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We at TTAC are aware of the strain we’ve been placing on attention spans today, what with the six (!) full-length pieces we’ve published today and all. In honor of your noble sacrifice at the altar of literacy we present a gallery of photos from our photographer in Geneva, Tim Sutton. Without comment. Enjoy.
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At least half of these would have benefited from captions so I could have known what or who I was looking at.
Nice looking rims on the MiTo.
I loved the articles today! Very interesting to read.
For some reason, I mistrust car show pictures. The paint is always 102910904% more glossy and polished than IRL, and the lighting makes any car look dead sexy! It’s why I always go to autotrader.com for candid pics on dealer lots to see a more honest view. :P
The lolly-pop on the pile of F1 tyres at the Ferrari stand is ironic given they probably lost the 2008 F1 Driver’s title to a couple of pitstop incidents to do with car release!
That MiTo GTA is all sorts of awesome. 240HP, weighing under 2700lbs. It even looks good in white =)
@PeteMoran
I don’t understand why Ferrari is so dead set on that automated lollipop, considering the trouble it gave them last year I’m suprised it wasn’t ditched sooner.
Ok….
1. Ford Iosis Concept…The Savior of Ford,
2. MDI Air Car, The Savior of personal mobility…it runs for 150 miles on a single tank of compressed air…at 60mph…cost $6000
3. Made up electric dream car
4. Ford Focus RS…the other saviour of Ford
5. The VOlt, or Ampera or Sparky depending where you live…
6. Sir Jackie Stewart
7. A crap SUV from Hyundai
8. A Hyundai executive making excuses
9. Yours if you can invest $25million
10. Fisker karma cockpit
11. AN empty box with 4 RV plugs sticking out of it
12. MDI Air Car. The car of the show!!
13. Lambo LP670-SV and the hottest chic of the show…
14. VW Polo
15. Aston martin 1-77
16. A honey
17. RR 200X Concept (not called the baby roller I found out…)
18. An electro buggy
19. Bentley
20. Alfa 8C COmpetizione Roadster
21. Karma S
22. Skoda Yeti 4×4
23. MiEV from Mitsubishi
24. Chevy Spark…biggest joke.
25. Volt
26. A little Lancia (not the official name!)
27. Alfa GTA – really cool looking car…
28. Air car with onboard compressor…awesome
29. Tata Nano – Cheap. Indian. Deathtrap
30. Another pie in the sky
31. Ampera
32. Subaru EV make believe
33. Fezzas
34. Honda CRX concept
35. Baby Roller
36. A Masser
37. A Roller
38. An Alfa
:)
The Phantomette is beautiful.
Picture 8 is my fav.. It looks like they’re blaming global warming and the economic crisis on the dude in the photo on the right…
Well, I was surprised at the choice of photos for the gallery given the choice I supplied, but hey, this is a serious debate site not the FHM of motoring !!
But if you did want to feast your eyes on a more curvacious aspect of showing cars, the album is here. It is work safe. haha. Enjoy.
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=107494&id=743425389&l=402cc
I also wrote a reportage, but as a non-journo, it is mostly mumblings…anyhow, here it is below, I don’t know if the Mgnt. caught it on the email tagged under the photo’s I sent in so….
After 9 years of VIP ticket blagging, I decided press day was the only way to go from there….
Below is my report as duly submitted to my sponsor website. http://www.ttac.com go visit them by the way. They are great.
Tim Sutton, The self-appointed TAC Reporter in Geneva can confirm plenty of pie in the sky electro nearly-in-production world saving eco-mobile bullshit stories are in full effect at the Geneva Car Show this year.
