Let’s salute the specialists: the design companies that eschew the obvious and design cars to drive for the sake of driving design – the concepts that seem completely out there at first but, as with high fashion, influence their way into the mainstream quicker than you’d expect. A major difference with these concepts are that [...]
…As do the noses and faces at the luxury end of the market. Geometric lines and stark angles battled with classic curves and swooping shapes in the nose styling and staring eyes of headlight clusters all around the Geneva Motor Show. Trekking around the halls, there was a refreshingly eclectic range of design aesthetics visible [...]
The Geneva Motor Show wasn’t just about Italian supercars by any means. Covering seven halls, Geneva is as much about the mainstream as the exotics and tuners, with standard city cars, electro-wagons and commute-mobiles with their green credentials vying for people’s attention. Which I will get to. But then you come across something like a [...]
The 2013 Geneva Salon International De L’Auto opened today, and as has been heavily trailed in the weeks leading up to the event there has been a whole slew of new cars and concepts revealed at the show. I’ll be taking a more detailed look across the myriad of manufacturer, styling and tuner displays in [...]
2013 is shaping up to be the year of the Hypercar. Joining the entries from Lamborghini, McLaren, Ferrari also wowed crowds in Geneva this week with the release of the LaFerrari. Ferrari chose the slightly curious name for the project because the new car is the “maximum expression” of what defines the company. Built to [...]
2014 will officially mark the 50th anniversary of the Porsche 911 going on sale, and to celebrate the milestone Porsche will be introducing the latest version of the 911 GT3. Based on the 911 chassis, the car is joining the host of other hot-blooded machines debuting this week at the Geneva Motor Show. As in [...]
Say hello to what just might be the wildest Lamborghini ever made – the Veneno. Not only is the Veneno a mad looking machine, but you can’t buy one. First of all, it’s priced at a staggering $4.6 million dollars. Second, even if you happen to have 4.6 million burning a hole in your pocket, [...]
