I can vividly bear in mind visiting ‘AutoRAI’ after I was at school. IAMS, or the Worldwide Amsterdam Motor Present (its precise identify), was held on the RAI Amsterdam Conference Centre and was a must-attend occasion for anybody involved in automobiles. Nevertheless, when huge gamers within the Dutch auto trade started backing out, the present led to 2016.
Finally, IAMS simply wanted a refresh, and it returned to RAI Amsterdam in 2018 with a brand new focus – supercars, hypercars and high-end customized and tuning corporations.
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Taking it one step additional, the Worldwide Amsterdam Motor Present organisers contracted RevWorks – a neighborhood automotive life-style and occasions promoter – to host an occasion throughout the occasion referred to as ‘Modified at IAMS’.
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Whereas it’s removed from an enormous occasion – even when the ‘Worldwide Amsterdam Motor Present’ identify would recommend in any other case – there’s at all times lots to see, so I headed alongside to test it out.
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As at all times, RevWorks took their job significantly by deciding on quite a lot of high-quality automobiles. The Modified at IAMS corridor had all the things from full-on stance automobiles to some critical high-power efficiency builds.
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Being the sneaker heads they’re, RevWorks added to the anticipated automotive vendor choices – suppose detailing suppliers, scale mannequin retailers and wheel retailers – with an enormous sneaker reseller sales space. Is {that a} first at a automotive present? Regardless, as a sneaker fiend myself, I beloved it.
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Elsewhere within the venue, high-end tuners that included Mansory, TechArt, and Brabus, have been properly represented.
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Imported vehicle taxes within the Netherlands may not be as excessive as you see in some Southeast Asian international locations, however they’re nonetheless substantial. That stated, in case you can afford one thing like a Koenigsegg Jesko Assault within the first place, what’s one other 150.000 Euro (roughly US$167,500) in BPM personal motorcar and bike tax?! That takes the full price of this automotive to three.5 million Euros (roughly US$3.8 million).
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I’ve heard that the proprietor of the Jesko Assault needed to additionally buy this unique-spec Rimac Nevera to get his fingers on the Koenigsegg, however because the deal was being performed for the Jesko he additionally ordered a second one, this time a good wilder Absolut model.
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How do you make a Brabus 6×6 much more in your face? You would wrap it in gold vinyl! That is the signature look of Dutch well being influencer Joel Beukers.
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Seeing outdated and new Alpines displayed collectively confirmed simply how properly the retro-inspired design was executed with the most recent automotive.
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Whereas I’m not a giant supercar man, this Ferrari lineup – which included an F40, F50, Enzo and a number of La Ferraris – was spectacular. These automobiles have an unmatched presence.
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Like what we noticed on the 100% Auto Stay present final 12 months, Modified at IAMS held a ‘Automobile Catwalk’ with dwell commentary from a presenter and the automobiles’ homeowners. To have the ability to hear the automobiles provides one other dimension to the present.
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I missed it, however the RevWorks crew introduced the noise, flames and smoke to the catwalk with this Demise Race-esque machine.
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As at all times, Chrome Vehicles displayed some screen-used Quick and Livid builds. Someway, Dr. Emmett Brown was capable of crash the occasion with a Again to the Future DeLorean DMC-12 time machine reproduction – not that anybody was complaining.
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The 2024 European summer time automotive season is in full swing, so I sit up for seeing what new Dutch builds present themselves earlier than the bookend occasion in October with 100% Auto Stay.
For now, there’s extra from IAMS 2024 so that you can try beneath.
Collin Tiemens
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