British Motor Show Part 2

On Friday, we ventured to the British International Motor Show., which runs at Excel in London's Docklands with the tickets we brought from Ebay. We already prepared to buy tickets at the box office if those tickets were fake. Fortunately, the tickets were alright.

I had been to a motor show in Beijing years ago and I didn't remember much of it apart from crowds of people and glamorous models posing beside cars. At the ExCel, I did not see any models and all the ladies beside the cars were ready to provide you with information of the cars in order to sell them. And you could also check out most of the cars on display by yourself, opening the doors, having a look of the boot, even taking a seat in the driver's seat to feel it, that is something you can never expect in Chinese motor show.

One of the highlights was the Honda motor show which was fantastic. A variety of maneuvers done a group of pro was absolutely stunning. Honda even showed their newly developed robot who could speak and dance.

As a review of the motor show says: In the end there are only two types of vehicle. There's the sort where you sit in the driver's seat and your mate takes a photograph of you (a Bentley or a Hummer) and the sort where sensible chaps check fuel consumption, leg room in the back and the capacity of the boot. (call it a Vauxhall), we took pictures of most of the cool cars we could get our hands on.

I can feel the difference of standard of living between China and the UK. While the motor show in the UK is something most people come to and help them decide which car they are going buy, it is still like a showroom of the most advance cars to Chinese people who will never afford them.

For more pictures of the show, go to Photo Album on right hand side column, click British Motor Show 2008.