Summary
Calvin spent a few years in Geneva, so you could say that the Swiss city has a certain familiarity with po-faced old miserabilists. The kind of people who will no doubt draw some perverse satisfaction from the fact that the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, which kicked off last week, is dominated by austerity, gloom and foreboding.
Oh, and a lot of greenwash as well. The global economy may be picking up, and confidence returning all over the shop, but the tone of the show has been set by launches of cars designed to appeal to the pathologically parsimonious: eco-this, hybrid-that, CO2 outputs on a par with a gnat's fart.See the full content of this document
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Cars to Brighten Dour Days
But wait, for the news is not all bad. You might have to look a little harder than before, but in its 105th year the Geneva show is still throwing up exhibits to set the petrolhead's pulse racing. The manufacturers might like you to believe they ...
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