Hamann's Lineup in Geneva

First off I would like to say thank you to the whole Hamann team for letting me get to see the cars at the car show and having a great time. In this post I mainly just want to show you my favorite pictures I took of the cars and say thank you. I'll make individual entries on the separate cars soon and you can find them on here. 

As you might be able to tell, I really fell in love with the Macan and the colors just looked amazing and as always, the Aventador is an amazing car to capture with all it's angles and interesting details. I just wanted to let you guys enjoy the pictures instead of focusing on the stats. I'll do a post with the stats soon though!

A Gift from Aston Martin

So this post and the others I'm going to be posting soon are a bit behind, because they are about the car show and I apologize for that, I've just been super busy and with practice and race season coming up it's hard to fit everything in. Overall I just wanted to say thank you to Aston Martin for sending me VIP tickets to their stand at the Geneva Motor Show, I had an absolute blast!

When I got there with my friend we where asked if we wanted someone to show us around and when we said yes one of their employees came right away and started showing us around the cars. The highlights there where the Vantage GT3, the name was now changed to GT12 because Porsche claims ownership of the GT3 label, the Vulcan, the Lagonda and the matte white Vanquish.

The Vantage GT12 is limited to 100 vehicles and is based on the regular Vanatge, but it is still street legal. The car has a 6 Liter V12 engine capable of producing up to 600 HP and the whole car is lighter as well, it lost 100 kg, compared to the V12 Vantage S. It also has a new carbon front splitter and a rear wing for increased downforce.

The Vulcan is a truly special car which is being built by Aston Martin as well and is limited to only 24 copies. Aston Martin keeps the car for you and takes care of it and then transports it to exclusive track day events where you get private coaching in different cars, including the One-77, building up to the Vulcan. the Vulcan has a massive rear wing for downforce and I was also told that it is more dangerous to drive the car at a slower speed than at high speeds because at low speeds the spoiler doesn't create enough downforce, so you are better off driving fast, where there is more downforce. 

The car is powered by a 7 liter V12 engine producing more than 800 bhp. The power is then directed to the rear wheels. The car that was at the car show wasn't a real one, just a model, but it still looked stunning!

The next car which I want to mention is the Lagonda. This car is only available in Europe, South Africa and the Middle East. I don't know a lot about it, except the fact that you can customize it completely to your desires and that it's intended to be the best sports saloon out there. 

The last car and a beautiful one is the Vanquish Volante. It is powered by a V12 producing 568 bhp, which lets this car go from 0-62 in 3.8 seconds. It has a top speed of 197 mph and delivers 630 Nm of torque. The version there was colored in a matte white which looked amazing. It was also fully customized by the Q branch of Aston Martin and had yellow highlights everywhere which looked awesome. What impressed me the most was the attention to detail and how it is possible to pretty much customize every part of the car. Even the paddle shifters got customized so that the colors would fit perfectly with the car! It's also possible to buy a matching luggage set with the car which is pretty cool and there is enough space in the trunk to make this possible, which is not always the case with sports cars.

To wrap things up I want to thank Aston Martin for giving me this great opportunity to experience all their cars and hopefully it will work out again next year :)

Pagani Huayra

So the Geneva Motor Show will ended on March 15th at 7 PM and it will be another year until we get to visit it again. While being there I got to see a bunch of nice cars and I was able to talk to a lot of different people and find out a lot about the cars, but two cars that really stuck out to me where the Huayras, which where being presented at the Pagani stand. 

I was lucky enough to be allowed into the stand to take pictures of the Paganis. If you haven't heard of the Huayra yet, I'll give you some basic info on the car. Production of the Huayra started in 2012, but all Huayras have been sold out, due to the fact that it is a limited run of 100 cars. It's a 2 door, 2 seat hypercar, which is powered by a twin turbo Mercedes-AMG V12 engine. The V12 puts out 730 horsepower and 1000 newton meters of torque, which propel the Huayra from 0-60 mph in 3.2 second and hitting a top speed of 231 mph (372 km/h). 

Even though you can't buy a regular Huayra anymore, you may still be in luck because Pagani is bringing a roadster version of the Huayra to Geneva in 2016. The current Huayra is priced at $1.6 million (1,198,000 €), so I will assume that the Huayra will be in that pice range as well, should you want one of these super exclusive cars. I apologize for the picture quality,. I had a tough time with the artificial lighting at the Car Show with the Paganis, but I promise I'll do a better job should I see one in the city sometime :) 

For now stay tuned, because I have a lot more content from the car show coming up in the next few days. If you have any questions feel free to ask! 

Geneva Motor Show

As you probably know the car show is coming up soon, March 5-15 to be precise, with the press days being the 3-4 of March, and I'm quite excited. Not only because there will be a bunch of new releases from Koenigsegg all the way to Ferrari to Aston Martin, but also because we can probably expect to see some nice cars cruising the streets of Geneva as well. For example last year at the car show there was a McLaren P1 at the 4 Seasons and a bunch of other supercars. 

