The Geneva International Motor Show in Switzerland has been an annual institution for over 100 years.

As the 2019 version gets underway, high volume car makers are struggling with a switch to electrification, changing travel habits as well as a backdrop of global trade tension.

But at the upper end of the market however, brands are still producing radical concepts and powerful new cars, all of course with a hefty price tag.

CNBC takes a look at some of the fastest cars in history that are being unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show this year.