The craziest cars from the Frankfurt Motor Show

Frankfurt 2013 offered an automotive smorgasbord of technology, from out-there concepts like Vauxhall’s ‘condor-winged’ Monza to down to Earth next-gen production vehicles like Volkswagen’s e-Up! and e-Golf all-electric hatchback pairing. In the middle stood our next 10 cars. Eschewing the conventional and baulking at the orthodox, the manufacturers and tuners of the cars that made our list let loose out at Frankfurt – and boy was it great to see…

This is has to take the crown as the craziest car at the Frankfurt show – the Brabus B63 S 6x6. Unbelievably, this lavishly trimmed six-wheel drive monster off-roader is actually road legal, and given it weighs a whopping 3,775kg, it actually boasts respectable performance, too.

That’s because it’s powered by a 700hp 5.5-litre twin-turbo V8 engine, which kicking out 708lb ft of torque and driving all six wheels means it can hurl its considerable bulk from 0-62mph in just 7.4 seconds. That makes the Brabus as fast as an Abarth 595 Competizione, despite weighing over three times as much…

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MSN Cars at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show

By Sean Carson, contributor, MSN Cars