In 2023 the Warsaw Motor Show floor in our photographs belonged to Alpine, Mercedes and the tuners. By 2026 GAC and Leapmotor stood beside the Volkswagen and Audi dealer stands. We photographed the first day of all four shows at Ptak Warsaw Expo in Nadarzyn, and the shift runs through every set.
Four Shows, Few Figures
The organiser has not made it easy to measure. It published one visitor figure in four years, for 2025, and says nothing about how it was counted.
| Year | Dates | Hall | What the organiser published |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 13 to 15 October | D | No visitor or exhibitor figure found |
| 2024 | 15 to 17 November | A | No visitor or exhibitor figure found |
| 2025 | 14 to 16 November | not stated | 34,184 “professionals from 17 countries as well as a wide group of automotive enthusiasts”, the eighth edition |
| 2026 | 9 to 11 October | not stated | Called the ninth edition; no results published as of 15 October 2026 |
Source: Ptak Warsaw Expo (warsawexpo.eu, 11 Oct 2023, 25 Nov 2025 and 5 Oct 2026); warsawmotorshow.com attractions pages.
With no figure for the other years, we do not compare attendance. We compare what stood on the floor.
2023: Alpine, Mercedes And The Tuners
Polish trade press called the October 2023 show the first Warsaw Motor Show in four years (Superauto, 16 October 2023; Motohigh, 19 October 2023). Alpine’s dealer brought three A110s. Our photographs show A110S placards on a grey and a purple car and an A110GT placard on a green one.
Alpine’s German price list of 3 October 2023 ran from €61,950 for the A110 to €109,950 for the A110 R, with the S at €73,950.
The Mercedes dealer MB Motors had a new E-Class under a “Nowa Klasa E” placard, an AMG SL 63, an AMG C 63 S and an EQB. The E-Class launch list in Germany ran from €61,999 to €80,242, or €81,777 for the E 450 (ADAC; mbpassion, 17 August 2023). Windscreens carried monthly lease offers in złoty.
Twenty-eight of our 40 photographs show sports cars, supercars and tuned cars, among them a Ferrari 296 GTB, a Corvette C8, a Lamborghini Gallardo and a Mercedes G-Class on a tuner’s stand. Superauto and Motohigh both said Maxus, Hongqi and NIO dealers had stands, but none of them appears in our photographs.
We filmed the A110 GT, one of three A110s on the Alpine stand. Our Alpine A110 GT Up Close article has the full story.
We filmed the Ferrari 296 GTB at the Warsaw Motor Show 2023. Our Ferrari 296 GTB Up Close article has the full story.
2024: The A290 And A Banner
In November 2024 the show moved to Hall A. Alpine’s press page of 12 November said the A290 would be shown “przedpremierowo”, as a pre-premiere, and for the first time in Poland to such a broad audience. So we call it the first showing to the Polish public, billed by Alpine as a pre-premiere.
The German A290 list in November 2024 ran from €38,700 for the GT to €46,200 for the Première Édition (Alpine Germany, 14 November and 4 December 2024).
MB Motors came with eight models, according to Mercedes-Benz Polska, including the electric G 580. On the same stand hung a banner reading “Salon samochodów chińskich” over the name MBM Motors. It was the first sign of what came next.
The organiser said visitors could try cars from the Chinese market, such as NIO and Zeekr, while Superauto wrote that NIO was absent. We cannot settle it, and none of those cars is in our photographs.
2025: Whole Aisles Of New Brands
The organiser’s announcement of 6 November 2025 named Tesla Poland, DR Automobiles Group and MBM Motors among the exhibitors. Thirteen of our 40 photographs show cars whose badges name Dongfeng, GAC, BAIC or one of the DR Group’s brands.
Auto Świat reported on 14 November, the day we were there, that DR Group was debuting five brands in Poland at the show. They were DR, EVO, Sportequipe, ICH-X and Tiger, which it described as Chinese models assembled in Italy.
GAC, which began operating in Poland in 2025, showed the Hyptec HT and the Aion V. electrive gave the Aion V a European starting price of €35,990 without naming a market.
Alpine was still there, with a red A110 S, a blue A110 and two A290s, one grey and one black. The plates on the VW, BMW and Škoda stands named Polish dealers. Our Warsaw 2025 report covers that show car by car.
2026: GAC And Leapmotor Beside The Dealer Groups
The organiser’s pre-show page of 5 October 2026 promised a supercar zone of more than 1,000 square metres with Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren and Porsche, plus drifting. Our 32 photographs from the first day show something else.
VW Group and Audi cars stood on a “Grupa Krotoski” stand, alongside a Fiat 600, a DS N°7 and a Citroën C3 Aircross. GAC brought the Emkoo, Emzoom and GS7 PHEV, and Leapmotor the B03X, B10, B05 and C10. A banner above the GS7 PHEV read “Polska premiera GAC GS 7 PHEV”.
Leapmotor’s electric B10 runs from €30,400 to €39,500 in Germany, according to AutoBild’s list of 15 October 2026. The DS N°7 starts at €47,700 as a mild hybrid and €61,700 as an electric car (ecomento, 8 May 2026). The full Warsaw 2026 report has every car.
What The Photos Cannot Prove
None of our four photo sets shows a Mercedes, Alpine or Tesla stand in 2026. With 32 photographs, though, we do not claim they were absent. Supercars appear in our 2023 and 2024 photographs and not in 2025 or 2026, but the organiser’s own 2026 page promised a supercar zone, so we do not claim they left.
Our Take
What changed is what a visitor met first. In 2023 and 2024 the floor in our photographs was Alpine, Mercedes and the tuners, with Chinese brands present only in press reports and on one banner. By 2025 whole aisles belonged to brands that had only just reached Poland, and in 2026 GAC and Leapmotor stood beside Volkswagen and Audi.
The weak point is the organiser’s data. The one figure we have, 34,184 for 2025, is a description and not an audit, and the 2026 result was still unpublished on 15 October. That result is the number to watch. Set against 2025’s, it would give the show its first comparison from one year to the next.
Independent editorial. No brand or organiser paid for or reviewed this article.
