For the past few years the mantra has been ‘green, greener, greenest’ and this refrain will surely echo through the halls of the IAA, the Frankfurt Motor Show 2011. But the spirit of green cannot completely eradicate the traditional big horsepower engines. We take a look at a couple of the new sports car models to be unveiled this year at the IAA.
Tuned Porsche Cayennes seem to excite many auto fans – but just as many find the topic increasingly boring. But the clients of the leading Porsche tuners seem to have an unquenchable appetite for these versions. And now here’s the next pimped Porsche Turbo, the SpeedArt Titan-Evo-XL 600.
TechArt is conspicuously indulging in unrestrained performance fetishism… and we mean this as a compliment. Regardless of the model range it is above all the turbo-boosted versions which are being given huge additional power, in particular the current 911 Turbo.
After a withdrawal of the Maybach product line Mercedes has no intention of turning its back on the super-luxury automobile segment. According to the German car magazine AutoBild the plan is to hark back to the tradition of the historical 600 models with a range of modified S-Class models with wheel-bases of various lengths and even a Pullman version.
The new A-Class not only looks very different from its predecessor it is an entirely new automobile and the motorizations represent the manufacturer’s determination to be innovative. For example, now the ‘BlueDirect’ technology of the V6 and V8 premium segment models finds its way into the compact class in the four-cylinder power plants of the A-Class.
The Mercedes-Benz S-class W116 was built from 1972 to 1980 and first introduced the term "S-class". How will this luxurious classic car perform in a test drive almost 40 years later?