THE mood at this week's Geneva motor show, if not exactly upbeat, was in contrast to the fear that gripped the event last year.

笼罩于本周的日内瓦车展上的氛围，纵非完全积极乐观，也与去年人们所表现出来的担忧心理形成了鲜明对比。

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"There's clearly room for another product and another concept between the A3 and A1, " Audi CEO Rupert Stadler told journalists on the sidelines of the 2010 Geneva Motor Show.

在2010年日内瓦车展上，奥迪公司CEO鲁波特.施泰德曾对记者表示：“很明显，A1和A3之间是有空间用于另一款产品、另一个概念的。”

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The Geneva Motor Show begins. Climate-change negotiators from some 200 countries meet in Bangkok.

日内瓦车展开幕。来自200多个国家的气象变化谈判代表在泰国曼谷会谈。

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Meanwhile, Spyker and Youngman have signed a joint-venture agreement to develop Spyker's P2P, the Peking-to-Paris super-sport-utility vehicle first seen at the 2006 Geneva show.

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The automaker will use the stand- or parts of it- at 10 other auto shows around the world this year, including the Shanghai Motor Show in China in April and Geneva show in March.

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McLaren is set to officially unveil its 903-horsepower P1 hybrid supercar at the Geneva show, and Volkswagen will show off its new XL1 plug-in hybrid, which gets a whopping 261 miles to the gallon.

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