The annual Geneva auto show opens next week, with an even more exotic blend of sports and performance vehicles than usual, from the tiny Smart Cabriolet to the Ferrari F360 Fiorano. All are expected to arrive in the United States this fall, at the start of the 2000 model year. A new Italian exotic car, the DeTomaso Guara Spyder, will mark that brand's return to the U.S. market in 2000.
Geneva always provides a showcase for some of the most unusual and innovative concepts in Europe.
General Motors' Opel subsidiary will unwrap the mid-engine Speedster. The Italian coachbuilders will be out in full force as well. Pininfarina, of course, will focus on its latest creation, the new Ferrari F360, as well as a new compact offroader, the Pajero Pinin, that it will build for Japanese automaker Mitsubishi. Italdesign will trot out its latest iteration of the Bugatti EB118. Bertone will unveil a coupe study, the Bella, based on the Alfa Romeo 166.