Despite being held in such an agreeable country, the Geneva Motor Show brings out the crazy in automakers.
Every auto show draws excessively excessive supercars like the $3 million Pagani Zonda Revolucion, but Geneva is special for being just a bit more… excessive than shows in, say, Paris or Detroit. It’s the type of place where a small German boutique company that’s just filed for bankruptcy announces, without the slightest irony, that its latest car is called the Explosion. And no one bats an eye when the guys at ItalDesign suggest, with its wild VW Golf-based electric vehicle concept, that the only thing better than a car with butterfly doors is a car with butterfly doors and gullwing doors.
The past was no less important than the future at this year’s show. One highlight was a display of 20 Le Man race cars from the past 90 years. It was a gorgeous sight, and a reminder that motorsports history is full of eccentric designs, some of which actually work.
Despite debuts like the Lamborghini Huracán and McLaren 650S, the bulk of the show was dedicated to cars the rest of us can afford. Standouts included the Jeep Renegade and Audi’s S1 and TT. Here are our favorite cars from Geneva.
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