Looie

First time I'd been to the ExCel place - it's huge!

Took a few piccys, but please forgive the quality - the lights reflecting off all those highly polished cars made it a bit difficult to get many good ones, but these are the best of what I took........

Saw some stuff I had never seen before but security was (rightly) stopping people climbing in and out of the supercars......

Video of one hall (There were two of them)!


Schumacher’s Ferrari


Plato’s Seat


A Gray Thing – Not sure what it was!


An Orange Thing – Not Sure What This was Either!


Nice Merc


McLaren F1 – Couldn’t Miss This One!


Prototype Sports Car from Mazda


Jenson Buttons F1 Car


Jensons Name tag


Gronholm’s Ford


A Ferrari


BMW F1 Car


BMW Race Car


Barabas!!


Aston DB7


Aston DB9


World Speed Record Attempt Car


That's It - others I took turned out too naff...

bigmick

Nice pic's mate........hope you had a good time...........question,can you just turn up or do you need tickets.................

Looie

Hi Mick,

You can get tickets on the door - just watch for the two different entrances - one for ticket holders, the other for non ticket holders.

Both entrances seem to be fairly busy today, so there must be plenty of people turning up without tickets and buying them on the day.

T123VOR

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I went yesterday- just turn up!

If you are driving park in car park 1- ignore the signs telling you to fill up car park 4 first (it's miles from the place!)

Saw the above beauties and some lovely ladies helping me with some car facts


By the way the orange car above is a Caparo T1- 'kin fast- 2.5 secs 0-60 if i recall!! Fireblade territory

And the silver one is an Invicta S1- quite fast- 'kin wide!



Trevor

Mrs spec'c'57

this is the new invicta.... unsure of the model altho its there only car fr a long while... my dad had a 1928 invicta told me all about the new one....

Adidas

I was there today as well, I've got to say I was pretty unimpressed with the turn out, I.e: No 'Official' Audi, VW, Scoobs, Mitsubushi, Porsche stands to name but a few. Poor effort with the Trade stands.

I won't even get started with the 1000's of kids and long queues

I spent just under two hours walking around before I left. Hopefully come the 2008 show some more of the car builders may go along

bigmick

cheers gents on entrance

orchid35

I thought it was great nice friendly atmosphere and great cars.

good picks Looie

alloy

Caparo T1, an f1 car for the road with 0-60 in 2.5secs and a power to weight ratio of 1000bhp per tonne

rossi_p

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Tis an Aston Vanquish... nice

Some nice piccies there.

I might take a trip down after work today.

How busy was it?

Thanks
R

Looie

TBH - Not as busy as I thought it would be, but then I got in as it opened at 09.30 and left mid afternoon.

At lunchtime(ish) I did notice that there were quite afew families coming in, so it's all a bit of luck I suppose........

spally

iTrader: (1)

i'm off there tomorrow...with free tickets

scoobynut555

I'm going tomorrow as well, free tickets for me too finally worth working for LLoyds

Her at the back

so good they are giving tickets away?

Looie

That's how I went - with Lloyds TSB - 2 complimentary tickets sent to me as I got an insurance quote from them for my WRX (didn't buy from them, but they still sent me two tickets)!!

Mine were not valid for the weekend though - only Mon-Fri this week, but at least it meant I went when it wasn't rammed - which is how I see this weekend being!

Mark_B4

Went to the motor show today... Had free tickets

It was OK, some big names missing, but still some nice cars on display.

Glad I didn't have to pay...

Looie

Nothing beats a freebie.............

T123VOR

iTrader: (2)

I was on a freeby too

spally

iTrader: (1)

just got back. have to say was very un impressed!!!!!! as has been said too many "top" names missing and not really a great deal to do apart from look at the cars. I know it's the motor show but would have though they would put on some shows/exhibitions etc.

oh am glad i didnt have to pay to get in!!

leelee728

I went on freebies too but I have to admit I don't think I would have been thrilled if I had paid.

baz69birds

Sorry thats all
BBS

Looie

Just seen this announcement:

"Visitors flock to London motor show - Visitor attendance at the British International Motor Show at the Excel Centre in London’s Docklands was 23 per cent up on the previous event – held at Birmingham’s NEC in 2004. According to International Motor Industry Events, which organised the show on behalf of the SMMT, numbers were set to have hit 420,000 by the time the exhibition closed on 30 July. By close of play on Friday 28 July attendance had already reached 345,000. SMT chief executive Christopher Macgowan said the decision to move the show to London had been vindicated and predicted building on the success at the same venue in 2008".


What they don't say was how many visitors actually PAID to go in and see it !!!

rb5 286

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Me n Deb's went on Saturday. We was there for about 4.5hrs, had a good walk around and checked out a lot of cars, chatted to a few sales reps and took LOTS of pics: http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...orshow%202006/

I personally thought it was a good show inside and outside, plenty going on and the manufacturers showing off their products - some of the stands were amazing (Mazda MX-5 with rain falling down to show off the speed of the convertible) the sound and screens.

The Mini Space invaders game and the 4x4 test track were impressive also.

I thought it was £30 well spent for half a day, we were knackered after all the walking around and as we were coming out there were hoards just coming in.