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The World Supercar Show at the BFGoodrich Asian Motorsports Festival
We’ve all dreamed of zipping around in a Ferrari. Can anyone really say they wouldn’t desire a Lamborghini, Porsche or Maserati?
The dream and desire to merely ride around, much less own one of these
incredible exotic cars never really wanes with time, to the die-hard car
enthusiast perhaps it only gets stronger. We take some solace in attending the
odd ‘motorshow’ that swings by, to marvel at these amazing machines.
The concept of a ‘motorshow’ has been around for decades. It was born during a time when the world was a much smaller place in terms of information technology. In the 60’s when motorshows began their rise to popularity, there was no internet, nor were there any notable motoring publications to speak of. Motorshows were a chance for the average Joe to view a lot of cars at one time under one roof and this worked well for 30 years or so.
By the turn of the new millennium, information technology had advanced to the point where anything and everything could be found on the vast internet super cyber highway. IT had evolved and advanced beyond anything imaginable in the past, but the concept of a motorshow has remained basically the same. Bright rooms, plush carpeting, shiny cars, executives in suits, pretty girls. Indeed the cars had evolved and changed over the past 30 years, but the motorshow concept remained the same. In short, motorshows these days are just a big, expensive, glorified parking lot, packed with cars that can be seen in 0.12 seconds by logging on to Google or any Internet search engine. The one thing that has remained constant throughout the history of motorshows is that the cars NEVER move. They just sit there, looking good, seen from afar...
Well not anymore.
On Sunday 12th December 2004, the BFGoodrich Asian Motorsports Festival will organize a motorshow unlike anything ever done in the past. For the first time, the World Supercar Show comes to Asia. Almost RM 100 million worth of Supercars from Ferrari, Porsche, Maserati, Lamborghini and Pagani will be at this event, dubbed Supercar Sunday. In addition, proud owners of these exotic machines will be present as well, to further ignite the festivities. The biggest difference from other motorshows is that these incredible exotic machines will be doing what there were created to do. These cars will be driven on the track. Just about everyone has seen a Ferrari 360 Modena in Challenge Stradale spec, but not many have heard the wail of its exhaust note, as it screams by at 200km/h. Fewer have even heard of a Pagani Zonda, much less seen one. On Supercar Sunday, not only will visitors get to see this incredible hand-built and highly exclusive 7.3-litre V12, 555bhp Supercar, they will hear, touch and smell it as well. The Porsche Carrera GT, 997 Carrera S, Lamborghini Murcielago, Diablo, Gallardo, Countach, Maserati Trofeo, 4200GT and from Ferrari, the legendary Enzo will be there along with the rest of the Italian Stallions for this exotic car maker.
“My dream is that the concept of the motorshow evolves into something like what we will have at Supercar Sunday” said Peter Seow, Group Executive Director of AMF Worldwide. “Our motto is ‘Someday all motorshows will be like this’ and we really hope they will, just remember we started it first!” he added.
Chris Wee
The World Supercar Show at the BFGoodrich Asian Motorsports Festival
We’ve all dreamed of zipping around in a Ferrari. Can anyone really say they wouldn’t desire a Lamborghini, Porsche or Maserati?
The dream and desire to merely ride around, much less own one of these
incredible exotic cars never really wanes with time, to the die-hard car
enthusiast perhaps it only gets stronger. We take some solace in attending the
odd ‘motorshow’ that swings by, to marvel at these amazing machines.
The concept of a ‘motorshow’ has been around for decades. It was born during a time when the world was a much smaller place in terms of information technology. In the 60’s when motorshows began their rise to popularity, there was no internet, nor were there any notable motoring publications to speak of. Motorshows were a chance for the average Joe to view a lot of cars at one time under one roof and this worked well for 30 years or so.
By the turn of the new millennium, information technology had advanced to the point where anything and everything could be found on the vast internet super cyber highway. IT had evolved and advanced beyond anything imaginable in the past, but the concept of a motorshow has remained basically the same. Bright rooms, plush carpeting, shiny cars, executives in suits, pretty girls. Indeed the cars had evolved and changed over the past 30 years, but the motorshow concept remained the same. In short, motorshows these days are just a big, expensive, glorified parking lot, packed with cars that can be seen in 0.12 seconds by logging on to Google or any Internet search engine. The one thing that has remained constant throughout the history of motorshows is that the cars NEVER move. They just sit there, looking good, seen from afar...
Well not anymore.
On Sunday 12th December 2004, the BFGoodrich Asian Motorsports Festival will organize a motorshow unlike anything ever done in the past. For the first time, the World Supercar Show comes to Asia. Almost RM 100 million worth of Supercars from Ferrari, Porsche, Maserati, Lamborghini and Pagani will be at this event, dubbed Supercar Sunday. In addition, proud owners of these exotic machines will be present as well, to further ignite the festivities. The biggest difference from other motorshows is that these incredible exotic machines will be doing what there were created to do. These cars will be driven on the track. Just about everyone has seen a Ferrari 360 Modena in Challenge Stradale spec, but not many have heard the wail of its exhaust note, as it screams by at 200km/h. Fewer have even heard of a Pagani Zonda, much less seen one. On Supercar Sunday, not only will visitors get to see this incredible hand-built and highly exclusive 7.3-litre V12, 555bhp Supercar, they will hear, touch and smell it as well. The Porsche Carrera GT, 997 Carrera S, Lamborghini Murcielago, Diablo, Gallardo, Countach, Maserati Trofeo, 4200GT and from Ferrari, the legendary Enzo will be there along with the rest of the Italian Stallions for this exotic car maker.
“My dream is that the concept of the motorshow evolves into something like what we will have at Supercar Sunday” said Peter Seow, Group Executive Director of AMF Worldwide. “Our motto is ‘Someday all motorshows will be like this’ and we really hope they will, just remember we started it first!” he added.
Chris Wee
