PRESS RELEASE - March 19, 2012

No Limits Show

World launches * Record-breaking supercars * Test drives * Expanded exhibition space *
Top Marques watches & jewellry * Sea trials

Top Marques Monaco is revered as the world’s most exclusive supercar show where you can experience the latest state-of-the-art machines with test drives on the Formula 1 circuit - mere weeks before the famous race takes place. Car afficionados can’t beat the sensation of manoeuvring the Racasse corner in a Koenigsegg Agera R – BBC’s Top Gear Hyper Car of the Year and a Guinness Book of World Records holder. It does a thrilling 0-300 km/h in 14.53 seconds. Nor will they be able to resist the staggering power of the Roding Rodster whose entire chassis is constructed with the highest grade carbon fiber, combined with a BMW 6 in line 320 hp Turbo engine. And best news of all, Top Marques Monaco will launch the world premiere of the stunning, handbuilt Renovatio T 500 from Tushek in Slovenia.

At Top Marques we think our way is the only way to experience a car. The old practice of car shows prohibited the public getting up close and viewing was from behind a velvet rope. At Top Marques visitors can touch and feel the pure power and precision of the supercars; the arresting fumes of petrol ready to burn and the anticipation of powerful engines revving into action in the test drive pits dominate the show.

There are no barriers at Top Marques – except at the VIP bar.
No limits on speed. Tick. Though visitors often simply stop and stare.
No pesky velvet red ropes protecting the cars. Tick.
No parameters curtailing the imagination. Tick.
Instead Top Marques is about possibilities that you won’t find anywhere else. It is about visitors getting into the car and behind the wheel. It is about meeting the creators, designers and engineers of these masterpieces. The show’s ethos says it all: See it! Drive it! Buy it!

This exclusive show, now in its ninth year and growing (by 20% this year – with an extra 500m²), is about the extraordinary; it is about supercars in their natural environment - on the Monaco Grand Prix track - allowing you to put machines through the motions before you buy your heart’s desire; Above all Top Marques is a consumer show.  

Top Marques is not just staggeringly beautiful cars, but also sleekly designed Superboats with cutting-edge design and speed to match and unashamedly attractive, unique and expensive watches. Our “wacky racers” – as the Financial Times quipped about our supercar aficionados in an article this month, can also sea trial in the Med the most stunning power boats, luxury tenders and toys of the water kind with one of our high performance watches on their wrist. The FT goes on to say that “Top Marques is shamelessly aimed at a super-rich clientele”. Thanks to our buyers the car engineers can continue to explore pioneering technology such as electric, to produce cleaner and more efficient vehicles.
www.topmarquesmonaco.com/news/ftspecial_2012.pdf

Nothing is more desirable than the confidence one feels as you fit like a glove into the leather bound driving seat and glide along with pure power in your hands in a car, which at any moment can turn your whim into a 0-200 kph flight of fancy.

Top Marques Monaco will spearhead the car industry into new territory next month, 19-22th April 2012. Among the supercar manufacturers are Koenigsegg, Pagani, GTA Motor, Tushek Supercar, Noble, Roding Automobile, Savage, Fisker, Soleil Motors, MS Design, Mansory, Gembella, Hamann, Merdad Collection, MTM, DeLavilla, Pace-Insider Cars and Top Car as well as classics like Aston Martin, Ferrari and Jaguar. There is a huge increase in the number of motor bikes being presented this year: DK Motorrad, Greber, Avinton, as well as electric bike from LITO Green Motion.

Key Partners:
For the third year we are delighted to welcome our Gold partner, American Express Business Travel, operates one of the world’s largest travel agency networks with locations worldwide. With more than a century of solid experience in the business travel & luxury industry it is now the 23rd best known brand in the world (Interbrand ranking).
The Top Marques Macau show will take place 22nd -25th November 2012 at The Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel, and is the Asian edition of the world's most exclusive supercar and luxury show. Last year, over 12,500 visitors attended the successful first edition of the show in Macau. The Venetian Macao has stunning and city-like scale facilities including a 3,000-suite hotel, casinos, 30 restaurants, 330 boutiques, as well as leisure and entertainment choices and over 100,000 m² of purpose-built convention and dedicated business meeting space in the heart of Macau. The Top Marques Macau show will take place 22nd -25th November 2012 at The Venetian Macao, and is the Asian edition of the world's most exclusive supercar and luxury show. Last year, over 12,500 visitors attended the successful first edition of the show in Macau.

We are delighted to welcome our media partner AutoBild to Top Marques Monaco; last year they wrote an amazing full-blown 13-page report on the show!
www.topmarquesmonaco.com/downloads/autobild_june2011.pdf

Let’s stop you in your tracks. Supercars return to Top Marques Monaco 19-22th April 2012.
Pour accéder à la version française, veuillez cliquer ici.

www.topmarquesmonaco.com

www.topmarquesmacao.com

MANSORY

Production on the highest technical level combined with masterly craftsmanship and most precious materials – this is the quality standard of MANSORY. Harmonically designed aerodynamics programs, ultra-light aluminium rims and powerful engine performance enhancements are the basis of the MANSORY technology. High-quality accessories and stylish interior fittings complete the assortment.
www.mansory.com

AAA LUXURY & SPORT CAR RENTAL

AAA luxury & Sport Car rental is dedicated to luxury and sport car hire, and limousine services. With offices based in Cannes, Paris, Monaco and Hamburg, our leading company proposes to you a large and continuously renewed selection of prestige and sport cars. Our team delivers cars all over Europe.
www.aaarentcars.com

KOENIGSEGG

What we´ve known for 16 years is now official. Koenigsegg is amazing!

