Long before the first day of the Geneva Motor Show, manufacturers habitually begin jostling for attention by revealing what they’ll be revealing, so to speak. Here’s a selection of the Geneva 2012 announcements that have already been announced.


Of more relevance to today will be the XY Concept pictured here, which offers a more modest 115bhp diesel engine housed in a sumptuously trimmed and specially painted 208 bodyshell. Peugeot calls it “Crimson” but in pictures it looks more like the kind of hue that pop star Prince might have favoured during his Purple Rain phase. Apparently it changes colour depending on how you look at it. The interior, meanwhile, is trimmed in crimson (purple) and pearl grey leather.
XY sounds like a reference to the male chromosome pair, so it will be interesting to see if Peugeot will elaborate on its reasoning for the name.











