When the past meets the future (at the Geneva Motor Show) ...
Few events make you more aware of how mobility has changed over the last 120 years than the 88th Geneva Motor Show, which opens its doors to the whole world today.
On the one hand, Renault is celebrating its 120th birthday and showing (in front of a constantly animated giant LCD screen) a Type A from 1898 with 273 cm3, a three-speed gearbox and a top speed of 32 km/h. On the other hand, you can see drive and vehicle concepts of the future from many manufacturers, such as the soon to be available electric SUV I-Pace from Jaguar ...
... or pioneering mobility concepts from Toyota ...
... or Volkswagen or even Renault.
In between, there are crazy super sports cars with 1800 hp that look like cars from the sixties like the Corbellati Missile ...
... or genuine sixties classics like the Shelby Cobra, which advertises a tire brand.
A special exhibition called "Le retour du futur" on the upper floor focuses on how concept cars have changed over the decades. Among other things, two Alfa Romeo 6C 2300Bs from 1938 with Worblaufen bodywork are on display there, which were shown exactly as they were 80 years ago at the Geneva Motor Show ...
... and the still breathtaking Lamborghini Marzal, which celebrated its premiere at the 1967 Geneva Motor Show and still exudes more future than past today.
Incidentally, this special show also has a historical precedent, as prototypes from various eras were already on display in 1978, including the Fiat-Abarth 2000 Coupé Speicale from 1969, the Bertone Citroën Camargue from 1972 and the Sbarro S.V. 1 from 1972, as Automobil Revuereported at the time .
A visit to Geneva is definitely worthwhile, there are many unusual things to discover, be it a helicopter car or the resurrection of the Bullit-Mustang. In any case, you are taking part in a true journey through time, which sheds light on 140 rather than 120 years, as some concept cars look at least 10 to 20 years into the future.
We will, of course, be reporting in detail on the Geneva Motor Show, with a particular focus on the historic vehicles that made it back under the spotlights of the exhibition in 2018 in surprisingly large numbers.