Suddenly everyone has a make believe full electric vehicle on their stand! Is there a company you can just call to make you a fairytale concept car with accompanying gob-smaking stats…such as The Lightning which claims sub-four second 0-60mph…or the The Chrysler 200C EV concept with a lovely 272 horse electro motor and 60 pure electric kms Come ON ! Subaru even had one tucked away on the corner of the stand…there was also the Circuit EV, The Ford Connect, The Rinspeed ichange, Te’mo, The Lampo, MiEV, The Smartarse EV, The Toyota IQEV, The Ampera, The Mini E, The Nuvu, The Alreda MC2, The Orbital Hybrid, La Venturi, The Volt, The Tesla and The Fisker….and probably others too….unbelievable really. Good luck to ’em all I say, but a bit short sighted to just put a hunk of plastic on a stand and pluck silly enviro-numbers out of thin air and put “it will hit the market in 3 years” spiel out there, as we may not want to buy anything else till then then thank you…… but with the Govts and the Arabs and The Chinese handing out the cash at the moment, who knows what might just make quick production in the next 12 months…
Apart from the Electro-dream mobiles, there was not a huge amount of jaw-hitting-the-floor sort of new metal really. I really had no interest seeing a new AMG or a new M* or a even a Maserati….strange really, but I guess I sub-consciously went looking for Green developments and to see if anyone really may be actually making an electric car sometime soon….I think I am just starting thinking the ICE is just soooo 2000’s dahrling….. The Car of the Show for me then was The Air Car, and for only a pocket money denting 6000 Euros it has to be the mobility invention of the century….It runs on compressed air at a top speed of 90kmh with a range of 220kms a charge. The charge takes seconds and can be done at home or compressed onboard. That is frankly astonishing. How come this isn’t HUGE news! The Frenchies are apparently starting going crayzee over eet now zough and a couple of towns zey have already placed orders for some pilot car sharing sort of schemes. This should be the headline car here today, no doubt about it. It works, it is cheap, it is totally pollution free, its available now, you can charge it anywhere with safe air not much more compressed that at filling stations. This air also “explodes” out into exterior and interior airbags in the event of an accident by the way and it will probably totally like save the planet as well. Surely this and schemes like it is what governments should be throwing money at don’t you think ?!!
The Jeep, Chysler and Dodge stands were by far the emptiest I saw all day. Probably because they fired the bar staff and ditched all the honeys that keep the cars shiny. I even caught myself whistling that Clint Eastwood music as I dodged between the rotting Jeep and Hummer carcasses…Chevy made me laugh though with their new ground breaking multi-tasking city car The Spark that the Frenchies oh so generously critiqued as “particulierement polyvalente” Great, I though a new little urban electro run around….Errr no, its just a new boxy little 5 door petrol powered hatch coming stateside for 2012…Something to look forward to there Robert!
All in all, it has to be a good thing these manufacturers are thinking about greening their portfolios, but franky I think it may be not enough green, and a little too late. Nobody wants to buy even a reasonably economical “green-gesture” car these days, so they the makers are in trouble for the next 3 years I would guess, or realistically, until these green eco-promises materialise anyway. I think the public have been seeing these promises for so long that after all this in-your-face “we are going green!” nobody wants to buy a new gas guzzler at all, not even a hybrid gas guzzler really, as we are all waiting patiently for the new generation of 100 miles per gallon electro cars to arrive!….Especially in this credit crunching time, who in their right mind would commit to a new 5 year leasing on a fatcat 6 litre Jag or a Uber Horsepower 5 series Beamer or similar when you know Fisker is about to get going for 78000 Euros a pop whilst promising 2l of gas per 100km economy and 50 miles emission free, silent motoring… (or F-18 sounding motoring if you flick the switch… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2M3bySwUcI )
For these traditional ICE car companies to carry on, they are going to have to really turn on some serious green and techy magic in the next 18 months or they will be dead in the water as new and well established small volume producers ergo Morgan, Lotus, Artega, Fisker, Tesla, Rinspeed et al. source their parts from manufacturers all over the world and just have them bolted together somewhere like Finland or Hethel or New Mexico.
Compressed air was the big eye opener for me today though.
Thanks also to my sponsor today. TTAC.com
Cheers! Sutski.
Pics to follow.
Location: Geneva
Well if you got this far, you probably have a lot of time on your hands and/or love cars. As a reward, here are the other 2 albums I took on the day. The first is more car focused, the second a variety…Enjoy.
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=107590&id=743425389&l=68e7a
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=107640&id=743425389&l=93b3e
Cheers, Sutski.
For crying out loud Tim. Why didn’t anybody tell me you’d be in Geneva? We could have met.
Come to the Frankfurt show in September. The drinks will be on me.
How did you manage to not get a photo of the Infiniti Essence?