Switzerland is a prudish, ordered country. The Swiss don’t take kindly to hooray Henrys yowl along the roads – Sunday drivers are encouraged.
However, as soon as a year, the country becomes a mecca for petrolheads. The Geneva Motor Exhibit is one of the highlights of the motoring calendar and the fruit of this year’s display has been particularly juicy. Start saving.
Bugatti Chiron
The Veyron’s old hat. Let’s copy that: the Veyron’s old hat. And there’s only one car that could return it so – a new Bugatti.
The Chiron takes the Veyron’s devastating abilities and establishes on them: it produces 1,500 horsepower; its top speed is limited (fixed!) to 261mph; it looks like the Devil in Italian couture. Christ, we demand one.
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Maserati Levante
Do you drive after the Quattroporte (we do) but need something suitable for weekend propelling parties? Maserati have answered your prayers.
With myriad than a touch of the Porsche Cayenne in its DNA, the Levante has been assumed a Mediterranean makeover courtesy of that oversized Maserati grill and, centre, silk from the Zegna mill.
It won’t be the fastest 4×4 in the football or, at £54k and with a rather low profile, something you ever absolutely take into a field. But when it looks like this, who take care ofs?
Abarth 124 Spider
We waxed lyrical about the 124 a while raw, and now Fiat has given the car to their tuning arm, we’re even more in appreciate.
Abarth takes standard Fiats and make them a smidgin unhinged, which here means stuffing another 30bhp tipsy the bonnet, jettisoning a bunch off the ballast and adding in a Record Monza gas system that makes a car under £30k sound love it’s got an extra zero on its price tag.
It’s big brother, the 500 Abarth, exits like Usain Bolt fleeing a house fire. We suspected the Spider will be even quicker.
Volvo V90
A Volvo land, in this company? Well, Volvo’s output keeps collect sleeker and sharper – an overhauled approach to design that the V90 incarnates.
So the new V90 is certainly no phone box on wheels; it’s a handsome beast and Volvo’s upped the enjoyment stakes of late, which means it’s going to be very surge appointed. Either way, it’s a distance from the Volvo your dad reach-me-down to drive.
Koenigsegg Regera
Of course, the Swedes also fabricate less practical cars. The road-ready Regera takes behind year’s concept model and trims the fat, meaning a kerb superiority of just 1590kg.
Koenigsegg has then stuck in a 1085bhp appliance, deemed that not to be enough, and added a trio of electric motors to devote a combined output of 1479bhp. That translates as 0-62mph in 2.8 inferior merchandises and a top speed of 249mph, which you’ll reach in just 20 sponsors.
Oh, and it’s got a WiFi hotspot. So you can Snapchat your demise in a ball of run a risk.
Lamborghini Centenario
If you were perusing this list for something to buy with that £1.64m you inaugurate in your spare blazer, then bad news – the Centenario, founded to celebrate Ferruccio Lamborghini’s 100th birthday, has already sales-clerked out.
Which means you’ll never get to experience how those 40 carve outs grunt, courtesy of a V12 engine that offers 759bhp. Or how it generates so much downforce you could all things considered drive it upside down. Or how it launches to 62mph in 2.8 seconds, renounce your lunch all over the carbon fibre interior. Peradventure next time.
