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Geneva was huge this year and ran the gamut from supercars for oil-rich playboys to everyday SUVs to more than and better EVs and plug-in hybrids. Geneva has the reward of being the showtime major motorcar show of the yr, give or accept Detroit. And Detroit is losing cachet as international automakers realize Michigan is not a place where y'all sell many strange cars. Mercedes-Benz spent a million dollars, more or less, to launch the new 1000-Wagen, and then pulled the plug on 2019 participation at Detroit.

But yous're non here for the within baseball game — y'all're hither for the cars. Here's our have on the best new cars of the 88th International Geneva Motor Prove, with the focus on mainstream cars and crossovers.

Geneva is a show-off prove for the German language automakers since Switzerland is next door and there's no Frankfurt show in 2018 (odd years simply). We're seeing companies such equally BMW trying to take the upper range fifty-fifty more upscale: the price before options needs to be on the loftier finish of $100,000 if you're going to compete with the likes of Bentley and Aston Martin, and not just try to i-up Audi, Cadillac, and Lexus. Thus: the BMW M8 Gran Coupe. Over the years, BMW has shifted from six Serial to 8 Serial and back to designate the high end of BMW's non-sedan line. Now it'southward the 8 Series. Merely that'southward at the high loftier-stop.

For the residual of us, Hyundai did a good task at Geneva with a broad range of offerings, from the Le Fil Rouge concept that showcases the company's next design language, through the Santa Fe midsize SUV — which may accept the industry's all-time assortment of standard safe features, including bullheaded spot detection — through extensions of the line such as the electric Kona and Nexo 2nd-generation fuel cell vehicle.

The Geneva show runs through March 18. The international auto show circuit resumes with the New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) March 30-Apr 8 in New York City.

Check back Monday for our all-time loftier-end cars from Geneva. Lord knows, there were enough of them.