the 2016 London Motor Show has been mooted a great success, with brands already booking for 2017.

• Visitor numbers exceed expectations
• Exhibitors already booking for 2017
• Next year’s show dates released

The new London Motor Show, staged at the Evolution Centre in Battersea Park, is being hailed as hugely successful by both visitors and exhibitors. Visitors over the sunny May weekend exceeded expectations with tickets sold out on both the Saturday and the Sunday with over 6,000 visitors on the Friday.

A variety of exhibitors have already booked stand spaces, some with a request for larger areas, for the 2017 event which will be staged again at Battersea Park from 4^th to 7^th May. The innovation of providing road test for selected cars on show was very successful with close on 100 tests arranged. Key models were also sold during the show including Tesla Model S models and MG reporting many serious potential orders for their SUV model which was launched at the show.

Intriguingly the Mitsuoka Brooklands model, the latest Japanese sports car which made its debut in Europe at the London Show, was purchased by a Belgian customer who travelled to the show on the last day of the event. Many other exhibitors reported considerable and genuine interest and valuable new sales prospects identified.

“We are absolutely delighted with the number of visitors and their reaction to the new London Motor Show”, said Show Chairman Alec Mumford. “Not only were exhibitors selling cars and securing valuable customer prospects, but visitors were very enthusiastic about bringing the Motor Show back to London and were looking forward to next year’s event. Encouragingly our exhibitors were very happy with the level and quality of visitors and many have already expressed interest in taking space next year, many asking for more space”.

The outside displays were very popular with the Stop the Crash display, which demonstrated the effectiveness of Automated Emergency Braking (AEB), and over the course of the show many visitors took part in the practical automatic braking demonstration including the Show Patron, HRH Prince Michael of Kent.