Geneva Motor Show 2017: Cars You Didn't Know About - Part II

1. David Brown Speedback GT

Coachbuilders may be going out of business but coachbuilding will never fall out of favour. The best way to exemplify this statement is to talk about the David Brown Speedback GT. It is a car that is hand built and it takes over 7,200 hours to build one. Yes, the design is inspired from one of the most iconic cars of all time, the legendary Aston Martin DB5 but it by no means is a rip off of the original. Instead it attempts to offer the sensebilities and durability of modern technology with the gorgeous styling of the sixties. It has a 5.0-litre supercharged V8 that makes 507PS of power and 625Nm of torque. This helps propel the Speedback GT from 0-100kmph in 4.5 seconds and on to a top speed of 250kmph. You can have a bespoke Speedback GT of yours by opting for a range of personalisation options to make your car stand out. Not that you would need to stand out with a car this unique.

2. Pininfarina Fittipaldi EF7 Vision Gran Turismo

Pininfarina, as a coachbuilder, struggled to remain prominent in today's times where cost reduction is the norm for most carmakers. The Fittipaldi EF7 Vision GT, though, paints a different story. It has made Pininfarina more prominent than ever and more relevant than most carmakers would admit it should be. But here is the thing - while the 4.8-litre mid-mounted naturally aspirated dry sump V8 and the eight-into-one exhaust system are cool, the fact that it makes nearly 600PS power and revs to 9000rpm is manic.

With a paddle-shift sequential gearbox, rear-view camera system to replace the interior rear-view mirror, and fixed buckets with adjustment for pedals and steering, this car needs to apologise to no one. After all, it is built on a monocoque chassis made from carbon fibre. The rest of the bodywork is carbon fibre too and the car has double wishbone suspension front and back with adjustable anti-roll bars. Only 39 will be built and you will be able to drive it even if you cannot afford it -- in the Gran Tourismo game, of course. Those who can buy one of the 39 cars will coached by former world champion and two-time Indy 500 winner Emerson Fittipaldi (whose company Fittipaldi Motors is behind this manic car).

3. Quant 48Volt

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When you talk about electric vehicles, seldom is their design considered something important. They are allowed to be weird, crazy, outworldly (insert other words here to your liking) but not normal, regular or sedate. The Quant 48Volt changes all that. It marries the crazy design of the EVs with that of a sportscar. What you get is a car that looks quite nice from almost every angle you glance upon it. Oh, it is a rocket of a car. It has four electric motors onboard that generate a combined 560PS power and send 2000Nm of torque to each wheel. With 300kWh  battery capacity, the car is claimed to go over 1,000km on a single full charge. The car can seat four; go from 0-100kmph in 2.4 seconds, and attain a top speed of 300kmph. If such is the future in store for us, we can't wait for it!

4. Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus SCG003S

A new carmaker has set its sights on becoming the fastest to go around the Green Hell. The new outfit is called Sucderia Cameron Glickenhaus and its weapon of choice for the task is the SCG003S. The S after 003 stands for Stradale, by the way. This car has a 4.4-litre twin-turbo engine onboard and it makes 800PS power and 850Nm torque. As a result, the SCG003S can go from 0-100kmph in less than 3 seconds and go on to reach a top speed of 350kmph. To ensure it is able to achieve those numbers, there is a seven-speed sequential transmission onboard to send all that power to the wheels. Sitting on a carbon fibre chassis, the SCG003S has double wishbone suspension front and back with push-rod dampers. What's not to love about it?

5. Quattroruote Scilla

Do you know what cars would look like in future? This is what the transportation design students at the Instituto Europeo di Design (IED), Pininfarina and Quattroruote magazine think a car would look like in future. It is about the size of a Ferrari 488GTB but sits over four inches closer to the ground. The shape of the car has been envisioned to carry two people in a fighter jet-like layout. Each wheel is envisioned to have its own electric motor with semi-autonomous capabilities as well. There is not much to talk about this car except that it makes you ponder about questions such as whether this is what the cars of future would really look like and what about comfort of occupants in such cars.

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