I have some pictures of the P1 which was there during the car show last year, although I took the pictures in September. Sadly the cover was on while I was there, but one of the rims was poking out just a bit, revealing the P Zero Corsa tires on the P1. 

Hopefully we'll see at least one P1 on the streets and if not I'll have some other very special posts coming up from the car show anyway, so stay tuned for that :)

The i8 has Finally Arrived in Geneva

The i8. One if BMWs newest creations and one of the best looking ones as well. Not only that, but it's a hybrid as well! And who doesn't love to do something good for the environment? 

The last time I saw an i8 was in Hamburg at the airport last Sunday, when I was flying back to Geneva and other than that I've only seen them at some other airports, like Frankfurt, but never on the streets, so, naturally, I'm quite excited about this one. Hopefully there will be more around soon, because these cars are just stunning.

BMW launched the i8 in June, 2014. The i8 is a plug in hybrid which, according to BMW, only uses 2.1 liters of fuel for 100 kilometers, which is about 112 mpg. Other than that the car is powered by a 1.5 liter twin turbo 3 cylinder gasoline engine, combined with an electric motor, putting out a combined 362 horsepower, letting it get up to 62 mph in 4.4 seconds. 

The interior of the car is also beautifully designed and you have the feeling that it really keeps the driver in mind. There are six paint jobs available, although they all look very similar. The seatbelts in the interior of the one I saw where dyed in the same electryfiyng blue as the exterior paint job, which really contrasts nicely. Even better, the car's doors open up, giving the i8 another bit of special attention, although it's not exactly hard to pick out of the crowd with it's wavy and futuristic design. The car's only real downfall is the price, on average customers paid $ 136,650, which is quite a bit, considering that a Tesla Model S costs a lot less and is fully electric, but luckily someone bought it already and is letting me get my shots in and as long as it stays that way I'm happy ;) 

Jaguar F Type

So I was in Hamburg this weekend, that's why I didn't get anything posted, so sorry for that, but I'm going to do a post today which I think you'll enjoy. My friend from Hamburg really likes the Jaguar F Type, so I thought I'd do a post on that.

The F Type you can see in these pictures is one I saw in the summer around the 4 Seasons hotel and the video is from late August as well. 

The F Type is built by Jaguar and comes in multiple base models you can choose from. The models are: The regular F Type, then there is the F Type S, F Type S AWD, F Type R and the F Type R AWD. All of these models come in coupé form and also as a convertible. There is also the F Type Project 7 which is even faster, but that version is only available as a convertible and it has 575 horsepower. The regular Jaguar F type boasts a V6 engine putting out 340 horsepower, which lets it sprint from 0-62 mph in 5.3 seconds. The coupé costs $ 92,000 and the convertible costs $ 98,000. The F Type S and S AWD have a V6 with 380 horsepower, which takes the S to 62 mph in 4.9 seconds and the S AWD in 5.1. The S Coupé costs $ 108,000 and the convertible costs $ 122,000. The all wheel drive versions cost $ 119,000 and $ 133,000. Finally the F Type R and R AWD have a V8 engine putting out 550 horsepower, which let's the R get to 62 mph in 4.2 seconds and the R AWD in 4.1 seconds. The R coupé costs $ 145,000 and the convertible costs $ 153,000. The all wheel drive versions cost $ 153,000 and then $ 161,000 for the convertible. Other than that, it's a stunning car, which is just beautiful! All of these aren't cheap, but definitely not as expensive as a off-the-line Rolls Royce Phantom or Lamborghini Aventador. 

If you guys have any suggestions for the next post, or if there are any cars you would like to see soon just write it in the comments below or message me on the Cars of Geneva Facebook page. Also stay tuned for the Geneva Motor Show which is coming up in March, because if everything works out like it's supposed to, I'll have one, or two, very special posts coming up around that time ;)

3 Aventadors in Geneva

Yesterday something truly awesome happened! I was at home studying for my exams when I got a text from my friend letting me know that there where two Lambos parked outside the 4 Sesons hotel in Geneva. I grabbed my camera right away and went down to the train station to grab the next train heading into Geneva. Once there I ran down to the 4 Seasons in hope of still catching the two to get some pictures. On my way there I caught sight of an Aventador in a side alley and when I turned around to look it was the two my friend told me about, but there was third one as well!! 

Needless to say I got out my camera immediately to start taking pictures. I'll put them below. I also filmed the Aventadors while they where driving. I followed them to the other side of the bridge where they stopped at a traffic light and there I had the opportunity to talk to the owners for a second. After seeing the one license plate, which belonged to one of the guys from Future Photography, I asked if it was them and they said yes. I then talked to them some more and found out they where just up in the mountains for a photoshoot when a snowstorm came along and they had to leave again. 

After that the cars drove off leaving me with pictures and some awesome footage! Thanks to the Future Photography team for all that. You can check out their work here: http://www.futurephotography.ch

A quick note to the pictures: It was getting dark at the time I was taking the pictures and they where almost always driving so most of the pictures turned out a bit unsharp, so I apologize for that, but I hope you like them anyway :)

And if any of you ever wondered what an Aventador sounds like watch this video I took!