Frankfurt Motor Show has some great (concept) cars making their debut

Sep 9, 2003 | 04:14 PM

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Frankfurt Motor Show has some great (concept) cars making their debut

Here's the Peugeot 407 Elixir concept (looking sort of similar in rear hatchback shape to the Mazda Kusabi concept) -- here are some photo links to compare...

For the Peugeot 407 Elixir concept
http://www.cardesignnews.com/autosho...xir/index.html

[Or to see more actual picts of both cars ... and more (from AutoWeek Online's Frankfurt show coverage) check out...

http://autoweek.com/specials/2003_frankfurt/

Sadly I couldn't come up with anything showing the back or the inside of the Mazda Kusabi ...

For the Mazda Kusabi concept, here's the concept drawings showing both front and back

http://www.cardesignnews.com/autosho...abi/index.html

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Sep 9, 2003 | 04:21 PM

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Plus the the Peugeot 407 Elixir concept kind of reminds me of the eariler ... Opel GTC Genève study for Geneva Motor Show

http://www.cardesignnews.com/autosho...eve/index.html

Sep 9, 2003 | 04:22 PM

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Volkswagen is going Porsche Boxster hunting

Sep 9, 2003 | 04:24 PM

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Audi muscles in on Porsche 911 with the concept car called Le Mans

Sep 9, 2003 | 04:30 PM

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I can only hope and dream that most of these cars make it to production and come over to north america ...

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Sep 9, 2003 | 05:04 PM

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... And here's the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren that will be produced! Although I believe that there will not be many of them ...

Sep 9, 2003 | 06:01 PM

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that audi looks so awesome

Sep 9, 2003 | 10:07 PM

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that audi looks so awesome

610 hp bi-turbo V10 !!!!
Quattro 40/60 split
Sequential Manual Gearbox
0-100 km/hr in 3.7 sec!!!!!

It shares many components with the new baby Lambo!!!

Can you say Enzo fighter!!!!!!!

Sep 10, 2003 | 10:10 AM

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More pictures are starting to show up on the Mazda Kusabi

If you scroll al the way down, you'll see these pics and if you click on them you'll get even bigger versions ...

http://www.cardesignnews.com/autosho...ts/index2.html

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Mazda Kusabi

Talking to Yoichi Sato, Chief Designer Mazda Advanced Design Studio, the concept for the Kusabi became clear. Based on the platform of the small Mazda 2 (Demio in Japan) the car is an everyday sports sub-compact&Mac226;, a 2+2 seater, sporty town car with a particularly innovative rear tailgate system. This tailgate opens like a conventional hatchback by pivoting at the rearmost edge of the roof, or by opening from either side (in a similar way to gull wing doors) and pivoting through its centre running front to back. An innovative swivelling seat back enables easy access to the rear seats and the 1.6 litre litre diesel engine powers this urban concept.