Volkswagen Golf R stars at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show

Many landmarks have been established here at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show – and Volkswagen is one manufacturer that’s stealing headlines with its new Golf R. This is the most powerful production Golf ever, packing 300hp and four-wheel drive. Amazingly, it’s also more efficient than its predecessor.

Make the McLaren MP4-12C your own with new online configuator

We all want to own a McLaren--a lucky few among us actually will. But the rest of us can still dream, design our custom MP4-12C with McLaren's new online configurator and hope for a winning lottery ticket. Anyone can log on at www.mclarenautomotive.com and access the configurator.

Why we won't be running CDNLive coverage from the Beijing motor show

Over the last couple of years we've grown our CDNLive motor show coverage from the world's most important motor shows, in an effort to bring you closer to all the new cars and news as well as highlighting some of the things you might miss. It's one of our the key content streams that we feel sets us apart from the deluge of auto show coverage. However as you can imagine it also takes a huge amount of time and effort, not to mention a good internet connection.