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Frankfurt motor show 2011: the A-Z guide

Click here for Gavin Greens Frankfurt motor show blog The Frankfurt motor show is in full swing on Tuesday 13 September and CAR has a team of reporters bringing you the news, new car launches and gossip from the IAA. Come back here over the next 48 hours for our handy A-Z list of all the important new cars at Frankfurt - click through on the links below for the pictures, galleries, news and analysis on each launch. And follow Ben Barry's Live Blog here, as he tries to see every car at the Frankfurt auto show.

New Audi A2 EV Concept – first photos arrive

New Audi A2 EV Concept - first photos It wouldn’t be a car show without yet another electric car concept from Audi. The difference at Frankfurt is that the already teased EV from Audi isn’t another in the seemingly endless iteration of e-Tron, instead we’re to get an electric car with a proper Audi tag – the Audi A2 Concept EV. The shame is that Audi seem to have abandoned the range extender route they displayed with the Audi A1 e-Tron – a small Wankel engine in the boot to charge the batteries – and have instead gone down the costly cul-de-sac of a pure EV in the A2.

Alfa MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde: World record for soggy rubber

Alfa MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde World Record Balloon Bursting The Alfa MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde has broken the world record for bursting balloons filled with water in a car – 2,738 balloons. There was a time, when Guinness World Records were new and fascinating, that there was a world record for every daft idea you could think of. And there still is (even though most are bored by pointless world records now), and one of them is now held by the Alfa MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde.