Sometimes I created sub-pages of exhibitors, sometimes only the .jpg is available from this page.
The 65th Salon international de l'automobile was held in Geneva between the 9th of March, until the 19th of March, 1995. This year the show was extended: one new hall and a new automuseum was added.
Let's see in alphabetic order what cars were there. If You want to see the cars of the highlights of the show click on the manufacturer's name after the report about it.

• AC Schnitzer -> Rinspeed
• Albar Two buggies.
• Alfa Romeo Modified 155. New engine: two-litre Twin Spark 110 kW (150 HP). There was the DTM version as well. The new 145 and 146 debuted in Switzerland as did the GTV and the Spider.
• Alpina: New B8, based on M3 and the B8, based on the new 7-series. Alpina B8
• Aston Martin Nothin' interestin' this time.
• Audi Big fuss around the A4.
• Automobiles High-Tech From an old Camaro they created the Aryathis prototype Aryathis
• Avantgarde -> Rinspeed
• Bentley The new Azure was in the focus Bentley
• Bertone. There was a Lancia K based coupe, the Bertone Kayak and a cigar-lookin' electro, the ZER (Zero Emission Record).
• Bitter The German firm is back from recession. Only one car posed on the stand, the Type 3, which is based on the new Opel Omega.
• Brabus/TVR They shared the place 'cuz the common importeur. TVR showed the Cerbera here.
• Bugatti/Lotus Rumors said that Italdesign stopped the development of the EB112 due to money problems. So there were "only" EB110s. The Lotus part exhibited the new Esprit S4S and the Esprit 300 Sport. If You want to see them click here: Lotus.
• Callaway Swiss premier of the American Chevrolet tuner.
• Carlsson C74 Mercedes 600 based 7.4 litre engine 555 HP 280 km/h max. speed.
• Castagna Two Italian businessmen bought the right to own the name last summer and in five months they completed this car. Pictures on the Castagna page.
• Caterham Swiss premier of the 21.
• Chrysler Nothin' new.
• Daewoo Debut of the South Korean manufacturer in Switzerland. ItalDesign did a prototype on Daewoo base. The name is Bucrane and was exhibited on both stands.
• Daihatsu Modified Cuore (Mira in Japan). Just to make the visitors green they brought there the Mira Turbo from Japan (it's available there). Also a prototype from the 1993 Tokyo Show, the Multi Personal 4.
• DeTomaso A totally open version of the Guara but they didn't give me any info on it.
• Esoro/Horlacher Two Swiss electro-car developer. The latter showed a new model, named Saxi and it's like a coffe-automat on wheels.
• Excalibur the emission-legal Cobra replica and the not-Mercedes-replica-just-lookin'-similar neoclassic.
• Exel French electro.
• Ferrari. The main atttraction was the F50 and the F355 Competizione but I forgot to ask details about the latter. There's some pictures and info on the Ferrari in GenevaFiat Ther was the new Barchetta. This car is featured among other Italian sportscars!
• Ford Revised Escort, Windstar, new Sauber-Ford C14 and for the supercar lovers, arrived from Detroit the GT90.
• General Motors USA Due to the high demand of US cars in Switzerland they are exhbitin' in Geneva every year. But there was nothin' exciting.
• Grandin An ugly lookin' Jeep-wanna-be from French. It's 3.1 metre long, powered by an 1.4 litre Peugeot engine.
• Heuliez French designer group kinda like Pininfarina. They're manufacturing the Citroen XM. Their prototype's name is Vent Do'Ouest and it's a ZX cabrio.
• Honda European premier of the Odyssey MPV (named here Shuttle) plus the NSX T-top.
• Hotzenblitz This is a German washing machine maker and they created a small town car. Well, I have the separated section for them for months. -> Hotzenblitz
• Hyundai HCD-III fresh from Detroit. I was wondering why they painted Gilda on the car, but I got no answer.
• Irmscher Modified Tigra. But if something is ugly you cannot change it.
• ItalDesign One of the plans how the new Lamborghini will look like is the Italdesign Cala' and the Daewoo based Bucrane.
• Italian Car Strange lookin' three-wheeler from You guess where. The name is: Modulo GT1100
• Jaguar Last year they stormed the show with the new XJ so this year there wasn't any novelties.
• Karmann They will manufacture the Ford Escort cabrio so that was there along with the Kia Sportage, which also made in Osnabruck.
• Kia Nuthin' new.
• Lada Samara everywhere.
• Lamborghini: Diablo 30 SE.
• Lancia new Delta 3d version, named HPE.
• Maserati They exhibited their whole range. The racing version of the Ghibli'd be mentioned.
• Mazda To honor the Swiss debut of the new 323 they exhibited a few old Mazdas: from the '60s 'til the '80s there were 5 older vehicles.
• Mega The French Aixam-Mega concern has lotsa parts: they're producing hobbycars, minicars and a weird sportscar. Check out the Mega page for more info.
