Looks like no VAG cars except Bentley and SEAT this year. No BMW either...whats the point in having a motor show which is supposed to be a world wide event like Geneva/Paris but hardley anyone turns up.

If I wanted to go and have a look round normal cars like Vauxhall I would pop down the road, not pay the fee to get into the motor show...

Skoda have the new Superb to show off etc but not showing up...poooooo

According to Skoda, they don't have enough dealer support in and around the Capital to warrant attending the show! Had it been held at the NEC, they would attend they reckon.

Bring back the NEC and Earls Court Shows of the 80's and 90's!!!

According to Skoda, they don't have enough dealer support in and around the Capital to warrant attending the show! Had it been held at the NEC, they would attend they reckon.

Bring back the NEC and Earls Court Shows of the 80's and 90's!!!

HERE HERE, NEC shows in the eighties were brill, when a show was a show, with cars , trucks and all the other stuff , it was a full day out

Yep, tis a shame. Fancied having a gander at the new Superb. Might still go though...

Steve

I went to the NEC show in 1986, and saw D880FYE, the red Skoda 130L Sport from all of the press reports on the Skoda stand.

It was a brilliant day out, the place was packed to the rafters and just about every car manufacturer you could name was attending.

Nowadays, I'd rather go to a 'local' motor show with maybe 15 or 20 local dealers turning up, than spend £100 odd going to London and back, paying the entry fees just to see basically the same amount of manufacturers! Who gives a toss about side-shows just to help woo the crowds, I personally dont get any satisfaction from seeing some bloke called Ross or whatever it is parallel park a mini cooper with his handbrake etc.

Funny thing is, that red 130L Sport ended up living just down the road from me.Long gone now though.:(

Think my first NEC motorshow was 88. Still remeber sitting in a Ford RS200. I was 6 at the time.

I blagged some free tickets to go but gave them away. I worked out what it would cost for the train or diesel & parking and decided not to bother. I went to Geneva a couple of years back and paid £20 (+taxes etc) for the flights (£66 all in for 2 of us), a Travelodge for 2 nights at £30pn and £8 into the show. It was enormous and took the whole day, and we were knackered by the end. I'd like to do Paris or Monaco next. Last time I went to a British motor show it was at the NEC. They'd combined it with the Ideal Home Exhibition and it was on a school holiday, so it was full of irritating kids (they buy lots of cars !) and disinterested housy types who'd strolled in from next door. You couldn't get anywhere near the cars and I spent most of the day crushed in a slow moving throng, not sure where I was being carried. I think it was this kind of experience which led British petrolheads to abandon car shows. They may have made a fast buck for a year or two with the huge crowds, but then people started not going, followed by exhibitors not bothering and it left us with the half-hearted farce we have now.