The 33rd Bologna Motor Show 2008 took place from 5 to14 December 2008 in Bologna, Italy.

The Motor Show, which occupied 140,000 square metres of indoor exhibition area and 90,000 square metres outdoors, featured 320 exhibitors, 51 car brand stands and 107 premieres, of which eight were world and eleven European premieres. Sixteen companies exhibited on the outdoor areas.
The event was attended by around 970,000 visitors, more than 22,000 trade professionals and around 2,500 press correspondents.

Giada Michetti – Managing Director of Promotor International S.p.A., the organizer of Bologna Motor Show 2008 – expressed great satisfaction on the last day of the exhibition: “I would like to tell you how extremely satisfied we are for having organised such a rich Motor Show in the current economic scenario, with very few defections, and for how, once again, we organised an event that just could not be missed. This was all possible thanks to the enormous effort by all the car manufacturers, the event partners and the support of all the Category Associations, and the amazing professional organizational skills of Promotor International. The Motor Show has been in the limelight during these last ten days, and the exhibition has been taken as an example of a real indicator of the state of health of the economy of the country. […]”

(Source: www.motorshow.it)