IS THE MOTOR SHOW DEAD?
ON 28 FEBRUARY, THREE DAYS BEFORE IT WAS DUE TO OPEN ITS DOORS TO THE WORLD’S MEDIA, THE 2020 GENEVA MOTOR SHOW WAS CANCELLED.
As coronavirus swept across Europe, the Swiss government took the unprecedented decision to ban events with more than 1,000 people, a restriction that mercifully allowed Matt Cardle’s Switzerland stadium tour to continue unaffected.
We’ll never know if it was the correct move, health-wise, to cancel Geneva 2020. Assuming there’s at least one of you out there reading these words, and thus the human race hasn’t been wiped out since this magazine went to press, we can probably chalk it up under ‘sensible precaution’.
As coronavirus victims go, an auto industry shindig in one of the world’s richest countries hardly ranks as the most tragic. But, metaphorically
