The Minister of Infrastructure Matteo Salvini at Porta Susa to present the Auto Show which will return to Turin, with the innovative formula of the event spread across the streets and streets of the centre, from 13 to 15 September. A showcase on the automotive industry in all its forms, from history to design to technical innovation, which aims to attract tourists and enthusiasts from all over Italy, thanks also to an agreement with Trenitalia with discounts of between 30 and 80% on tickets railways.
«Indoor salons are suffering – explained the patron of the event Andrea Levy – but we want to propose one new formula that combines the emotional aspect of historic cars and supercars with the possibility of testing all the engines on the road. Perhaps we are rushing a little too much towards electric, while we have a neutral approach to the car of the future, experimenting with all the best performing solutions, from hybrid to hydrogen, petrol and diesel”.
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A return after “a dark period in the history of Turin” recalled President Cirio, referring to the years of Chiara Appendino’s 5 Star administration. «It was the season of no – he added – of the no to the TAV and the Olympics, when a deputy mayor hoped that this fair, which at the time was held in the Valentino park, was carried away by hail. In the end the people of Turin got tired enough to take to the streets. Because if you make these mistakes you lose centrality. While we want to be at the center of the car, a capital of production but also of everything that surrounds it.”
An objective which, according to Mayor Stefano Lo Russo, was achieved «thanks to a shared vision between us and the Region capable of solving the problems. An element that makes the difference, because it puts the good of citizens at the center and differences of vision in the background. Thanks also to the minister for his attention to our territory.”
A praise of institutional harmony that is even more significant in the midst of an electoral campaign that Salvini liked: «They ask me why I am in Turin and Piedmont so often, and I reply that I go where interesting things happen. Indeed, I believe that the North West will be the economic surprise of the near future. We just have to hope that whoever governs in Europe will reconsider the decision to put the entire automotive sector offside by saying no to internal combustion engines. And we also need to rethink the incentive mechanism: if we put in a billion euros and this money instead of supporting a Piedmontese worker goes to fix the budgets of a Chinese factory this annoys me and it is clear that the mechanism needs to be rethought.” «Electric cars in Italy are a marginal market – he added -, because, despite the television advertisements at any time of the day or night, the consumer does the math and most of the electric cars sold are not Italian or European, but are Chinese. We are in the free market, but we have to ask ourselves what is the point of putting a billion of citizens’ public money in car bonuses if a good part of this billion does not end up in Turin but in Beijing.” «I wouldn’t want there to be an assisted suicide of an entire production chain. We still have time to reverse the trend, but if we do nothing this is fate.”
Salvini will be back in the city on Friday, for a conference on infrastructure in the morning in Venaria and to present his book Against the wind: «I will be happy to be at the Book Fair».