Autosport International 2016 - PH Liveblog

The temptation to buy cars both real and otherwise is hard to resist!

Welcome to the PH Autosport International liveblog! Regular visitors to the show will know it's a feast for the petrolhead with the very best from the world of motorsport at the NEC. There are cars to see, cool stuff to buy and the Live Action Arena to watch some spectacular driving at today.

Team PH will be there all weekend, reporting back on the best bits of the show. Please do come and say hello if you're at ASI, you'll spot the Pie & Piston in Hall 19. As always, we'll be on social media too, so keep a look out on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for the latest from the boys on the ground.

Archived updates from the blog can be found here. For the latest update see below!

Sunday, The Pie & Piston, 1030h The Coys auction was one of the attractions at the Autosport show I particularly wanted to see. Hopefully you will have seen from the preview story the incredible array of vehicles going up for sale, from a Maserati Bi-turbo BTCC car to a Lamborghini tractor. Peering in from behind the barrier I saw the Russell Brookes Chevette sell for £72,000 (which doesn't seem ridiculous in fact) and the RHD Diablo SV fail to sell despite a high bid of £150,000. The current craze for Porsches showed little sign of abating at Autosport either, with a 964 Turbo making £160,000.

Wants to go sideways. Now

At a more affordable price point, I spent a long time around the model car stands too, grateful to some extent that I haven't been paid for January yet. There was a gorgeous Alpina B7 that could have taken pride of place by my television. Next month perhaps...

Other highlights? The Ford GT racer looks even better than it does in the pictures, there are two McLaren P1 GTRs here and the Williams F1 display is spectacular - it's drawing more people than the new cars!

A quick mention for the Live Action Arena too. We went to the Live Action Arena show last night and it was great. Yes, it's another £11 on top of the show ticket, but the amount of, er, action you see in that hour is easily worth it. Petter Solberg is worth the admission price alone. Then there are the bike stunts, the National Hot Rods, the Shedolition Derby, the Autograss cars, the McLaren 650S GT3... Go and see it!

Matt