The VW Up Blue-e-motion, or e-Up (VW’s own, convenient abbreviation), is a fully electric version of the award-winning Up city car.

Planned for UK launch in 2014, the Up Blue-e-motion is intended to compete with the imminent Renault Zoe and other electric superminis that will no doubt be on the radar by then.

The e-Up has an 81bhp electric motor able to deliver a 155lb ft torque kick as soon as…

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VW showed a GT Up concept at last year’s Frankfurt motor show, and the production version of this city car-based hot hatch will go on sale next year, priced from around £13,500.

We’ve driven a development prototype, which looked like a regular three-door Up, but production cars will borrow heavily from the concept, which traded the Up’s smiley face for an aggressive-looking trapezoidal air…

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