The legendary Geneva Motor Present involves an finish – Information

Solely the sister occasion might be held in Doha, Qatar, which first came about in 2023. The following version might be in November 2025.

The Geneva Motor Present was first held in 1905 and was thought-about the premier European motoring occasion. In its day, as much as 120 exhibitors and roughly 600,000 guests participated within the occasion. This 12 months, the variety of exhibitors fell to 23 and the variety of guests to 168,000.

Motor present president Alexandre de Senarclens blamed the cancellation of the occasion on a scarcity of curiosity from producers. In accordance with him, the ultimate blow for the approaching 12 months was the rising competitors from related occasions, such because the Paris and Munich motor exhibits. In accordance with the organizer, additional investments in organizing the exhibition had been too huge a danger.

The Geneva Motor Present was suspended through the covid-19 pandemic, and this 12 months the occasion was held for the primary time since 2019. Nonetheless, this 12 months’s version was considerably smaller and several other massive corporations, comparable to Stellantis and Volkswagen, didn’t. take part.

In accordance with Autocar, this 12 months’s occasion lacked main producers because of disputes between the organizers and a few corporations because of monetary losses incurred by the late cancellation of the 2020 occasion.