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Frankfurt 2007: Huffenpuff Edition (Random, funny and cool stuff)
by John Neff on Sep 16th 2007 at 8:30PM 
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We're still not finished with our posts from Frankfurt, but thought we would end this weekend with a collection of our most random, funny and cool shots from the show floor. We call it the Huffenpuff Edition, named after Frankfurt's central train station, or Hauptbahnhof in German, past which we rode on our way to the show every day and whose name we could never pronounce.
We've got a nice sized gallery chock full of the back of Bob Lutz's head, a pewter Lexus LS460, the world's biggest Fiat 500, a Mercedes CLS Wagon, smart car rollerskates, and more. Check out all the Huffenpuff Edition pics in our gallery below, complete with captions to help explain the insanity.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
iPhoneResidentObssesive 8:37PM (9/16/2007)
WTF?!
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Dave Manning 9:58PM (9/16/2007)
Howpt bahhhhn hofff
Just east of where you are is the tough ones -
Hauptwache
Taunusanlage
Dave
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BirdmanSTX 11:23PM (9/16/2007)
The Borbet tire in sand thing was pretty cool... but the indentions in the sand should have been in reverse right??
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500 12:19AM (9/17/2007)
Yeah you're right; didn't even notice that.
But an LS460 made of pewter? I doubt it; looks like a regular LS with a pewter finish. Even the windows appear to be just glass painted on the inside. A real LS460 of solid pewter would weigh even more than the gas-guzzling, 5000lb+ LS600h!
And what's up with the jewel-encrusted '55 Beetle?
94 taurus owner 9:20PM (9/18/2007)
that name reminds of of that old tv show puff and stuff.
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MJL 8:36PM (9/19/2007)
I'm sure that even before my message gets posted someone will have noted this, but Hauptbahnhof means "main train station" in German, and in fact, every German city (Berlin and Munich, to name a couple) has a station called Hauptbahnhof. So it's not really the station's "name" at all. Just sayin'...
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BCM 11:35PM (9/16/2007)
It's also pronounced almost exactly as it would be as an unfamiliar English word; the only ambiguity is whether the "o" should long or short. Actually, it's less confusing than English pronunciation of names such as Cholmondeley, St. John, or Magdalen.