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The next Paris Motor Show, the Mondial de l'Auto, will take place in October 2024 in Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. There will be no show in 2023. The Paris Motor Show is the place to be for all car lovers. Trip to Paris. Business in Paris.
Paris Motor Show 2024, the next edition of the motor show, will take place in October 2024. The exact date is not yet known. There will be no Paris Motor Show in 2023.
The 2022 Paris Motor Show took place in October 2022 in Paris Expo Porte de Versailles exhibition venue.
The Paris Motor Show, also called in French Mondial de l'Auto, is one of the major car shows in the world. It takes place in October every two years (even years). The many visitors discover the new cars unveiled on this occasion.
The Mondial de l'Auto allows professionals and amateurs to discover the latest developments made by manufacturers. Vehicles are also available to visitors for a full-scale test.
Paris Motor Show 2022, also called in French Mondial de l'Auto, took place from October 17 to October 23 in Paris Expo Porte de Versailles exhibition venue.
During the Paris Automotive Week, the Mondial de l’Auto presented the new offer of car manufacturers, with a total immersion in the car of the 21st century: electrification, hybridization, hydrogen, hyperconnectivity. Chinese manufacturers were massively represented with electric cars.
The Mondial de l’Auto 2022 was the 89th edition of the show and a privileged meeting place to choose and buy a vehicle.
Renault revived its most successfull car ever, the 4L. The French manufacturer presented the Renault 4Ever Trophy, an electric SUV concept, that took its first crowd bath at the Paris Motor Show 2022.
The Peugeot 408 is a compromise between the sedan and the SUV. With this well designed vehicle, Peugeot hopes to seduce markets beyond Europe.
BYD caused a sensation with its Han electric sedan.
The Alpine AlpenGlow seemed to come straight from the future with its aerodynamic design, hydrogen engine and surprising headlight signature.
Paris Expo Porte de Versailles is the show venue.
Locate Paris Expo Porte de Versailles Exhibition Center on the map. Check detailed Paris Motor Show 2018 map.
Porte de Versailles is right at the Porte de Versailles exit of the Périphérique, the busy circular freeway round the city. There are parkings. The easiest way to get to the exhibition center is by taxi, tramway (T2 and T3 lines) or, best of all, metro. Metro: Porte de Versailles station on line 12.
There are good hotels near the Motor Show. Okko Hotel is located 700 m from Porte de Versailles Exhibition Center. It offers air-conditioned accommodation with free WiFi throughout. Rooms are equipped with a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. There are a Nespresso machine and an iPod dock in the rooms. They have a private bathroom. A buffet breakfast including some organic products is served daily, while snacks are available throughout the day. Appetizers are served in the evening. A bar is also available on site. Guests have access to a shared club lounge with computers, a library and local wines and beers. A welcome drink is offered. There is a fitness centre and sauna.
Consider too Mercure Vaugirard Porte De Versailles at walking distance of the Motor Show and Oceania, with an indoor pool and spa facilities with hammam.
The Motor Show is called Mondial de l'Auto in French. A biennial auto show, the Mondial de l'Automobile is the most visited motor show in the world, ahead of Tokio and Frankfurt, with 1.068.194 visitors in 2018.
The key figures of this spectacular show are: 125 000 m2 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.
Around 1894 twenty cars were in use in entire France.
In 1898, the French Automobile Club and industry pioneer, Albert de Dion, created Le Salon de l'automobile du cycle et des sports. The international motor show opened on the terrace of the Tuilleries Gardens. Before being admitted to this show the exhibitors had to prove their seriousness by driving their cars from Versailles to Paris. The French President, who opened this motor show, did not hesitate to expose his scepticism about the future of the automobile. He left the Tuilleries Gardens using a horse driven carriage.
In 1899, this motor show was recognized as the sole and the unique manifestation of its kind. It took place in the Tuileries Gardens. The automobile was looking for its future as no technique had succeded in imposing itself: neither the steam engine, nor the explosion engine, nor the electrical one. After 1910 it was held in Grand Palais near Champs-Elysees.
