TOKYO MOTOR SHOW
Tokyo Motor Show Guide including - location,
pictures, girls and history. Tokyo Motor Show 2007.
Tokyo Motor Show (東京モーターショー) is a biennial auto show held
in October-November at the Makuhari Messe,
Chiba City, Japan for cars,
motorcycles and commercial vehicles. Hosted by the Japan Automobile
Manufacturers Association (JAMA), it is a recognized international show by
the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles, and
normally sees more concept cars than actual production car introductions
which is the reason why the auto press see the show as one of the
motor show's big five (along with Detroit, Geneva, Frankfurt and Paris).
Tokyo Motor Show 2007
October 27th (Saturday) to November 11th (Sunday) 2007.
Location: Makuhari Messe,
Chiba, Tokyo.
The Tokyo Motor Show is almost as famous for the girls
standing next to the cars as it is for the cars on display. We have hundreds
of photos of Tokyo Motor Show
Girls.
Tokyo Motor Show History
The show, then called All Japan Motor Show was first held
in an outdoor venue called Hibiya Park, the show was considered a success
with 547,000 visitors over ten days and 254 exhibitors displaying 267
vehicles, but of the amount of vehicles only 17 of them were passenger cars
as the show was dominated by commercial vehicles. In 1958, due to
construction of a subway and underground parking lot near Hibiya Park, the
show was shifted to the Korakuen Bicycle Racing Track. The show, as the
previous year was marred by heavy rain, in 1959 the event moved indoor to
its newly opened Harumi Showplace venue which was three times the size of
its previous venue.
Onward from 1973, as the organisers decided not to host a show for the
following year due to the international energy crisis, the show became a
biennial event after the organisers decided that the event should be held
every two years. The show relocated to its current venue, the Makuhari Messe
in 1989 and due to high public demand for vehicles in everyday use and the
fact concept cars dominate the show, the show returned to being an annual
event from 2001 to 2005 with a show for passenger cars and motorcycle and
another for commercial vehicles for the following year. However from 2007
onwards the event will (once again) return to a biennial schedule which
combines both passenger and commercial vehicles, including motorcycles and
auto parts.
Tokyo Motor Show Links
Official
Tokyo Motor
Show site.
(Article
based on
Wikipedia article and used under the
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