Geneva Motor Show 2011: Five eye-catching concept cars

They're the cars we won't get to drive, we'll never get to buy and which we're not even allowed to sit in. They're the concept cars on show at the Geneva Motor Show.

The best cars in Geneva right now aren't parked in the driveways of the rich, they're spinning around on podiums inside a collection of huge exhibition halls. Starting on 1 March, the Geneva Motor Show offers two whole weeks of cars, cars and... well, not as many hot girls as we'd hoped.

The highlight of the motor show calender always delivers some sublime concept cars that make us stop whatever it is we're doing to stare, ponder and dream.

Concept cars are more about showing what the manufacturers and their designers can do rather than what they will do, but occasionally the cars that end up on the road share a bit more than a passing resemblance with the cars on show in Geneva.

JOE has been browsing through the one-off productions from some of the world's best manufacturers and we've hand-picked five that really caught our eye and which we hope become available to the public one day.

Some are quirky, some are masculine, but all have one thing in common - they're ostentatious, and we love that.

William Nestor