{"id":25921,"date":"2012-03-16T09:34:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T09:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=25921"},"modified":"2022-06-22T17:32:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:32:19","slug":"geneva-salon-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/geneva-salon-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva Salon 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course there were supercars. This is the Geneva motor show, home of the breed, and it wouldn\u2019t be complete with half a dozen new ones. Some you can buy, if you happen to have six or even seven figures in loose change for an impractical two-seat car, and some you really can\u2019t: one-off styling exercises that (mostly) deserve to be built, but never will.<\/p>\n

The star of this year\u2019s Geneva show falls into the former camp. The Ferrari F12 Berlinetta <\/a>(Below) is the fastest, most powerful road-going Ferrari ever, with 730 horsepower and a top speed of 211mph. Despite a price tag expected to be around \u00a3250,000, Ferrari showed the car to 450 clients before its Geneva unveiling and 80 per cent bought on the spot.<\/p>\n

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By contrast only one Lamborghini Aventador J will ever be made, commissioned by one supercar freak at a cost of nearly \u00a32m because the standard Aventador<\/a> was just too common. Lambo brought it to the show because bespoke personal commissions like this are now big business for the supercar industry\u2019s big names, but the hoo-ha they made over it seemed a bit excessive for a one-off; they just didn\u2019t want to be forgotten after Ferrari.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a mark of the scale of the VW group that the Lambo was just one of four outrageous cars it was launching. Bugatti<\/a> revealed easily the fastest, most powerful open-topped production road car ever made, its new Vitesse version of the Veyron using the 1184-horsepower, sixteen-cylinder engine from the closed-roof Bugatti Super Sports<\/a>, the world\u2019s fastest production car.<\/p>\n