NEW YORK MOTOR SHOW: cancelled
Previously postponed Big Apple auto show joins Geneva, Beijing, Detroit and Paris cancellationsThe New York motor show is the latest international auto exhibition to be cancelled this year due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic.
Originally postponed from April to August, the 2020 NYIAS will now not go ahead because the Jacob K Javits Convention Centre is being used a makeshift hospital.
The news follows cancellations of major motor shows in Beijing, Geneva, Detroit, and Pari.
This year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed has also been postponed from June and although a new date is yet to be confirmed, event organisers say it’ll be most likely go ahead in the northern hemisphere’s late summer or early autumn.
In January, organisers of the Frankfurt motor show said Europe’s biggest motor show will be held in another major German city from 2021 due to shrinking crowds.
While some argue the traditional motor show is dead and will be replaced by online press conferences and live-streamed unveilings, some major event organisers like those of the New York motor show are promising to return in 2021.
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