Try to think of a Swiss automaker, and you may draw a blank, unless you're a devotee of small coachbuilders and specialty shops. Switzerland's automotive neutrality means that none of the bigs has a home-field advantage in Geneva.
Floor space is allocated very evenly, and every automaker has a fair shot at stealing the show.
It also draws most of the major design houses, including ItalDesign, Pininfarina, and Bertone, and the tone in Geneva is always lightened by specialty shops like Sbarro and Rinspeed. Our Nikon CoolPix 950 didn't miss a pixel of the action. Perhaps the most momentous unveiling was that of the first new Morgan in about a half-century, the Aero 8. Production begins in July 2000, with 200 units to be produced in the first year. The last of GM's ten show cars for the '99-'00 autoshow season was designed and built in Europe by an international team.