• Mercedes There were "Lego-cars" in the history of the automobile e.g the old Fiat 500 (Topolino) has had a soft-top so You'd easily convert the small "limo" into a "cabrio. So Mercedes exhibited the Vario Research Car. They played a game with the journalists: now you see the car, now You don't! From time to time they hide the car, tucked it to the back of the stand and then presented it again with big fuss. The other interesting car was the SL Limited Edititon. 40 years ago Stirling Moss drove a Mercedes 300 SLR and won the Mille Miglia... There were a few technical novelties: most interesting was the XBag project: 17 airbag defend the passengers of the vehicle.
• Michalak The German design-studio, whose previous concept car, the Conciso has been bought by a Canadian diamond-mine onwer got a wrecked-nose Viper from one of their main client: Chrysler (Michalak designin' interiors and such). So they redesigned the nose, altered the interior, changed the windshield and named the car Challenger (58KB). One of the designers told me that this Viper wasn't excellent quality. "This car is one-year old and it rusts all over".
• Microcar The main profile of the French Jeanneau is the ship-makin'. Although it may sound contradiction but they also producing mini towncars. So which of their product'd You expect at an autoshw?
• Mitsubishi The Swiss debut of the all-new European designed and built Carisma which is solely destined for the European market. It will be built in the Netherlands. Other interesting models? The "new" 3000 GT, which didn't show up in the official Mitsubishi press pack and the Space Gear minivan. Well, here is a Mitsubishi page for you.
• Nissan new Maxima.
• Opel Another "Lego-car", the Maxx. On the racing scene there was the new Calibra DTM-version. More details on the Opel in Geneva page.
• Peugeot A soon-to-be-produced hardtop on the 306 cabrio, the Ion electro and two special versions of the 806. On the Peugeot page, you'd find more details about the racers which were presented.
• Pininfarina They designed the Ferrari F50, they are buildin' the 456GT, the Fiat Coupe and the Peugeot 306 cabrio. So they put samples there.
• Porsche Numerous variations on the 911 theme.
• Renault The Evado concept is a sneak-preview of the Laguna wagon, which will be on the market in the autumn. They presented a fantastic parade of racing cars. Most of them featured on the Renault page. There is the new Spider as well.
• Reliant There was the very ugly Sabre, which caused the fail of Reliant (they were just saved by an engineering firm).
• Rinspeed Do not believe when You read that their new Roadster is Swiss designed and built. It's a lie! The car was designed by Daniel R. Panoz in the States back in 1989 and is on the market since 1992 as Panoz Roadster. The chief of Rinspeed altered a few things, so now two versions made in the States: the Panoz Roadster for the American and the Rinspeed Roadster for the European market. Rinspeed importing the products of the German Audi-modifier Avantgarde and the German BMW-modifier AC Schnitzer directory of my ftp site..
• Rover There letters for You: MGF. I have some details about it with pictures ktud MG dir but I'd rather recommend David Hackett's MGF page
• Sbarro There was a Ferrari Testarossa based dark green colored sports coupe, named Alca d'Or (49 KB) . It was designed and made in the design school of Franco Sbarro. The pupils also made a city car, named Mandarine.
• Seat I was told that the Seat-version of the VW Sharan was presented. I didn't notice that :-)
• Skoda Swiss debut of the new Felicia. The Skoda started the celebration of the centenarium.
• SsangYong Finally a manufacturer, which first debuted in Hungary and then in Switzerland! The Korean group presented the pretty Musso off-roader.
• Steyr-Daimler-Puch: Puch G everywhere.
• Strosek Their pin-headlight Diablo is a lot prettier than the original but it's hardly new.
• SubaruThere was nothin' to be excited about. But wait! I scanned a picture of the rally version of the Impreza.
• Sunel The Swiss company importing electros from all around the world: from Hawaii sourcing the SunRay, from Dania the City- el (40 KB) , from French the Erad Spacia (84 KB)
• Suzuki Swiss debut of the new family car, named Baleno.
• Toyota 5-door version of the RAV4 was the highlight of the huge Toyota/Lexus stand.
• Twike Swiss electro prototype. Three-wheeler and little bit strange lookin'.
• Valmet This Finnish company manufactures the Saab 900 cabrio. They designed a new kind of soft-top so they created a prototype "topped" with this soft-top.
• Venturi Nuthin' new but after the show I got info about their new Atlantique.
• Volkswagen They concentrate on the Sharan MPV.
• Volta This is another French electro, but I have more info about this. So go Volta
• Volvo BTCC version of the saloon. As I don't have info just a picture I'm leaving the thumbnail version. Click on the Volvo 850 BTCC saloon name.
• Zagato The downall of the once famous Italian studio'd be seen: small place, shitty quality press pack (one-page photocopied description of the Hyena Final Edition with a slide).
• Zlatko Last minute arrival of a Croatian company. The representatives could not speak English, but they speak French. Chris Rees also speaks French so here goes what he got from them: Ferrari 308-based glass-fibre bodied coupe prototype, claimed max. speed is over 400 km/h. (It's ridiculous). Here is an image: Zlatko.jpg (47 KB).

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