The Essen Motor Show not only traditionally congregates the experts in vehicle tuning but you can also find here a lot of interested experts and customers who recognise and appreciate our classic workmanship. For Brabus, the Classic & Prestige Salon is therefore an important international forum for the presentation of the best classic Mercedes sports cars in the world - we will be happy to come once again!

As already in the past, we are very satisfied with the Essen Motor Show 2018 - our booth was once again very well-visited this year too. Thanks to the modernisation, the halls look considerably brighter and neater: a high-quality environment for a high-quality event. For some years, we have established that the public is becoming increasingly diverse. In the meantime, we are encountering a large proportion of our various target groups here. At the Essen Motor Show, we can arouse the enthusiasm of our clientele and encounter the opinion makers of tomorrow. As one of the few tyre manufacturers at the EMS, we see the possibility of directly exchanging ideas with people enthusiastic about motorsports and tuning and are now already looking forward to next year.

After a great season of events at our own venue, the Essen Motor Show is, for us, an outstanding stage in order to present our event highlights for the coming year to the interested public outside the racetrack too. Precisely at this year's edition, the response on the booth was overwhelming. That may be due not only to our content-related focusing on the subject of Formula 1 in 2019 and the associated unique selling point but also to the high number of spectators beyond the weekend days as well. In addition to the fascination of the Formula 1 racing cars as popular photo motifs, it was very obvious that the fans particularly appreciate entertaining elements such as the F1 reaction wall or the animating bobblehead doppelgängers of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Hülkenberg. The bottom line is that the Essen Motor Show 2018 was once again a complete success.

Not only for us but also for the fans, the partners and the customers of our unique racetrack, the Nürburgring booth presence at the Essen Motor Show has been a permanent fixture for years. With the Porsche 919 Hybrid, we had the pleasure of presenting an absolutely special vehicle here. With this racing car, the racing driver Timo Bernhard was able to set a new record on the North Loop and to go down in the history books as a result of this. An exceptional moment which was thus tangible for everybody at the Essen Motor Show too.

For over 20 years, Skoda Auto Deutschland has regularly been actively involved in the Essen Motor Show. Our appearance this year concentrated on the German premiere of the new Skoda Kodiaq RS - the first Czech SUV with the sporty genes of the legendary RS models. In addition, we showed the smaller SUV Skoda Karoq in the new Scout and Sportline equipment lines as well as other current models. The presentation of our rally activities already has a tradition too - in 2018, represented by the Skoda Fabia R5 with which we took part in this year's FIA European Rally Championship. The right public for the fascinating mixture consisting of sports, shows and automobiles is here in Essen.

For us, the Essen Motor Show is a significant fair which, for us, belongs to the same line-up as SEMA in Las Vegas and the Tokyo Auto Salon. For this reason, we had two international highlights for all the visitors this year: the world premiere of the Proxes TR1 and Ken Block's visit to our booth. The great popularity at the fair shows us that we were absolutely right with this decision.

The Essen Motor Show was once again a complete success for us this year too! We were able to present not only to trade visitors but also to tuning fans our new designs such as the Speedline Corse SC1 Motorismo bike with a racing character or the Ronal R50 Aero in gold - our wheel rim on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Ronal Group next year. The taxi rides with the Ronal 'Zetti' BMW Z4 GT3 in the Motorsports Arena which were prizes in raffles on the booth also went down extremely well with the visitors. Time and time again, the Essen Motor Show is, for us, a fantastic opportunity to introduce our company and our products to a wide public.