Five-door up! joins Volkswagen’s new family of ultra-compact city cars

Volkswagen has exposed the newest addition to its "New Small Family" series of ultra-compact city vehicles based on the first Volkswagen up! Concept car that debuted at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show.

Since then we've seen plentiful up! Concept cars such as the up! Lite, the E-up! And the Space up!, and even before the production launch of the three-door up!, which hit showrooms last December, Volkswagen had already hinted a five-door model was in the works.

Now the company has revealed that this new addition will be available in Germany from May and the rest of Europe by mid-year.