Top Marques Line Up for Top Gear Live Exhibition

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The Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, which retails at $489,000 will be one of many high end luxury cars on display.

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Monday 2nd February 2009

Top Marques Line Up for Top Gear Live Exhibition

The Top Gear Live brand is proving its amazing pulling power with a line-up of top marques signing to participate in the Top Gear Live Exhibition to be held at Auckland’s ASB Showgrounds, 12th – 15th February, 2009.

The Top Gear Live Exhibition is to be New Zealand’s premier showcase of autos including luxury and high performance vehicles, running alongside the dramatic Top Gear Live stage show when it visits Auckland as part of its world tour. This event will bring motoring to life, offering visitors the opportunity to get a taste of the luxury and prestige of the world’s best automobile brands. Visitors will be able to visit the Exhibition only, or to see it as part of the total experience when they attend one of the 10 fabulous 75min shows running in the venue alongside.

Marques confirmed for the Exhibition include high end models from Mercedes, Porsche, Jaguar, Range Rover, Renault, Aston Martin, Lamborghini, Bentley and Volvo.

Top Gear Live Show Manager Brett McLeod says that it is great to see that despite the global recession, distributors of luxury cars are still keen to get involved and showcase their cars to the Top Gear Live fans. “Top Gear Live is a phenomenon,” says Brett. “We’re seeing huge enthusiasm for anything bearing the Top Gear brand and we know this exhibition will become a must see for all car enthusiasts from throughout New Zealand,” he said.

Mercedes Benz New Zealand Marketing Manager Coby Duggan is delighted to be involved, “We’ll be having three models from our AMG range - the ML63, CLS63 and SL63 - which are the biggest and fastest models from our sports division,” he said. “Top Gear fans are very discerning and opinionated about their cars so it will be exciting to be able to show them to a public like this.”

Lee Small, General Manager from Independent Prestige has also confirmed there will be six premium cars on display. The Aston Martin DBS, DB9, and V8 Vantage Roadster; Bentley Continental Flying Spur, Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, and the very limited edition Gallardo Superleggera – a lightweight supercar with only 200 in the world. “This will be a line-up of the best cars on sale in New Zealand,” he said, “and we’re delighted to have an exhibition of this quality to get alongside of.”

Another key feature of the Exhibition will be Stig’s Lair, a must for all Top Gear enthusiasts, with the latest and greatest racing consoles and trigger and track racing, giving enthusiasts a chance to really experience the thrill of the track. And they’ll also get a chance to challenge the rest of the Top Gear Live audience to get the best time on the New Zealand trigger raceway, making this show as interactive and vibrant as it can get.

Says Brett, “if you can’t make it to the Top Gear Live spectacular, this is your chance to see, talk and experience the finest cars in the market today and also get a taste of the class, speed and mayhem of the Top Gear Live Show,” he said.

Admission Prices:
Adults: $15.00
Children (under 14): Free
Free for all theatre show ticket holders.

Exhibition Dates and Times:

Thursday 12th, 5:00pm to 10:00pm
Friday 13th, 2:00pm to 10:00pm
Saturday 14th, 9:00am to 10:00pm
Sunday 15th, 9:00am to 7:30pm

For more information check out www.topgearlive.co.nz
Tickets to the Exhibition are available from www.ticketek.co.nz

ENDS

About Top Gear Live

Top Gear Live is a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Brand Events UK.
The live motoring performance incorporates the drama of film and theatre with the thrills and spills of stunts and special effects. Presenters Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond team up with a local presenter in each tour destination. The tour is on course to play to a total worldwide audience of over 300,000 with a further tour planned for 2009 which is earmarked to include Germany, Netherlands, Poland and Russia.

About DMG World Media

Top Gear Live is brought to New Zealand by DMG World Media.
DMG World Media is an international exhibition and publishing company, producing more than 300 market-leading business to business exhibitions, consumer shows and fairs worldwide, with more than 30 offices around the world in countries such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, the United Arab Emirates, China, Australia and New Zealand.

DMG World Media is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Daily Mail & General Trust plc (DMGT). As a member of the FTSE 250, DMGT is ranked as one of Britain's largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange.

In New Zealand, DMG World Media (NZ) Ltd stages 13 consumer and trade shows each year, servicing a total of 4000 exhibitors and 300,000 visitors. The biggest of these is the Auckland Home Show, now the largest home and garden products show in Australasia and Big Boys Toys, Australasia’s largest male lifestyle exhibition.

Visit the website at: www.dmgworldmedia.com

About Shell V-Power

Shell V-Power is a high quality performance fuel available exclusively from Shell service stations throughout New Zealand.
The international Shell scientists who develop Ferrari’s Formula 1 motor racing fuels have taken what they’ve learnt on the track to create Shell V-Power’s unique formulation. It is designed to help keep new engines running like new for longer and restore older engines to peak condition.

About BBC Worldwide

BBC Worldwide Limited is the main commercial arm and a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The company exists to maximise the value of the BBC’s assets for the benefit of the licence payer and invest in public service programming in return for rights. The company has seven core businesses: BBC Worldwide Channels, BBC Worldwide Content & Production, BBC Worldwide Digital Media, BBC Worldwide Global Brands, BBC Worldwide Sales &Distribution, BBC Magazines and BBC Home Entertainment. In 2007/08, BBC Worldwide generated profits of £117.7million on sales of £916.3million.

Brand Events UK

Brand Events was formed in 1999 and has launched some of the UK’s most popular shows including MPH, featuring Jeremy Clarkson, The Outdoors and Vitality shows and more recently the Taste Festivals series of events. The 'Taste' format runs in seven cities throughout the UK and Ireland and locations around the world including Johannesburg, Dubai and Sydney. In 2009 Taste will run in 19 different cities around the world.

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