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Geneva Motor Show 1957 - Stars, Fins and Dwarfs
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Created on April 3, 2017
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Summary
The 1957 Geneva Motor Show was held under a particularly lucky star, as all other spring motor shows had either been canceled or postponed due to the Brussels World Exhibition. This meant that the new Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster and the Pininfarina Ferrari 250 GT convertible and the Meadows Frisky microcar were presented as world firsts, along with many other improvements and embellishments to the car range. This show review highlights the most important innovations and shows the exhibited vehicles and impressions of the show in over 100 pictures.
This article contains the following chapters
- The blood-red 300 SL
- The Salon surprise - the Maserati 3500 GT from Touring
- Fins and innovations from the Americans
- Upswing with the British
- Little new for the continental buyer
- Special demand
- The microcar boom
- Useful accessories
- Also commercial vehicles, boats, tractors and camping
- On the test track
- The closing horn concert
- Further information
Estimated reading time: 8min
Preview (beginning of the article)
The year 1957 went down in history as the year in which Harry Belafonte conquered the world charts with the "Banana Boat Song", the year in which a Wankel engine survived a test run at NSU for the first time and the year in which the conquest of space began with the Sputnik satellite. In 1957, however, the weaknesses of the Swiss road network planning also became apparent to everyone. The lack of modernization and renewal of the road network had led to high accident figures and an increasing lack of capacity. This debacle could no longer be solved at cantonal level; coordination was needed at federal level. The speakers at the 27th Geneva Motor Show, which presented the latest models from vehicle manufacturers to around 230,000 visitors from March 14 to 24, 1957, also called for this.
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