Paris Motor Show Mondial de l'Automobile | |
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Genre | Auto show |
Date(s) | October |
Frequency | Biennial: Even years |
Location(s) | Paris |
Country | France |
Inaugurated | 1898 |
Founder | Albert de Dion |
Most recent | 2022 |
Next event | 2024 |
Organised by | AMC Promotion |
Website | www |
The Paris Motor Show (French : Mondial de l'Automobile) is a biennial auto show in Paris. Held during October, it is one of the most important auto shows, often with many new production automobile and concept car debuts. The show presently takes place in Paris expo Porte de Versailles. [1] The Mondial is scheduled by the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles , which considers it a major international auto show.
In 2016, the Paris Motor Show welcomed 1,253,513 visitors, making it the most visited auto show in the world, ahead of Tokyo and Frankfurt.
The key figures of the show are: 125,000 m2 (1,350,000 sq ft) of exhibition, 8 pavilions, 260 brands from 18 countries, 65 world premieres, more than 10 000 test drives for electric and hybrid cars, more than 10 000 journalists from 103 countries. [2] Until 1986, it was called the Salon de l'Automobile; it took the name Mondial de l'Automobile in 1988 and Mondial Paris Motor Show in 2018.
The show was held annually until 1976; since which time, it has been held biennially.
The show was the first motor show in the world, started in 1898 by industry pioneer, Jules-Albert de Dion. After 1910, it was held at the Grand Palais in the Champs-Élysées. During the First World War motor shows were suspended, meaning that the show of October 1919 was only the 15th "Salon". [3]
There was again no Paris Motor Show in 1925, the venue having been booked instead for an Exhibition of Decorative Arts. [4] In October 1926, the Motor Show returned, this being the 26th Paris Salon de l'Automobile. [4] The outbreak of war again intervened in 1939 when the 33rd Salon de l'Automobile was cancelled at short notice. [5]
Normality of a sorts returned some six years later and the 33rd "Salon" finally opened in October 1946. In January 1977, it was announced that no Paris Motor Show would take place that year, because of the "current economic situation": at the same time the organisers confirmed that a 1978 Auto Salon for Paris was planned. [6]
The 65th Salon de Paris duly opened on 15 October 1978 in the modern buildings of the Parc des Expositions, on the south western edge of central Paris at the Porte de Versailles, where the show had been held since 1962. [7]
There was no "Salon de l'Automobile" in 1920
There was no "Salon de l'Automobile" in 1925 due to the venue having been allocated to an Exhibition of Decorative Arts
There was no "Salon de l'Automobile" in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic [17]
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The Paris Motor Show – or Mondial de l'Automobile – is one of the most important shows in the automotive calendar. It takes place only on even-numbered years, with the Frankfurt Motor Show, held at the Frankfurt Messe, taking over on odd-numbered years.