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Geneva Motor Show 1962 - the year of sporty, elegant innovations
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Created on February 18, 2012
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Summary
Although the 1962 Geneva Motor Show offered fewer innovations than other shows before and after it, it still set a new record in terms of the number of visitors. The public was able to admire vehicles never seen before, especially in the sports car segment, starting with the Simca 1000 Coupé and ending with the Ferrari Super Fast III by Pininfarina. Evolution before revolution seemed to be the overall motto, and accordingly many improved but hardly any truly new vehicles were shown in Geneva. This report summarizes the range and the innovations and shows the 1962 Geneva Motor Show in over 110 pictures.
This article contains the following chapters
- Fewer sensations, more developments
- Bigger on the inside than on the outside - the modern small cars of 1962
- The middle class - the European counterpart to the "compact car"
- For weekdays and weekends - station wagons on the advance
- For every budget - sports cars and souped-up production cars
- Elegance and progress - the luxury class
- Lots of space and lots of power - family vehicles from both sides of the ocean
- Aesthetics and the unusual - the special bodies
- Slow progress, lack of vision?
- And the accessories
- Further information
Estimated reading time: 9min
Preview (beginning of the article)
The automobile year 1962 was a positive one, with the opening of the 32nd International Motor Show in Geneva. Individual motorization in Switzerland was progressing rapidly, with 107,017 new cars being put on the road in 1961. Although growth was somewhat lower than in the sensational year of 1960, it was still high at 18.5%. The leading brand in terms of sales in 1961 was Volkswagen, and that with a single model, more or less. 20.3% of the vehicles sold were VW Beetles, which was an increase on the 18.2% of the previous year. The second largest automobile group in terms of new registrations in 1961 was General Motors (16.3%), followed by Ford (10.1%), Fiat (7.2%), Daimler-Benz with Auto Union (6.8%), Peugeot (6.5%), Renault (6.4%), Citroën-Panhard (5.9%), Simca (4.5%) and finally BMC (British Motor Corporation, 2.3%). These groups accounted for 86.3% of new vehicle sales and came to Geneva with concentrated power to defend or even increase their market shares.
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