare mass for extra performance.

Yet we still saw the requisite attention-grabbing supercar stunts - after all, drama is everything at this level of the market, where you're writing cheques for £200,000 and more. There were high-revving old-school V8s, active aerodynamics and outrageous bodywork to make schoolboys' jaws drop to the floor, in the best time-honoured supercar tradition.

See all the supercars of the Frankfurt Motor Show 2013 here in MSN Cars' new video. Managing editor Tim Pollard is your guide to the high-performance supercars that made their world debuts at the world's biggest motor show.

There's everything from the new BMW i8 and Porsche 918 Spyder, the Italian duo of Ferrari 458 Speciale and Lamborghini Gallardo Squadra Corse, with a curveball Audi supercar crossover - the Nanuk - and a plucky Brit, the new Aston Martin Vanquish Volante, thrown in for good measure.

For more comprehensive coverage from the Frankfurt Motor Show, visit MSN's Frankfurt homepage here.

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Ferrari 458 Speciale at the Frankfurt Motor Show
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Aston Martin Vanquish Volante at the Frankfurt Motor Show
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By Tim Pollard, managing editor, MSN Cars