Moscow International Motor Show: photos and reviews

The Moscow International Auto Show 2016 is the largest event in Russia dedicated to cars. This year at the exhibition, 5 times less cars and companies were represented than in previous years. Not surprisingly, attendance also fell.

Moscow International Motor Show

The event is one of the leading in the field of automotive industry, and is among the ten largest car showrooms in the world. The exhibition takes place every 2 years, so getting to the event is a great success. The main goal of the international salon in Moscow is the presentation of domestic novelties, as well as the demonstration of the latest foreign models, which are still being planned to be sold on the domestic market.

The event takes place on even-numbered years at the large Crocus Expo site since 2006, earlier it was held on the Krasnopresnenskaya embankment. The first automobile exhibition was held back in 1993, so this time there was the 13th Moscow International Motor Show. Photos from the event can be viewed below.

Lada

This year, the main attention was paid to the domestic company AvtoVAZ. Firstly, it happened because there were a lot of vacant seats in the salon, and the participants received a lot of attention this year. Secondly, the company introduced 19 models, 6 of which are concepts, and the main attention was paid to this brand.

Certainly the star of the exhibition was the model of "AvtoVAZ". So, the plant introduced the sports models Lada XRay and Lada Vesta. The main concept of the manufacturer was XCODE, which has long been rumored. Another novelty was the Lada 4x4, however, the manufacturers immediately stated that such a car would not be available for serial production.

Lada placed its models in the open part of the exhibition, giving, thus, the opportunity for everyone to conduct a test drive.

Hyundai

Another major company at the exhibition was Hyundai. However, unlike AvtoVAZ, she exhibited only one novelty - the Creta car, but in six different colors. The company is making the main interest this year on this model, and hopes that it will help increase the company's sales by 10-12%.

Mercedes

This is perhaps the only foreign company that was widely represented at the motor show. So, Mersedes rented a whole room, among other things, one of three at the show. The main premiere of the company was the GLC crossover. However, the exhibition also exhibited a few more models that domestic buyers have not seen yet: C-Class Cabriolet, SLC-Class, E43 and GLC-Class AMG.

Other producers

At the exhibition, Chinese manufacturers of machinery received wide coverage: Dongfeng Motor, Geely Motors, Ravon and FAW.

The company Geely Motors, perhaps, is the most famous of Chinese manufacturers in the domestic market. The Moscow International Auto Show gave her the opportunity to present the world's main novelty - the first crossover of Geely NL-3. Also for the first time the representative sedan Emgrand GT was shown, whose production is already established in Belarus.

Dongfeng Motors presented in the showroom seven of their innovations, the most interesting of which was the first representative sedan company A9. Also, the views of visitors attracted a powerful Warrior, which was immediately christened "the Chinese Hammer." Basically, all models of the company are recycled.

The company Ravon is known for releasing the discontinued models of Chevrolet. So, this time it showed the model Nexia R3, which is already sold in Russia, and the upcoming R4. It is noted that the novelty will cost less than 500 thousand rubles.

Officially, Volvo did not participate in the salon, however, models of this brand were exhibited by its official dealers, the firm Obukhov. Novelties here were not present, but actual models which can be got in interior are exposed.

Among the interesting models, one should also mention the latest joint development of KAMAZ and NAMI companies - minivan Shuttle with autopilot. Novelty interested both the press and visitors.

We also note that the Iranian producer - Iran Khodro is planning to return to Russia, which put up the models planned for sale.

Why were not other participants represented?

This year, very few companies exhibited their models at the Moscow International Auto Show. MIAS in this regard looked much poorer in the background of previous years, and the situation was not corrected even by a decrease in the price of renting space by 2 times compared to the last exhibition.

Officially, companies that did not participate, called several reasons. So, Kia Motors Rus and Cherry stated that participation in the salon presupposes too high costs, and little visitors are planned for this year's exhibition.

Most of the companies, namely Renault, Suzuki, Toyota, UAZ, Volksvagen, BMW, Ford, GM and Mitsubisi, said that they are not profitable to participate in the salon, and they will better direct funds to more priority projects and other areas of marketing.

The Moscow International Salon assumes that manufacturers will show products that are not yet sold on the Russian market, so if the company does not have a prime, the sense of participation is simply lost. For this reason, refused to attend the exhibition of Mazda and Subaru.

However, according to experts, this is not the case at all, and the companies did not participate in the car salon because of sanctions and market downturn. In fact, in recent years, some manufacturers have completely left the Russian market, and most noted a serious decline in sales.

Price list

Despite the fact that the exhibition has been working since August 24, in the first two days, access to it was only from the press. All interested persons could visit the Moscow International Motor Show from August 26 to September 4. At the same time, ticket prices were quite pleasant. So, on August 26-28 to get to the exhibition it was possible for 1000 rubles, in the following days the cost of the visit fell to 700 rubles. A ticket for children 7-12 years old could be purchased for 350 rubles, and up to 7 years the passage was free.

Reviews

Ambiguous opinions evoked the Moscow International Motor Show. Reviews about him were very different.

Among the advantages can be called a small number of visitors, so that you can safely see all the interesting models. Moreover, everyone was impressed by the exhibition of retro cars from the represented manufacturers and not only. Visitors were pleased with the contests and souvenirs that some companies gave.

Of the shortcomings, visitors note the inability to sit in cars. So, only Mercedes opened all their models, other manufacturers allowed to sit at best in only 1-2 cars.