The London Motor Show opens
5 May 2016 
His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent has opened the first London Motor Show to be held at Battersea Park.
The event, the first UK motor show since 2009, sees a number of manufacturers showing their vehicles, from family hatchbacks to expensive supercars. Also n display are some historic vehicles including Sir Malcolm Campbell’s Blue Bird, which was a multiple Land Speed Record holder and the first car to travel over 150mph.<
The event runs from Friday May 6th until Sunday May 8th and is already booked to run for the next three years. The event will allow visitors to get up close with brand new cars from MG and McLaren as well as a preview of the new TVR, due to be launched in 2017.<
Speaking to Aftermarket, Show President and former Top Gear and Fifth Gear presenter Tiff Needell commented: “it’s what London, and Britain, needs, we lost the big shows as they were getting to expensive for manufacturers and there’s only that many shows you can have globally a year on those budgets. I think this however with its layout of a couple of halls and vehicles on stands it better. Shows like Frankfurt can be quite intimidating with halls of Audis and BMWs, they go over the top and the public are fenced off or dare not get close to the car. I think here it’s lovely, you can get close, there’s a chance of driving them, this is how shows should be and we are getting back to the roots, something not intimidating to the family who want to come and look.”<
His Royal Highness Price Michael of Kent commented when cutting the ribbon to officially launch the show: “ I’m very pleased to be opening the event today. We haven’t had one in the UK for some time. Road safety and design and technology will be very strongly represented and we hope that the show will be a help for young people to, in the future, choose a vocation in the automobile engineering world.”<