In March of every year at the Geneva International Motor Show, the world's leading automakers cram into seven exhibition halls totaling over 330,000 square feet. It is Europe's first auto show of the year and features the latest models stretching the gamut from Maserati and Ferrari to Ford and GM (Ford and GM are doing quite well in Europe despite piling up the losses in the US).
Geneva is about a 3.5 hour train from Zurich. We've done this train a few times. However, we can never get enough of the last part of the ride into Geneva, the train breaks suddenly out of a long tunnel, you are greeted with a view across the wine vineyards flowing down a steep incline into Lake Geneva and then you realize across the lake are the impressive French Alps. We are definitely soaking things in more acutely as we get closer to leaving. We will definitely be homesick for awhile when we get back to the US. We got the girls up early (630a ... arrrhhh!) and hopped aboard.
There was a great mix of interesting concept cars such as this one from Toyota as well as "sehr cool, Euro supermodels.
The Indians from Tata Motors rolled out the new $2,000 people mover which is going to revolutionize the streets of Delhi and Bombay by putting car ownership within the reach of 1 billion plus Indians. Not sure I'd want to pile in ... might give it a few years to prove out the safety record!!!
The whole family had a great time and even got to do a little fantasizing
Here are some more pictures of the show (CLICK on the SPEAKER ICON ON THE BOTTOM LEFT of the SLIDES for the appropiately selected accompaniment "Chasing Cars")
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