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We covered all the green concepts earlier, so we left them out of this. Here goes on our top 10 list:

10. Ford Mondeo

Two reasons it shouldn't be here: it isn't set for SA and we all saw James Bond driving it. But the edgy, cool new Ford Mondeo certainly belongs in the Geneva Top 10. So here it is...

9. Citroen C Crosser/Peugeot 4007

What's this — not one but two serious French SUVs? Thought that sort of thing wasn't plausible? Think again — kissing cousins C Crosser and 4007 spun off the new Mitsubishi Outlander base should change that funny Frog SUV perception for good...

8. Fiat Bravo

If Punto put Fiat back on the map then big brother Bravo is ready to thrust Torino right back to the top of the bargain driver pile. Chic looks, Maserati overtones and a stylish Italian package at last make Fiat a serious player again. A deserved appearance here.

7. Mazda2

If this is the sign of things to come from Mazda, then we can't wait for its chic new styling to filter up through the range. And stylish, clean and modern 2 is headed for SA too, efficient new engines and all. Look forward to this one...

6. Dodge Demon

Chrysler Dodge Jeep may be staring a Daimler divorce in the face but that never stopped the Ram from unveiling its fine new Demon roadster onto Europe. As attractive and daring as its wild yellow hue, Demon proves at least the Dodge leg of Detroit's tripod is still fully bearing up.

5. Audi A5

Audi's belated lurch into the sophisticated entry-exec coupe wrought certainly was worth the wait. Da Silva's last Audi brought tears to his eyes but clearly looks the part — especially in S5 incarnation. So where's RS5 to take on that M3?

4. Maserati Granturismo

Bringing latest Ferrari flair to the Trident, Granturismo is one of those cars that look far better in the flesh than in pictures. Trick, chic looks, a pedigree longer than both of our arms, and pretty much everything else to match or better the Hun, it seems that Maserati's got it all going for it at last.

3. KTM XBow

Hold on a second, this is a car show, not a bike show, no? Well get used to KTM as a car and quite a trick street machine at that. Dirt bike kings KTM have built all a bike's best aspects into a four-wheeler and if first impressions are anything to go by, they've knocked it on the nose. Remember the Lotus Seven? Well this is pretty much the new millennium version of that. Exciting stuff!

2. Gumpert Apollo

Gumpert? Apollo? Sound new? Well you bet. But virtually unknown supercar maker Gumpert seemed to tick all the right boxes when designing its new baby. Motor shows best suit exciting prospects and this 500kW no-holds-barred road-going sports racer certainly attracted our attentions. Something completely different, Apollo's a really exciting concept.

1. BMW M3

BMW teased us all for weeks with M3. They gave us photos with a death threat over a 6pm Tuesday embargo. It stood there all day under a veil and when they took it off to move the car, there was an all-shrouding petticoat underneath. So for the first time in years we had a real motor show reveal. And the 300kW V8 M3 was worth every bit of the wait. BMW stole the show with, well, showmanship of the top order from a forgotten age, and with a cat to match all that halcyon expectation. So M3 was the unrivalled star of Geneva. We can't wait to get our hands on it!

And the worst....

Every motor show has its shockers and Geneva '07 was no exception. Here's our Worst Three this year...

3. That big white bakkie

Upstairs across the way from Skoda (sorry, Skoda!) was a giant white contraption that looked like a 300C gone wrong mated with a double cab bakkie and double crossed with a tugboat. Just because Rolls Royce uses wood in Corniche doesn't mean you should bolt a boardwalk onto your tribute to an appliance. So ugly it was we forgot its name, but that's where whatever-it's-called belongs — confined to can't remember...

2. Stola

Last year Swiss 'styling' house Stola produced one of our show faves in its big black coupe. What a difference a year can make! Stola's dreadful hearing aid beige disaster seemed to be a tribute to some or other mythical raptor — complete with knob-like beak emblem and feathery brow. If I were a giant eagle owl, I'd sue for defamation...

1. Rinspeed Rolls Royce Phantom

Our gong for the worst car on show has to go to Rinspeed for its pimped Rolls Royce Phantom. Yes, you heard right — a rodded five-bar Roller! Basically it goes like this: Rub down Goodwood's finest gloss and squirt over in matt black. Coat all glass with some layer found on the Addams family mansion's windows. Retrim the cabin in garish hide in a crude hue and give the wheels to your mate with the seven and replace with matt black twenty-something-inch multi spokers. And who knows what else. We pimped your Rolls, sir. Talk about answering questions nobody asked!

And of course, let's not forget Italy's great styling houses who've all been at it for so long that they have collectively used up every bit of imagination and all they can come up with are a bunch of cheesy answers to a few more questions nobody asked.

Surely Giugiaro, Pininfarina, Bertone and Zagato et al have the faintest of inventive spark left between them? Come on guys, your collective reputations promise so much more — you're letting the side down...