The Agera R is not only BBC´s Top Gear Hyper Car of the Year, but now also a proud record holder in the Guinness book of world records. After breaking several new world records on the 2nd of September 2011 the Guinness book of world records announced the new Koenigsegg Agera R as being officially amazing. The Agera R recorded the new production car world records at the Koenigsegg proving ground in Ängelholm, Sweden. All the data was measured and collected by a third party with the officially accepted Racelogic VBox performance recorder. The numbers are as follows: 0-300 km/h = 14.53 sec / 0-200 mph = 17.68 sec / 200-0 mph = 7.28 sec / 0-300-0 km/h = 21.19 sec / 0-200-0 mph = 24.96 sec.
www.koenigsegg.com

TUSHEK

Tushek supercars team have spent many years carefully distilling hard earned road and race knowledge into perfect package called Renovatio T 500 - unique handbuilt supercar.
www.tushek.com

SAVAGE RIVALE

Savage Rivale releases the Savage Rivale GTR
The track version of its big brother (the roadyacht GTS), is built on the same platform but is equipped with a more powerful V8 engine with a power configuration of around 700-800 BHP. The GTR combines this with a lower weight and is therefore the ultimate Boy-Toy weighing only 1030 kg.
The best bang for your buck, only 69 will be hand built, securing its exclusivity.
The Savage Rivale GTR will be unveiled @ the Top Marques Supercar show in Monaco the 19th of April 2012. Visit us on stand B4 in Monte Carlo, Monaco!
www.savagerivale.nl

APOLLO VREDESTEIN

A new Ultra-High Performance tyre
Vredestein will attend Top Marques Monaco with its Premium Styling by Vredestein concept. This unique concept is focused on Ultra-High Performance summer and winter tyres for the exclusive car market. Designed by the renowned Italian designer Giugiaro, Vredestein tyres guarantee superior road handling and performance with an elegant and stylish appearance.

At Top Marques 2012 Vredestein will launch a brand new Ultra-High Performance summer tyre. This tyre will become the new benchmark in the industry and will combine top notch performance with elegant Italian design. To present the tyre Vredestein will cooperate with Rimac Automobili, known for its ground breaking electric supercar called Concept_One. The car will be equipped with HRE wheels, Vredestein's Premium Styling partner for exclusive custom made rims.

Together with its partners Vredestein will offer visitors of Top Marques Monaco a unique presentation of its tyre range. Tyres that are made with the utmost care in its European production facility, engineered and designed to fulfill and supersede the highest demands.
www.apollovredestein.com

MS DESIGN

You are looking for a car as unique as you, a car that reflects the corporate identity of your company, or just something special. You are looking for Mobility that inspires!
Since 25 years MS Design is living this slogan and produces individualisation kits containing everything from a unique body kit, finest leather interior, lower suspension setting and more. All to create a car as individual as you. At Top Marques Monaco 2012, MS Design will present two very special Cup editions of the Abarth 500. The “Cup Sport” version with 220PS waits at the testing area to show how big small can be. The exclusive Version will be presented at the stand C-11 and promises a sporty but nevertheless elegant design.
www.ms-design.com
www.facebook.com/MS.Design.Stylingworld

EH LINE

EH LINE stands for E Mobility at its best, combining an unique design, superior technology and quality made in Austria.
www.ehline.com
www.facebook.com/ehline.eu

M55 BIKE

After the premiere of the trailblazer Classic Terminus at Top Marques 2011, the remaining 4 puzzles of the Terminus model range have also come to life in the past months. As a teaser, all we can say that if you were shocked by the Terminus' radical design, prepare for the extravaganza to take you to another level.
The Biceps edition
Our patented single-arm front-suspension design is a true extravaganza, a true collector's item.
The Airbrush edition
The Terminus Classic's technical artistry enhanced with fine arts of an airbrush artist.
The Royal edition
How about spicing up the classic design with shining Swarovski crystals, gemstones of your choice with optional gold/silver carbon textures on the carbon-fiber components? This is the Royal edition.
The Prime edition
This is the 'no limit' version of the Terminus. Nomen est omen - Exclusively produced one of a kind models for the V.I.P.
www.m55-bike.com

AMERICAN EXPRESS

Founded in 1850, American Express has more than a century of solid experience in the business travel & luxury industry and is now the 23th best known brand in the world (Interbrand ranking). That's why Top Marques Monaco 2012 is once again, for the third year, a natural choice as partner; the show offers an ideal opportunity for the business travel leader to present its expertise to a HNWI international clientele.

