Why write about flowers on a car design site? A passing interest in floristry aside, it’s worth casting your eye idley around a show to see what’s happening in terms of stand and fashion trends. In Geneva, we noticed some very expensive looking, rather lovely arrangements of lillies on the Maserati and Rolls Royce stands. Here, literally every stand is decked out with vases of white flowers. Why? Well, unless someone happened to misplace the decimal point when ordering flowers, we suspect the reason brands are going for white blooms is that they convey freshness, purity, clarity and a level of real premium-ness.

The notable exception to the rule here is Infiniti, who’s stand architecture, stand staff uniforms and flowers, is resplendent in purple. It certainly helps them stand out.

By Joe Simpson

In the scheme of Chinese copy-cat designs, this obviously Hummer-aping Dongfeng really has to be seen to be believed. What really took us by surprise was the interior design though. Incredibly, it’s actually managed to be less-well packaged than the Hummer itself.

But the interior design execution is better than the hummer with quite a neat gauge pack and some nice enough purple-blue lighting. Pity it’s all so plastic and none of the knobs actually move or turn though.

By Joe Simpson