This is very sad news. The Geneva Motor Show was an iconic event which featured so many notable debuts over the decades.

Always used to go to the NEC and Earls Court shows but the continental shows always seemed far more exotic.

We went to the Geneva show last year and a couple of years before then. As a petrol head for many years it felt like a pilgrimage to actually be walking the halls under the lights and seeing so much amazing machinery. For years I had marvelled at the concept cars by Sbarro and to be able to walk round their stand was an outstanding memory.

This year we opted to got to Barcelona for the F1 winter test instead and heard about the cancellation of this years show while we were in Spain.

We will miss our boys-own drive through France to a little town in the Jura mountains north of Geneva and the dice with death over the snow-covered Col de la Faucille in the morning.