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The Geneva motor show for 2018 has just begun and it's shaping up nicely.
Here is a selection of the greatest and most interesting new cars heading our way soon.
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Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro
Aston Martin has raised the bar of what’s possible in the exclusive track-only hypercar club with this, its new Valkyrie AMR Pro, which has been described by company boss Andy Palmer as “truly mind-bending”. The new car is co-developed by Red Bull Racing using the base of Aston Martin’s soon-to-arrive Valkyrie hypercar. It injects even more power and downforce into a lightened package influenced by Formula 1 engineering genius Adrian Newey, Red Bull’s chief technical officer.
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Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro
At the heart of the model is a recalibrated version of the Valkyrie’s V12 hybrid powerplant. The Cosworth 6.5-litre engine has been fettled with a new emissions control system and works with a reprogrammed energy recovery technology for the hybrid system. Power is now said to exceed 1100bhp. Top speed? 225mph.
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Bentley Bentayga Hybrid
A green Bentley? Bentley has revealed its first ever plug-in hybrid, the Bentayga hybrid. It's the brand’s first step towards electrification which will culminate in the launch of a pure electric mid-sized sports car by 2020.
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Bentley Bentayga Hybrid
The new Bentayga Hybrid, which is capable of up to 31 miles of electric-only range, uses an electric motor with a turbocharged 3.0-litre V6 petrol engine, the same set-up used in the Porsche Panamera E-Hybrid. The motor acts as both an electric motor and a generator. Performance figures have not yet been revealed but a total output of 450bhp is expected. We expect it to be somewhat cheaper than the W12-powered model.
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Aston Martin Lagonda Vision Concept
The famous Lagonda name will be used on at least two electric production cars from 2021. The first will be be a Rolls-Royce Phantom-rivalling luxury saloon inspired by this four-door, four-seat Vision Concept.
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Aston Martin Lagonda Vision Concept
But whereas Rolls-Royce and Bentley are traditional in their approach to luxury, Lagonda will position itself as the futuristic alternative to buyers who want to reject old-world luxury. It aims to be the first luxury car maker to truly embrace modern technology and the efficiency of electric car design, creating more cabin space and mixing that with a near-silent zero-emission drivetrain.
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Jaguar I-Pace
Jaguar has pipped its competitors to the post, revealing its first stand-alone electric model before SUV rivals from Audi and Mercedes. The 395bhp I-Pace is the first pure-electric model from the brand and spearheads a range of forthcoming electrified Jaguars. The next electric model, due next year, will be a new-generation XJ luxury saloon, and hybrid versions of its other models will start arriving by 2020.
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Jaguar I-Pace
The I-Pace’s 90kWh lithium ion battery delivers a range of up to 298 miles, according to the new WLTP cycle. That equates to 336 miles on the old NEDC test and 240 miles on the American EPA cycle.
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Skoda Vision X
Skoda will use the Vision X SUV concept it is showing at the Geneva motor show to showcase a compressed natural gas (CNG) hybrid electric powertrain. The Vision X is a compact crossover that previews a similar-sized production model due to arrive next year.
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Skoda Vision X
Based on the same version of the Volkswagen Group MQB platform as the Seat Arona and Volkswagen T-Roc, the new production model will be the third in Skoda’s SUV line, underneath the Karoq and Kodiaq.
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Volkswagen I.D. Vizzion
This is the bold new I.D. Vizzion concept. Previewing the fourth in what officials at its VW's Wolfsburg headquarters in Germany have confirmed to Autocar will be a series of five new I.D. production models already granted a greenlight by its chairman Mathias Mueller, is the four-wheel drive I.D.
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Volkswagen I.D. Vizzion
Vizzion has been conceived to sit at the very top of the German car maker’s line-up, featuring limousine-like exterior dimensions, a plush leather lined interior and, in a pointer to the technical details of the upcoming showroom version of the new car, a combined 302bhp and an electric range of 413 miles.
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Range Rover SV Coupe
The new Range Rover SV Coupé means Land Rover can compete more directly than ever before with a plethora of luxury SUVs, including the Bentley Bentayga, Lamborghini Urus and forthcoming Rolls-Royce Cullinan. Pricing for the two-door SV Coupé will start around 40% above the current most expensive Range Rover, and only 999 examples will be built.
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Range Rover SV Coupe
The SV Coupé uses the same powertrain as the Range Rover SVAutobiography LWB: a 5.0-litre supercharged V8 petrol engine producing 557bhp and 516lb ft mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission with a rotary drive selector and paddle shifters.
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Toyota GR Supra Racing Concept
This is the GR Supra Racing Concept, which previews the new Supra sports car due in 2019. The new version of the front-engined two-seat sports car is being developed alongside the new BMW Z4, and is set to be powered by a 335bhp motor. Both cars have been spotted testing in camouflage, and BMW has already shown a Z4 concept.
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Toyota GR Supra Racing Concept
Both cars have been spotted testing in camouflage, and BMW has already shown a Z4 concept.
