Never change a winning formula. More apt than ever, with regard to fair Cars and motorcycles of Padua, who continues to play in the past and present: only exhibitors this year increased by 30%, car sales came to 4,000, 90,000 square meters of exhibition space. A success even before the opening, then, in an Italian scene where the emphasis turning the stands slowly he was deteriorating. Or at least so she thought. “There are many people who continue to come from all over Europe to buy cars,” says the owner of the salon Mario Carlo Baccaglini the first day. In fact, the feeling among fans, retailers, clubs, exhibitors, is that the cars still have a soul, for which it is essential to come to her to know them, find them, touch them, and then decide whether to take them home or no. Treasure hunters, visitors to the show, so the consultation of websites and apps, and the approach to the screen is dismissed out of hand, “That’s well and good but for the other cars, those of today, we already know where basically just look and fulfill its function, “says Francis, 40, arrived from Calabria in the morning to hunt for opportunity. Ahead of her, a Dino 1977, with 71,000 kilometers behind, sleek as she came out from the factory at the time.
“Often here you come up with the one-way ticket – continues Baccaglini – to be able to take home the dream of a lifetime. Many car this year, came from several countries. The visitor target the age of 35. They are motorists who sit on the car to feel the thrill, drawn from the past, originality, design, although that is now taken on contemporary models are versions of yesterday that retain their uniqueness “.
Here are the pavilions are filled. From the historic Beetle, the Mini offered in every creative sauce, the Giulia TI Super, the SS, the Sprint GTA, the Defender, ready to leave with her last year of production. The crowd is such that it seems to be in the golden years of the automotive world, where the digitization and connectivity there were still, he turned with the road map and not sure what to expect. Now that in a sense the near future is written – think of the autonomous driving, for example – many are willing to stop here to take what has been in history, where car did well rhymes with emotion.
“Last year, the evaluation of a Testarossa came from 50,000 euro to reach 150,000 after two days,” he confesses Baccaglini. For Motorists pure and raw, in fact, as to what it once was, often confused when aboard cars technology does not know where to put your hands, the past can be worth as gold. They understood well the 18 official marks, flocked to the fair bringing with them their history to date, by opening the hoods of cars, and explaining to the curious evolution, how and when … if it is already too well known. “They have not only the brand image – still the boss – but for the history of the product: a brand lovers often ask themselves the reasons for a choice, a comparison. Here you can understand. In addition to coming to the discovery of many national premieres in the name of tradition. “
From Porsche to Peugeot to Jaguar, the houses were granted under the attention and the confidence of the public: they have put at the center the driver, showing the progress and the design of the car 2.0. for a journey through time in the round, the excitement behind the wheel yesterday, liberty today. Because maybe, for those accustomed to a world of certainty that is slowly evolving, it will be this the real novelty to be enjoyed over the years: a new freedom on board, the ability to think only of themselves and the street. Everything else takes care of you, with the support of the technology, which is used for example to change course immediately, because of code, or call assistance in case of failure or even the authorities for an accident: it is she that detects, reports, call .
will be less and less time to waste, then, for those who want to enjoy the trip. And the spirit to keep your hands on the steering wheel without much thought will be, and how, even in this era: similarities with the past, therefore, for the curious salon, discovering advantages. Many were convinced to accept the future, many not. The amateur who keeps in a box built car yesterday and in the daily is increasingly distracted by the costs can only reflect the changing world of the car. Motor racing, basically is this: indecision, the old, the new, the deal. For those who thought that the passion for the car was finished, it is only changed over the years, evolved, survived, still unable to go back to being what it once was.
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