This week I’ve been kicking the tires of the finest, most exclusive, and most exotic cars at the Geneva Motor Show, and I’ve spotted two emerging trends: cheap oil is bringing huge gas guzzlers back into fashion, and Google’s Android Auto is falling behind Apple’s CarPlay. Android Auto isn’t a complete absentee from the show, of course, but the headline-grabbing cars, the cream of Geneva’s crop, have all gravitated toward Apple’s solution and ignored Google’s alternative.
Apple CarPlay equipped Ferrari

Lamborghini’s big unveiling at the Geneva Motor Show was the Centenario, a car so exclusive that all 40 units of its production run had already been sold ? at a price of ?1.75 million each ? before company CEO Stephan Winkelmann even took the stage. It was a show of the brand’s power and attraction, and it was notable to the tech world for its prominent inclusion of Apple CarPlay in among high-performance specs like 770hp and a 2.8-second 0 to 60 time. Contrast that with the Maserati Levante, which supports Android Auto alongside CarPlay, but makes no big noise about either one. The same is true of the Hyundai Ioniq, the updated Fiat 500S, and the Audi Q2: Android Auto is typically a second option quietly thrown in after CarPlay. Google’s software is an afterthought. Apple’s software is a major highlight on the car about to grace the cover of the next Forza racing game. As if the 770hp Centenario wasn...