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THOMAS LUETHI
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Even loyal Geneva exhibitors such as Frank M. Rinderknecht with his Rinspeeed AG were disappointed after the GIMS rejection of the “lack of planning” of the people in charge of the salon and rather angry.
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Many large exhibitors moved the presentations of their world premieres scheduled for the Geneva Salon to the Internet. For example Audi with the new A3 …
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… or Fiat with the 500 Electric, which is only available in a purely electric manner and has become larger. The previous Cinquecento continues to run under Classic.
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And as another surprise, Koenigsegg showed his first four-seater. The Gemera …
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![... has a 3-cylinder petrol engine and three electric motors, which together produce 1700 HP and 3500 Nm. It goes to 100 km / h in 1.9 seconds and continues to over 400 km / h.]()
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… has a 3-cylinder petrol engine and three electric motors, which together produce 1700 HP and 3500 Nm. It goes to 100 km / h in 1.9 seconds and continues to over 400 km / h.
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Among the exhibitors booked for the Geneva Salon (GIMS), there was less talk about the Federal Council’s decision to ban major events and thus the 90th Salon. All the more the way the salon organizers dealt with it. “Having no plan B in the drawer, although the cancellation was foreseeable, is simply unprofessional,” says Frank M. Rinderknecht (64). It would have been his 42nd motor show in a row.
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He leaves it open whether Rinderknecht will come to GIMS again next year with his think tank Rinspeed. “Since I unveiled my new creations at the CES tech trade show in Las Vegas in January, the Geneva Salon has not been as important to me as it was a few years ago.” It sounds similar from other smaller exhibitors. They felt pretty let down by the GIMS organizers. The big ones are different.
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The big ones were prepared
In the run-up, they campaigned for a cancellation of the salon and quickly put their novelty shows planned for Geneva on the Internet. There they published press conference lifestreams, recorded in mostly sterile studios. These appearances looked as bland as a sip of stale water without an audience, but were informative for the interested media and thus useful for the car brands.
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“Bread and butter” and super athletes
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Athlete with methanol
The also belongs to the Exotics category Nathalie First Edition of the German CEO and engineer Roland Gumpert (75). Especially for the now mass-produced electric athlete named after the Gumpert subsidiary: Firstly, the lightweight body consists of up to 50 percent organic flax, secondly, the Nathalie has a fuel cell in 100 seconds and a speed of 2.5 km / h in 2.5 seconds. which produces hydrogen from methanol and uses it to generate electricity on board. With 65 liters of methanol and a full backup battery, the super sports car, which was built just 500 times and costs a good 440,000 francs, manages an impressive 820 km range until the next methanol fuel stop.
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“Koenigsegg Motor Show”
Made a virtue out of necessity Christian von Koenigsegg (47). The Swede, who is known for Hypercars and is a loyal Geneva exhibitor, was the only one to use his stand infrastructure in the empty Palexpo exhibition halls to broadcast a live stream there and to show the “Geneva Koenigsegg Motor Show”. The designer had two world premieres in his luggage: the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut, which with 1622 hp and the bioethanol five-liter V8 is said to exceed the speed record of the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport at 489.5 km / h. And the first Koenigsegg four-seater Gemera. This is powered by a three-cylinder petrol engine and three electric motors with a total of 1700 hp and 3500 Nm. It goes to 100 km / h in 1.9 seconds and continues to over 400 km / h. With such numbers, even Tesla boss would remain Elon Musk the spit away.
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Too bad for car fans
Despite the fact that the major car manufacturers were able to present their Geneva innovations to the media – thanks to the Internet – the major losers of the GIMS cancellation, along with the organizers and the smaller exhibitors and partners, include 650,000 expected car fans as visitors. You must now be satisfied with images from the web or this report here.
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