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Geneva was huge this year and ran the gamut from supercars for oil-rich playboys to everyday SUVs to more and better EVs and plug-in hybrids. Geneva has the advantage of being the first major machine show of the year, give or take Detroit. And Detroit is losing cachet as international automakers realize Michigan is not a place where yous sell many foreign cars. Mercedes-Benz spent a million dollars, more or less, to launch the new Yard-Wagen, and and then pulled the plug on 2022 participation at Detroit.

But you're not here for the inside baseball — you're here for the cars. Here's our take on the all-time new cars of the 88th International Geneva Motor Testify, with the focus on mainstream cars and crossovers.

Geneva is a show-off show for the German automakers since Switzerland is adjacent door and there'south no Frankfurt show in 2022 (odd years only). We're seeing companies such as BMW trying to take the upper range even more than upscale: the price before options needs to exist on the high end of $100,000 if yous're going to compete with the likes of Bentley and Aston Martin, and non just try to one-upwards Audi, Cadillac, and Lexus. Thus: the BMW M8 Gran Coupe. Over the years, BMW has shifted from vi Series to eight Series and back to designate the high terminate of BMW'southward non-sedan line. Now it's the eight Serial. Only that'southward at the loftier high-end.

For the rest of usa, Hyundai did a practiced chore at Geneva with a wide range of offerings, from the Le Fil Rouge concept that showcases the visitor'southward next blueprint language, through the Santa Iron midsize SUV — which may take the industry's all-time array of standard rubber features, including blind spot detection — through extensions of the line such equally the electric Kona and Nexo 2nd-generation fuel jail cell vehicle.

The Geneva show runs through March eighteen. The international motorcar show circuit resumes with the New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) March thirty-April viii in New York City.

Bank check dorsum Monday for our best high-stop cars from Geneva. Lord knows, there were plenty of them.