Sport Motor Tuning-2005 - the revival of "imperial" tradition

Since the 3rd of November 6, 2005, in showroom "Arena" was VI Moscow International Exhibition "Sport Motor Tuning-2005" organized by the Russian Automobile Federation, Motorcycle Federation of Russia, supported by the International Automobile Federation (FIA ) and the International Motorcycle Federation (FIM). The main exposition comprising representatives from various expensive and prestigious tuning and aerographic studio. There were a few "charged" with the current car registration number, which certainly can be seen on the streets of Moscow. Large area occupied vintage cars, representing great value for collectors and fans of old, but not for lovers of modern sport and tuning. Although, if you remember the exhibition "Inter Auto 2005", there is also one of the 4 pavilions was completely given over to vintage cars. Apparently, not so much in our country runs exhibitions on retro and classic cars of the past. The biggest stand was in AvtoVAZ, which showcased their copies of the sports and Tuned cars. To celebrate 35 years of motorsport AvtoVAZ has brought even VAZ-2101 Cross and LADA NIVA T3. The current prototype racing models also decorated booth AvtoVAZ »: LADA-WTCC for participation in the World Touring Car Championship, the sport versions LADA KALINA, rally car LADA 112 VK Super 2000. The exhibition of AvtoVAZ and sport-technical club Lada received certificates for their contribution to the development of Russian motor sport. Only interesting, but someone else can award such diploma among Russian automakers? Nevertheless, even though one tries. The exhibition was also attended by stands of several companies that sell auto parts for car tuning, several aerographic studios, the International Automobile Club with disabilities and, of course, the organizers of the Russian Automobile Federation and Motorcycle Federation of Russia. The word "several" appropriate here for the reason that the number of participants still was not very large. If you do not linger long at each booth, an exhibition could completely bypass the 15 minutes. Each day, the central area were an arena show of "Mototrial", and in a special place, a professional race car drivers, journalists and gamers compete in virtual races. Although the press release the organizers and was told that over the past three years, the exposition area has doubled in size (the exhibition was previously on the territory of the REC), we should note that its scope does not go into any comparison with the past in this year INTERAUTO 2005 " and the Motor Show 2005. The total area of ??the exhibition hall "Manege" - 20 000 sq. km. m, half of which falls on its ground segment, which hosted the exhibition, simply can not house the large number of participants. Even if you use both "floor" Manege, Expocentre with an area of ??60,000 square pavilions. pm and Crocus Expo - 86,800 square meters. m., will be of great interest to the Motor Show, not to mention the nearby area, which is in the Arena-existent. And according to this, the organizers of the rant about trying to revive the ancient tradition that it was in the Arena for almost 100 years ago (in 1908) held the first Russian car showroom, in the harsh reality sound too ambitious. Nevertheless, the growing popularity of the exhibition, and if last year it was visited by about 20,000 people, this year their number has increased by about 5000. Let's hope that as the popularity of the Sport Motor Tuning ", the organizers will look for more appropriate and more extensive exhibition area.