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Our Beloved Oddball Cars of the Geneva Motor Display 2017
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At every auto showcase, you’ll find big-ticket manufacturer exposes and concept cars that garner all the headlines, with a few tuner companies, startups and smaller design house projects sprinkled in inbetween. Usually, that’s accompanied by slew of floor space filler – lame cars you wouldn’t even glance at in the grocery store parking lot.
But the two thousand seventeen Geneva Motor Showcase brought out the big guns. Of course, there were the cars everyone (especially us) was looking forward to. But slew of cars that didn’t make headlines certainly caught our attention.
The Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus SCG003S
Cameron Glickenhaus set out to build a car that he could drive from his garage to the twenty four Hours of Le Guy’s, earn a class-win with and then drive home again. Very first, he built the SCG003C, which he stamina raced with some success at the Nürburgring. Then he built the SCG003S – basically the same race car in utter civilian trim. Evidently, it’s still just as capable on the track.
Hybrid Kinetic Group H600 by Pininfarina
Sitting next to the Pininfarina-designed EF7 Vision Gran Turismo, the H600 looked a little sedated – even with its pillarless suicide doors.
David Brown Automotive
Bespoke car builders often attempt to open up classic proportions and style over modern cars to create something entirely fresh, and it doesn’t always work. But in the case of the David Brown Automotive Speedback GT, it depends on how you look at it. From some angles, the hand-formed bod panels ideally represent the vintage era to which they’re clearly harking back. From other angles, it looks like a resto-mod attempt akin to the two thousand two Ford Thunderbird. Tho’ no one can deny the level of attention to detail via the car, especially the well-appointed interior.
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Renault F1
Sitting right next to the Infiniti Project Black S was the Renault Formula one car, from which the former’s hybrid tech is derived. It’s not uncommon for previous years’ F1 cars to make the rounds at auto shows, but most of the time you’ll see a hollow display car. The cut-away engine cover gave show-goers a uncommon peek into a modern Formula one hybrid engine.
Mercedes X-Class
It was nice to ultimately see the Mercedes pickup in the metal. Tho’ it sort of looks like a run-of-the-mill Apple product on the outside, the interior is utter of woodgrain trim, Alcantara leather and hand-stitched seams – classic Mercedes. If only it was based off the G550 Four×Four two and not a Nissan Navara.
Brabus five hundred fifty Escapade Four×Four Two
Speaking of the G550… You can always count on Brabus to take an already ridiculous Mercedes and ratchet it up a few more notches. Instead of going the uber-luxe route, like Mercedes did with the Maybach Landaulet, Brabus went all in on the overland end of the spectrum. We approve.
The two thousand seventeen Geneva Motor Demonstrate Headliners
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