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McLaren Senna GTR
McLaren’s racing engineers have been let loose on its newest supercar to produce this, the Senna GTR concept – a 1000kg of downforce-producing track-monster that’s more focused than even the P1 GTR. Described as the fastest machine to roll out of McLaren this side of a Formula 1 car, this Geneva motor show concept is a preview for what's to come when an extreme take on the formidable Senna Super Series model is launched.
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McLaren Senna GTR
In the GTR, the Senna’s twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 has been reworked so it now produces “at least” 814bhp – up from the standard car’s 789bhp. It sends drive through what the brand calls a “race-style transmission”.
With no road regulations or pedestrian safety tests to worry about, McLaren’s aerodynamicists have extracted a further 200kg of potential downforce from the Senna’s body. They’ve gently resculpted its panels, added an enormous front-splitter and bolted on a rear diffuser that shames those used by Le Mans GTE racers. Add the Senna’s active rear wing and downforce now peaks at 1000kg, 400kg more than the McLaren P1 GTR.
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Bugatti Chiron Sport
Bugatti has pulled the wraps off a more hardcore version of its 1479bhp hypercar called the Chiron Sport. The uprated model loses weight and gains new chassis settings to enhance its agility and make it a more driver-focused offering. It’s said to be 5secs faster than the standard car on the Nardò handling circuit.
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Bugatti Chiron Sport
Weight has been saved through the use of several lighter parts, including new wheels, a carbonfibre intercooler cover and a carbonfibre windscreen wiper. The latter, a world first, is 77% lighter to reduce weight by 1.4kg. The rear window glass is lighter as well.
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Rimac C_Two
The statistics unveiled alongside this new electric are almost as eye-catching as its design; the car can achieve 0-60mph in 1.85secs, and 0-100mph in 4.3secs from a rolling start, said the company. That puts it on a par with the forthcoming Tesla Roadster, which is claimed to do those benchmark sprints in 1.9secs and 4.2secs respectively.
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Rimac C_Two
The C_Two, which is only a codename, is the Croatian hypercar firm’s second model. This new model uses a 120kWh lithium battery and develops 1888bhp and 1696lb ft of torque; a top speed of 258mph is claimed and Rimac also says that new liquid-cooled thermal management systems means the car is capable of two full laps of the Nurburgring at full power. It has a claimed range of 404 miles on an NEDC cycle and can be charged to 80% capacity in less than 30 minutes.
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BMW M8 Gran Coupe
This suave new concept features the bold styling of a luxurious four-door 8 Series set to sit at the top of its line-up from the latter half of 2019.
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BMW M8 Gran Coupe
Together with the yet- to-be-revealed concept of the 8 Series Cabriolet, the production versions of the three new 8 Series models are planned to be sold with a range of petrol engines, including a base turbocharged 3.0-litre six-cylinder as well as standard and M division derivatives of the German car maker’s turbocharged 4.4-litre V8. At the very top of the range, there will be a twin-turbocharged 6.6-litre V12 unit, which already resides in the plush M760i xDrive.
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Subaru Viziv Tourer
Is this one of the best looking new cars at the show? We love a good looking wagon at Autocar, and the sturdy elegance of this car seems a great direction for Subaru to head in.
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Subaru Viziv Tourer
This car will serve as a spiritual successor to the last big-booted Subaru WRX, the Impreza estate that was discontinued in 2007, and should arrive in production form on the roads by 2020.
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Mercedes-AMG GT 4-door
This is Mercedes-Benz’s AMG performance car division latest production model: the GT 4-door Coupé. The top-of-the- line GT63 S 4Matic+ is powered by a 630bhp twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 petrol engine, which is capable of propelling the car to 62mph from rest in just 3.2sec and on to a top speed of 196mph.
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Mercedes-AMG GT 4-door
The ‘4-door Coupé’ component of its name suggests that it is a saloon-cum-coupé model in the mould of the mechanically similar Mercedes CLS. However, it does in fact take inspiration from the existing GT Coupé by featuring a fastback-style tailgate.
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David Brown Speedback Silverstone
This is a new, more powerful edition of David Brown's exclusive Speedback GT dubbed the Silverstone Edition and aimed at younger buyers than the traditionally styled original launched in 2014.
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David Brown Speedback Silverstone
The new car, which again incorporates British-sourced, handcrafted materials and trim parts, costs £744,000 in the UK (just over US$1 million at current exchange rates), about £120,000 (US$160,000) more than the original Speedback’s starting price. It will be made in an exclusive batch of 10 cars, the same number of original-edition GTs the company has so far delivered.
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Lamborghini Huracan Performante Spyder
This is the most track-focused drop-top supercar to leave the gates of Lamborghini’s Sant'Agata Bolognese factory yet. The new model adds a folding fabric soft-top to the circuit-honed chassis of the Performante, mixing its sharpened handling with the more visceral experience of open-top motoring.
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Lamborghini Huracan Performante Spyder
The car retains the unique bodykit of the Performante, with forged carbonfibre used for the front spoiler and rear wing, as well as the car’s prominent rear diffuser, but chopping off the roof has encouraged the fitment of two rear buttresses, which are identical to those fitted to the regular Spyder and give the car a unique silhouette whether the roof is up or down.
