Over the course of the last three major international auto shows in Frankfurt, Tokyo and Los Angeles, Volkswagen unveiled a new family of small, highly-efficient cars. Like the original air-cooled models that represented the first three decades of the company's commercial existence, the rear-engined two-door spawned other body styles. Beginning with the up!, the four-door space up! and the micro-bus-inspired space up! bleufollowed. This week at the Bologna Motor show in Italy, Volkswagen showed all three variants of the New Small Family together for the first time. It's expected that toward the end of this decade, VW will introduce production models very similar to the NSF cars to be sold world wide.
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