The 2008 Paris Motor Show took place from 4 October to 19 October 2008, in Paris expo Porte de Versailles.

This edition of the Paris Motor Show featured a high number of hybrid and electric vehicles (EVs), that led a blogger with The New York Times to ask, "Who killed the non-electric cars?".^[1]

Concept cars

Production cars

Motorsport cars

• Citroën C4 WRC Hymotion 4 (Eco-Concept)^[2]
• Peugeot 207 WRC
• Suzuki SX4 WRC

Taxis du Monde

As usual, Hall 8 hosted a special exhibition. In this edition, the subject was "Taxis du Monde" (Taxis from around the world), and it featured a variety of taxi vehicles from different cities and eras, such as a New York checker cab, a Chicago yellow cab, London black cabs, a Manila Jeepney, a Bangkok Tuk Tuk, etc., as well as several Parisian taxis, starting with the classic Renault Taxi de la Marne and ending with the proposed future taxi Peugeot Expert Tepee.

See also

• Paris Motor Show

References

• http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/news/enn.cfm#id_12040 Archived 2011-05-29 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mondial de l’Automobile de Paris 2008.

• Official web site
• 9 Sexiest Electric Cars from the Paris Auto Show Archived 2009-05-06 at the Wayback Machine.