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Zenvo TSR-S
Not the most shy and retiring car at the show, this is a new track-focused, road-legal hypercar that uses a ramped up version of its flat-plane crank V8 putting out 1177bhp.
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Zenvo TSR-S
The mid-engined two-door has 14bhp more than the TS1 GT it is based on, with an all-carbonfibre body built over a steel and aluminium monocoque.Zenvo's 5.8-litre engine uses a trio of superchargers to offer muscular performance, enabling a 0-62mph time of 2.8sec and 0-124mph time of 6.8sec - identical to the McLaren Senna - in the TSR-S. Top speed is limited to 202mph.
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Ferrari 488 Pista
No Geneva show should go without a hot new Ferrari, and the 488 Pista doesn't disappoint. The 488 Pista – a more powerful, lighter variant of the 488 GTB, just as the 458 Speciale was to the 458 – covers 0-62mph in 2.85sec, while the official quoted figure for the LaFerrari is “under 3.0sec”.
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Ferrari 488 Pista
The model uses the most powerful V8 in Ferrari’s history and is described as an “extreme evolution” of the turbo unit that won International Engine of the Year in both 2016 and 2017.
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Ford Mustang Bullitt
First seen at the Detroit auto show earlier thus year, the exciting news for the UK and Europe is that this special edition is coming over the Atlantic too. This latest iteration of the Mustang Bullitt is the third to pay tribute to the car that appeared in the movie Bullitt on the famous film's 50th anniversary - the first came in the Mustang’s fourth generation in 2001, and then again in 2008 for the fifth-generation Mustang, regarded as a reinvention of the model.
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Ford Mustang Bullitt
Based on the 5.0-litre Mustang, the Bullitt gets 458bhp and 388lb ft - 14bhp more than the standard Mustang’s 444bhp, but 17bhp down on the 475bhp US-spec car.
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Hennessey Venom F5
We couldn't run this feature without a look at this American hypercar. It's in final development now, with its primary aim to become the first production car capable of a speed over 300mph.
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Hennessey Venom F5
Its mighty V8 powerplant features "at least two turbos" capable of 1600bhp - while weighing just 1360 kg (2992 lb). First customer deliveries are estimated to take place in late 2019. Price? Around US$1.6 million (£1.14m).
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Italdesign Zerouno Duerte
The Italdesign Zerouno gains a convertible variant, badged Duerte to cater to demand, after the design house sold all five examples of the coupé it produced.
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Italdesign Zerouno Duerte
The V10 supercar, which makes up part of Italdesign's 50th anniversary celebrations, is capable of over 200mph and has been launched by the famous Turin-based design house, which was founded by Giorgetto Giugiaro in the late 1960s and now part of Volkswagen Group. It marks the first of several planned low-volume models produced by the new Italdesign Automobili Speciali.
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Porsche Mission E Cross Turismo
Porsche pulled a surprise at the show with the unveiling of a new 590bhp electric-powered crossover vehicle based on its upcoming Mission E. Called the Mission E Cross Turismo concept, it is described by the German car maker’s chairman, Oliver Blume, as a feasibility study created by a team of designers and engineers to examine if a market exists for such an outwardly sporting zero-emission ‘cross utility vehicle’.
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Porsche Mission E Cross Turismo
He said it "fuses Mission E design with Panamera Sport Turismo off-road touches" and it is "a unique concept that has instant appeal". Unofficially, it is a rolling blueprint for Porsche’s second electric model, which is set to follow the production version of next year’s Mission E four-door sedan to showrooms in 2021 with the sort of performance that, according to Blume, will not disappoint.
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Rimac C_Two
The statistics unveiled alongside this new electric hypercar are almost as eye-catching as its design; the car can achieve 0-60mph in 1.85secs, and 0-100mph in 4.3secs from a rolling start, said the company. That puts it on a par with the forthcoming new Tesla Roadster, which is claimed to do those benchmark sprints in 1.9secs and 4.2secs respectively.
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Rimac C_Two
The C_Two, which is only a codename, is the Croatian hypercar firm’s second model. This new model uses a 120kWh lithium battery and develops 1888bhp and 1696lb ft of torque; a top speed of 258mph is claimed and Rimac also says that new liquid-cooled thermal management systems means the car is capable of two full laps of the Nurburgring at full power. It has a claimed range of 404 miles on an NEDC cycle and can be charged to 80% capacity in less than 30 minutes.
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Alpine A110 Pure
The new A110 from Renault-owned Alpine is one of the best-driving new cars we've driven in a long time, so we're very excited by this new lightweight version. It weighs just 1080kg (2376 lb) thanks to a pared-back specifications list that does away with unnecessary luxuries.
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Alpine A110 Pure
Alpine said the Pure retains the “minimalist approach” of the Premiere Edition - the trim offered with the car at launch - but that it is more “driver focused”. Drive will come from the same turbocharged 1.8-litre four-cylinder engine producing 249bhp and 236lb ft giving a power-to-weight ratio of 231bhp/tonne.
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