Life is full of strange quirks of circumstance and one of mine has been many times to be only a couple of days away from being in the same city as a major auto show. This has happened in New York, Chicago and the cruelest of all, Geneva. Five years ago I missed the opening of the 2000 Geneva Auto Show by three days. Of course I only had a little less than 24 hours to spend there, but looking at the posters for the show I certainly would have liked to have extended my stay and gone to the show. But as the Dread Pirate Roberts says to Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride, “get used to disappointment”.

Well, it’s time for the Geneva show once again and you can see all the most relevant production and show introductions at AutoWeek’s show page. The selection tends to reinforce the change in direction for the industry that has already been seen at Los Angeles, Detroit and Chicago this year, that is, a new focus on passenger cars as opposed to SUVs, crossovers & trucks. Not that there aren’t still a lot of those coming down the pike, but it’s been years since our guys have paid much attention to sedans and coupes and it seems like all the European, Japanese and Korean automakers have been tripping all over themselves to get a truck or SUV launched in every size category. It’s so bad out here in So. Cal. that I see more trucks in Santa Monica than I did in Tulsa!

Just a few thoughts on individual models: See the rest of this article at HotWheels Blog where we only talk about cars, trucks & SUVs. (db)

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