10 Things To Look Forward To At The Geneva Motor Show

It's not long until one of the most important motor shows of the year kicks off, but what cars should you be looking out for?
10 Things To Look Forward To At The Geneva Motor Show

The International Geneva Motor Show - to give it its full name - is one of the most important events of the year for new cars. If you’re into your new car news, you want to be paying attention. But, when the 86th running of the show kicks off on 3 March - and in the days leading up to then - what cars should you be keeping an eye out for? These are our picks:

Jaguar F-Type SVR

10 Things To Look Forward To At The Geneva Motor Show

Having already done a very good job of creating the utterly ludicrous Range Rover Sport SVR, Jaguar Land Rover’s new Special Vehicle Operations Division is on the verge of releasing its not-so-difficult second album: the F-Type SVR. Except we’ve seen it already, thanks to a leak last week. Oops.

Still, we’re looking forward to seeing it in the metal. This all-wheel drive monster is 25bhp more powerful than the current range-topper - the R - bringing the total violence from the 5.0-litre supercharged V8 to 576bhp. It’s lighter too, and littered with clever aero bits.

Apollo Arrow

10 Things To Look Forward To At The Geneva Motor Show

Gumpert is dead. But don’t worry, out of the ashes of one of the most poorly-named car companies ever conceived has risen Apollo Automobil, and it’ll be bringing a brand new car codenamed ‘Arrow’ to Geneva. It’ll be revealed on 1 March - a couple of days before the show starts - and we can’t wait to see it.

Bugatti Chiron

10 Things To Look Forward To At The Geneva Motor Show

The long-awaited Bugatti Veyron successor will say its tremendously unsubtle hello to the world at Geneva. How unsubtle? Well, The Chiron is understood to be packing an evolution of the Veyron’s 8.0-litre W16, this time pumping out a jolly useful 1500bhp or so. There’s been talk of a frankly bonkers 290mph top speed - as well as a 2.2-second 0-62mph time - and it’ll take styling cues from the Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo concept.

Porsche 911 R

10 Things To Look Forward To At The Geneva Motor Show

No silly, not the car in the picture, that’s a 911 GT3. But the R is in essence a GT3, minus the rear wing and with three pedals and a stick shifter. Oh yes, after the manual-only Cayman GT4, it looks like Porsche is building another sports car aimed squarely at the purist petrolhead. Nothing’s official at the moment, but a Geneva reveal is expected.

Also on the Porsche front, we should get our first proper look at the updated Boxster and Cayman ranges, which will feature four-cylinder engines.

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With the ageing Aston Martin DB9 starting to lag behind its rivals, the DB11 can’t come soon enough. It’ll almost certainly be powered by Gaydon’s all-new 5.2-litre twin-turbo V12, and will hopefully look just as gorgeous as the car it’s due to replace.

Pagani Huayra BC

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While we’ve now well and truly lost count of the ridiculous number of Zonda special editions, the Huayra has remained a little left out. There’s been a few one-off cars - including Salomondrin’s 730 S - but not a whole lot else. The BC, however, goes some way to redressing the balance.

The car you see in the image above is allegedly it, and while very few details have been confirmed, the BC is thought to be a more track-oriented version of the ‘boggo’ Huayra, hence all the crazy wings and aero bits. Hopefully we’ll know a lot more by the time Geneva comes around.

Lamborghini Centenario

10 Things To Look Forward To At The Geneva Motor Show

It’s been a little while since Lamborghini took one of its cars, turned up the crazy and inflated the price to ridiculous levels, but don’t worry - Sant’Agata Bolognese has something planned. It’s called the Centenario, so called as it celebrates the 100th birthday of Ferruccio Lamborghini. Like the Veneno (above) it’ll be based on the Aventador, and all 40 of the £1.64 million cars have already been sold.

Volvo V90

10 Things To Look Forward To At The Geneva Motor Show

While the new S90 saloon is most certainly a handsome devil, it’s science fact that Volvos are cooler as estates. Fortunately, we don’t have long to wait for all the official details, with the V90 - which was prematurely revealed earlier this year - making its debut at Geneva.

A garage door

10 Things To Look Forward To At The Geneva Motor Show

It’s probably a little too early to call this effort from Skoda the worst teaser of the year, but by the end of 2016, this will surely be a strong contender (next to the stinker Bugatti dropped a few weeks ago). The chatter surrounding it suggests it’s likely to be teasing a new Skoda SUV to sit above the Yeti. So not the sort of thing that normally gets us going, but worth mentioning for the sake of lambasting this awful teaser.

Coverage via the CT Android app

10 Things To Look Forward To At The Geneva Motor Show

OK, so the last thing isn’t a car, but if you want to keep up to date on all Geneva news (including our own coverage, articles from your favourite auto publications and reports from our man on the ground Alex Kersten) and you have an Android phone, make sure you head over to the Google Play store and download the CT app now!

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Anonymous

im verymuch looking forward to A garage door.. and have a test drive in it.

01/26/2016 - 13:08 |
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Matt Robinson
Matt Robinson

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Potential car of the year for sure.

01/26/2016 - 13:14 |
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Anonymous

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Not to mention that lovely blue writing!

01/26/2016 - 13:24 |
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Dat Boi

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Wonder how long it takes to go from 0 to 60 inches

01/26/2016 - 14:15 |
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Anonymous

Since BC in my country means sister fker i can see the owner introducing the car
It’s huayra sister f
kers 😂

01/26/2016 - 13:24 |
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Boosted Boris

I’m going there too. Will look for a car with best vodka holder.

01/26/2016 - 13:32 |
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Isn’t that everycar with a russian driver?

01/26/2016 - 18:40 |
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Freddie Skeates

Isn’t Alpina coming out with a new B7 soon? I heard it would be out in the spring

01/26/2016 - 13:45 |
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Lamborghini SV

I’m excited for the new DB11

01/26/2016 - 14:16 |
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Anonymous

Pagani Huayra bc
Bc racecar

01/26/2016 - 14:17 |
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Anonymous

Above the Yeti? But the Yeti is the best car in the world… So it’s either gonna be amazing or overhyped and disappointing.

01/26/2016 - 14:49 |
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Anonymous

How many of the CT-Members here are also going to travel to Geneva ?

01/26/2016 - 15:17 |
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Anonymous

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I’m probably going. I went last year, and it was awesome. :D

01/26/2016 - 15:43 |
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DIY Or Die

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2167 Geneva Motorshow: Introducing the new Aston Martin DB3626.32

01/26/2016 - 16:20 |
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Anonymous

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Also going… It’s the type of event that I only saw pictures of in car magazines when I was young so, I think for the first time I’m going :)

01/27/2016 - 10:56 |
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Khali

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I’m going there for the first time!Look Forwaaard!

01/30/2016 - 10:31 |
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Anonymous

call me what you want but in the photo the Lamborghini Centenario looks a Hella lot like the the Lamborghini Veneno, if you guys dont mind, i havent researched the car yet, and well…..since top gear uk is no longer out i dont know much about newer sports cars. Whats the difference?

01/26/2016 - 15:40 |
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Alex 10

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The car in the pic is a picture of an actual veneno, they just needed some hypercar lambo to use a pic of since no one knows what the centenario looks like yet (well as of this post)

02/29/2016 - 20:17 |
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Opelimist

How about the new Opel GT design concept that will influence the new line of Insignia, Astra etc. ? I’ve read that Monza model might come back as well as a new GT! There is a short video from Opel (Vauxhall) on youtube that shows a bit of the new design.

01/26/2016 - 15:45 |
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