Will we ever see an NEC motor show again ?

[j3gme]

Considering here in the UK we build high end cars, why has our motor show gone to ruin? There was a bit of an effort from Earls Court but nothing like what we see abroad, or what we use to see in the eighties and nineties.......its a shame.

[Cupramax]

Goodwood is pretty much a motorshow now, but yes i lament the days of my youth spent wandering around the NEC with bags full of brochures

[andy-xr]

Mainstream cars arent really that interesting and the dream cars are made in small numbers that 99.99% of people will never be able to own and often want to put sticky hands on.

I think it's one of those that's best put out to pasture, I've been to a few and nothing really wowed me

[briang9]

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/89680/britis...

[Cupramax]

Autoexpress said:

Battersea Park has been earmarked as the venue and the show is scheduled to take place in May 2016. Green technology will be the emphasis with a major focus on electric and hybrid vehicles.

And they wonder why interest died out...

[McWigglebum4th]

Last time i went to a motorshow it was walking around a bunch of dealership rooms with the cold outside bit when you went from audi to BMW

[marshalla]

Motorshows used to be like boat shows - somewhere that the manufacturers would display wares to those who aspired to own one, one day. Cars are now commodities, so there's no need. It would be like having a cornflakes show.

[Milemuncher207]

Has the "British" Motor Show ever been held outside London or Birmingham?

[Jonwm]

Cupramax said:

i lament the days of my youth spent wandering around the NEC with bags full of brochures

This haha used to love it

[Claudia Skies]

j3gme said:

Considering here in the UK we build high end cars, why has our motor show gone to ruin?.......its a shame.

It's all a question of "we" and "our". Or not, as the case may be.

Unfortunately the motor industry in UK is, for the most part, not British owned.

[CB2152]

I remember coming home with quite a nice model of a Ford GT a few years ago, I must have been about 12/13 years old. It was one of the "free gifts" you were given for subscribing to Autocar magazine. I begged my dad to subscribe, partly because the model looked excellent, and partly because, well, I wanted to read Autocar.

I still have the model on a shelf in my bedroom 10 years on

It was great fun picking up all the brochures and looking at all the cars but now I'm older, looking at normal everyday cars just doesn't hold the same appeal. It'd have to be a performance motor show, or have a good number of interesting cars, to keep me interested now. This years Geneva show actually looked really good.

[McWigglebum4th]

marshalla said:

Motorshows used to be like boat shows - somewhere that the manufacturers would display wares to those who aspired to own one, one day. Cars are now commodities, so there's no need. It would be like having a cornflakes show.

At least cornflakes come in different coloured boxes

[bazza white]

I used to go to brum but its like paying to spend a full day in a dealership showroom. If they could bring some of the engineering and design side to the show to make it more interesting.


Ami in Germany is pretty cool, they have a tool trade show in one of the halls and a car electronics show in another hall.