The hand-made,
one-of-a-kind Spyker sports convertible.
Phasakorn Channgam
Cars and motorcycles from 27 manufacturers revved up
Central Festival Pattaya Beach for the Fast to Fest 2011 Pattaya Motor
Show.
Chonburi Deputy Gov. Pongsak Preechavit, newly
elected Pattaya MP Sansak Ngampichet, and city council Tourism & Sports
Committee Chairman Rattanachai Sutidechanai opened the July 30 - Aug. 7
event, which covered two floors of the beachfront mall.
The exhibition saw the debut of the GP800 from
Gilera, which was touted as the world’s fastest superbike, as well as
the Mercedes-Benz SLK 200. It also featured the exotic F1 Lotus Renault
R31 and the hand-made, one-of-a-kind Spyker sports convertible.
Do the racing stripes make
it go any faster?
The region’s top automotive manufacturers - including
Mercedes Benz, BMW, Lexus, Lotus, Lamborghini, Porsche, Volvo, Nissan,
Toyota, Ford, Chevrolet , Kawasaki, Vespa, Yamaha, Honda - were on hand
to show off and sell their latest models.
Safety was a big part of the exhibition, with
seminars on helmet use, a helmet-exchange program run by the Pattaya
Zero Accidents Program and the donation of 800 helmets to Pattaya City
Hall, the Pattaya Police Station and Banglamung Police by Mityon Pattaya
Co.
“Don’t touch” - the car,
not the girl - or perhaps both.
