Touring cars
Citroen is entering a car into the World Touring Car Championship next year, and this is its steed. The C-Elysée WTCC will carry Yvan Muller and WRC icon Sebastien Loeb at circuits around the world, and doesn’t it look spanky? It’s powered by a 380bhp 1.6-litre turbocharged engine.
Mr Loeb himself was on hand to launch the car and look suspiciously at us.
Mercedes-Benz brought along one of its cars from the German touring cars, better known as DTM. This particular C-Class belongs to Christian Vietoris. Do touring cars get much meaner than this?
F1
Mercedes wasn’t content with just a badass DTM car – it also brought along its W04 Formula 1 car, resplendent in the livery of Germany’s own Nico Rosberg.
Other
Yet more from Mercedes. It’s not yet clear what series the new CLA45 AMG Racing Series is actually aimed at, but I think we can all agree that it looks pretty awesome. Another World Touring Car entry, perhaps?
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