2022 Geneva show cancelled.

Clearly the nail in the coffin. Geneva is dead.
The Swiss politicians and AH in Berne clearly are responsible for killing this worldfamous event.
Extremely sad.
Look what happened in Germany with IAA, formerly in Frankfurt and then what a total joke the event was in Munich a few weeks ago. Bicyclists, left wing and green party activists, greenpeace, and all the rest of the pack took over and destroyed everything.
World has changed, and not to the good, and that's super sad.
And then there are people like Herbert Deiss, boss of Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg, who falls in love with all these idiots and supports their ideas and basically shoots in his own foot and ruins his "own" company. That man really needs to see a doctor. Deiss is responsible for hundreds of thousands of employees worldwide and for one of the largest car manufacturers on the planet but he seems to have completely forgotten all that. Clearly the wrong person for that job.

Marcel Massini

 

geneva has been socialist (and broke) for decades.
and the cantonal and city govt have to be some of the dumbest people outside of the usa govt.....
geneva is based on OPM - other people's money....do they honestly think that the local working class is what keeps patek, LV, Hermes, Metropole, 4 Seasons, etc going ??
do they really think visitors with more money than many countries actually want to ride the bus?? or a bike??
they are so damn stupid it is pathetic.

and i am from there.

 

Guys, we carlovers are becoming a species that is facing extinction, whether we like it or not.
Any country in the world needs politicians.
Any politician need votes.
And if VW-boss Deiss is a schmuck, he is a schmuck who needs to sell. He is trying to create a green image for his fraud firm, remember dieselgate?
He'll have to sell something to that future green society, sooner than we all think. Youth of today doesn't give a damn for cars, and certainly not ICE.
And whether Deiss sells ICE cars, EV, bicycles, or vegan sausages, he doesn't care too much, as long as he sells. And eventually that will make sure hundreds of thousands of people will be able to keep their jobs.... In the end of the day, they want to bring bread on the table, even if it would mean they'd have to build Fred and Wilma's car.
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....which is why my house is in valais....

 

They should just move the show permanently. There's no reason to believe the Swiss will ever say "Ok" in the future.

There is absolutely no reason why it has to remain in that venue.

 

Hmm... you may be onto something.

 

Great idea! Perhaps instead to a small island in the Pacific, maybe one with no internet........

 

there is a lot of history tied up with this location.
it was a neutral venue so that all car companies could bring their newest and greatest, and it was nobodies home turf. cant do that anywhere else that has this much money prestige and class.

now, one possibility might be to move it up the lake to montreux, where they are a little less socialist.

 

Very sad state of affairs. As Rolex1 stated " Youth of today doesn't give a damn for cars, and certainly not ICE." That may be true but they all take Uber wich is an automobile to get around, because they don't want to wait for public transit. That in turn is pulling funding from public transit. They will also care about ICE when all the pie in the sky poorly thought out European 2035 proclamations get back tracked when they start running out of READILY AVAILABLE Lithium. I can't think of many countries who have the money to extract Lithium from ocean water. Case point, look at how well extracting fresh water from salt water is working out in California