VIP American Express Business Travel
Created in 2002 the American Express Business Travel VIP Division regroups twenty partners entirely dedicated to our most demanding clients. It is comprised of three departments:
The VIP division (Espace VIP Travel) is designed to respond to business clients’ most demanding schedules and to meet the challenging requests of board executives committees with customized and confidential travel solutions. Transtours Affaires specialises in business trips to Eastern Europe, aided by privileged partnerships with American Express suppliers (for transfers, hotels and apartments) in every capital in Central and Eastern Europe as well as offering privileged access to the Russian consulate in Paris and other consulates. The VIP Sur Mesure et L’Espace Vacances proposes tailored leisure offers as well as organising premium seminars and made-to-measure vacations in partnership with selected and preferred tour operators.
“Continually confronted with natural and industrial disasters, companies are evolving today in a particularly unstable political and economic context exposing their employees to greater risks", declared Catherine Hillenweck, Director of the VIP Department of American Express Business Travel.
“In 2012 the VIP Division wished to underscore the ‘Security and Safety’ issues of importance to companies and their managers, as well as expat staff, but also to underline the preservation of the heritage of firms, the legal responsibility of management, as well as the safeguarding of the company image. To achieve this aim, the VIP Division signed a privileged partnership with Daniel Rémy Group, a internationally recognised group, who since 1976, are specialists in analysis and risk management, and it also applied a new interactive application, Track Point, allowing companies to best manage crisis situations and to anticipate possible security problems".
All these solutions, available to companies and their employees to ensure secure business travel and meetings, no matter what the destination, will be presented at Top Marques Monaco 2012.

Contact commercial : +33 (0) 1 72 03 98 25
Contacts Presse: Béatrice Hervieu / Chrystelle Castellani Tél: +33 (0) 1 47 77 35 45 / 30 31 comfr@aexp.com

www.americanexpress.fr/voyagesdaffaires

 

American Express Voyages d’Affaires,

Fondé en 1850 et fort d’une expérience de plus d’un siècle dans le secteur du voyage et du luxe, American Express est aujourd’hui la 23ème marque la plus connue au monde (classement Interbrand). C’est pourquoi American Express Voyages d’Affaires est cette année encore partenaire du salon Top Marques. L’opportunité pour le leader mondial du Voyage d’Affaires d’afficher son savoir-faire en matière d’accompagnement de ses clients les plus prestigieux lors de leurs déplacements.

L’Espace VIP d’American Express Voyages d’Affaires
Créé en 2002, L’Espace VIP se décline en trois pôles :
- « L’Espace VIP Affaires », conçu pour répondre aux demandes de voyages professionnels des  comités de direction, avec des solutions de voyages personnalisées et confidentielles.
- « L’Espace Transtours Affaires », une offre spécifique pour les déplacements professionnels vers les pays de L’Europe de l’Est, un partenariat privilégié avec nos fournisseurs dans toutes les capitales de l’Europe Centrale et Orientale pour gérer les prestations terrestres : transferts, hôtels, appartements ; un accès privilégié au Consulat de Russie à Paris et autres consulats,
- « L’Espace VIP Sur Mesure », propose l’organisation de séminaires haut de gamme, de voyages personnels « à la carte » ou de vacances en partenariat avec une sélection de tour operators privilégiés.

 « Confrontées à des catastrophes naturelles et industrielles à répétition, les entreprises évoluent aujourd’hui dans un contexte politique et économique particulièrement instable exposant leurs collaborateurs à des risques toujours plus grands », a déclaré Catherine Hillenweck, Directrice du département VIP d’American Express Voyages d’Affaires.
« L’Espace VIP a souhaité en 2012, mettre l’accent sur la Sécurité et la Sûreté  des entreprises et de leurs dirigeants, des personnels expatriés mais aussi sur la protection du patrimoine (matériel, immatériel), la responsabilité pénale des dirigeants, ainsi que la préservation de l’image de l’entreprise. Pour ce faire, l’Espace VIP a signé un partenariat privilégié avec un groupe internationalement reconnu, depuis 1976, spécialiste de l’analyse et du traitement des risques, le Groupe Daniel Rémy et s’appuie sur une nouvelle application interactive, Track Point, permettant aux sociétés de gérer au mieux les situations de crises et anticiper les éventuels problèmes de sécurité ».
 
Toutes ces solutions, mises à la disposition des entreprises et de leurs collaborateurs par l’Espace VIP d’American Express Voyages d’Affaires pour sécuriser leurs déplacements et rencontres professionnelles, et ce, quelle que soit la destination, seront bien évidemment présentées à l’occasion du Salon Top Marques 2012.

Contact commercial : +33 (0) 1 72 03 98 25
Contacts Presse: Béatrice Hervieu / Chrystelle Castellani Tél: +33 (0) 1 47 77 35 45 / 30 31 comfr@aexp.com

www.americanexpress.fr/voyagesdaffaires

A selection of Supercars, Superboats and luxury watches exhibiting at Top Marques Monaco 2012

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Plage du Larvotto
MONACO

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