[Dackelone]

I thought I would share with you the Hits and Misses of the Frankfurt Auto Show(IAA). Everyone shows you the latest super cars, but Frankfurt had some really cool off the wall cars that debut. Here are the cars that caught my eye at Frankfurt.

For those of you that have never been to Frankfurt. It is the largest auto show - to my knowledge. You literally take press shuttles from one end of the complex to the other end. I'd say the entire display are is about 1/4 mile by 3/4 miles long. Its huge! Then outside in the many parking lots... they have off road courses that you can test SUV's and Cars on. In one park garage(under one of the display halls) you caould drive a fleet of cars... what ever you desire... but the lines are insane and I only had two days to look over the show! Most of the cars were nothing special. I think you could easily spend four days walking around the IAA show and you would always see something new. It is a very cool show to go too.

One tip I have, is to come on one of the two "insider" trade days. Anyone can come, you just pay about twice as much(~45 euros vs 20 euros) as on a public day. The first two days(Tuesday/Weds) of the IAA are for press only! Then on Thursday and Friday they have this special "trade day" ticket, for people who work in the car industry. But anyone can enter - IF you are willing to pay. Saturday thru the following Sunday(8 days long) is for the general public... and it is PACKED! The trade days don't have the crowds that the "public" days have... it's THE WAY to see the IAA/Frankfurt show!

I want to thank my friend and partner(in crime) on the IAA press days ChrisM135i Its always great to have a wing man when covering these huge events with. I'm looking forward to maybe repeating this adventure in Detroit this fall.

for more info on the IAA...
http://www.iaa.de/en/


With that said... lets get onto my pics(& Chris's pics). Enjoy and sit back for some interesting cars of the IAA.


Dackel




The IAA...


The BMW Hall and the new 7er...


















See that pointy tall building on the left... that's where the other end of the IAA is... and where the MB Hall is that we need to hitch a ride too.


Frankfurt's skyline... sometimes referred to Mainhatten(Main river and Manhatten NYC) or my favorite... Bank-furt bc there are so many banks located in Frankfurt!


IAA map... BMW is located in Hall 11, while MB is all the way to the right in Hall 2




This is Hall 11... in which, BMW Group has it all to itself! It's huge as you can see.


This pic is from 2011... showing you the Audi Hall and the MB Halls. It also shows you how many visitors the IAA gets daily!


hitching a ride in a new 7er "press shuttle"...








new 7er key fob...





new touch temp sensors...










Test Track inside the BMW display Hall...




First public day on Saturday Sept 20th, 2015. From the IAA's FB page...








The MB hall was huge!!






The MB Hall three floors of cars! They had a great display! You took an escalator to the top and you walked thru he entire MB lineup of cars. A great way to see what MB offers.








































































































MB's Concept IAA... this thing was so cool with it's active aero. It has a Cd of just 0.19!!

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One of the really cool things MB did(for the IAA) was commission the chocolate candy bar maker: Ritter Sport(also located in Stuttgart) to make up this "Green Hell" special edition.

I tried so hard to get myself one... but no luck. Now I see them selling on ebay.de for 60+ euros! lol

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more Alfa's...

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Renault...
















































































































































































HERPA models...


Only in Germany... no ATM's but they have these all over the place! lol cig vending machines.

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[larryn]

Thanks Dakel! You bring a lot to this community. Thanks for your time in both attending and documenting for us.

[Dackelone]

Originally Posted by larryn

Thanks Dakel! You bring a lot to this community. Thanks for your time in both attending and documenting for us.

You are quite welcome. I know not everyone is as lucky as me to attend these great car shows. I do it for the love of BMW's and our online community.

[joz]

Some pretty cool cars coming up! Thanks for posting

[Inablur]

Wow Dackel... Much appreciated. Got to know about some cars that are quite interesting thanks to your documentation of the event. Keep it up.

[DJKapeesh]

That Jaguar THO!

[AKRAPOVICOWNS]

Thanks man!

The bug looks pretty bad ass

[tiefergelegt]

awesome! great coverage as always

[4PIPE]

i feel like merc is outdoing us in every department besides hybrid technology

[dr.schmid]

that wide body x6 at the end is hands down one of the most horrid things i have ever layed my eyes on. however. good looks on this post man awesome stuff

[F80_M]

The Jaguar and S63 vert looks so nice.

[raysspl]

Feels like I just attended the show. Thank you for sharing your photos

[luvthestck]

WOW..Amazing work.How long did it take for you to upload all those pics?

Looks like BMW has the crappiest looking cars in that show.Even the Hyundai's look better than that 7.Never been a Merc fan but I must say that their designs are much better than BMW's IMHO. All those BMW's already feel a gen Old .

[E90SLAM]

Oh dear....Why Honda still put the McLaren Honda F1 car up there. It an embarrassment!!!

I love the Porsche Le Mans prototype still got dirt and scuffs...

[M3 Number 86]

what is the clover for alpha refer to?