Looking is free: Luxury, high-end rides abundant at Geneva auto show
If you like gawking at breathtaking sports cars with enormous engines, flowing aerodynamics and expensive carbon-fiber bodies, then you are in the right place at the Geneva International Motor Show.
If you want to do more than look, however, that will take money. Lots and lots of money.
The Geneva show is a traditional showplace for high-end sports cars that offer speeds similar to those of Formula One racers, for prices that start at hundreds of thousands and soar up from there into the millions. It opens to the public at the Palexpo exhibition centre on Thursday and runs through March 17.
Here are six of the eye-catching beasts crouching on the show floor.
Bugatti La Voiture Noire
Unveiled by French supercar maker Bugatti, the one-off La Voiture Noire, or “the Black Car”, is outshining other supercars at the auto show with not just its astonishing specs, but for being the world’s most expensive new car. And it was sold before the show even opened.