The Paris auto present won't be maintained in its present type this yr due to the results of the coronavirus disaster, organizers stated.

The occasion is scheduled to run Sept. 26-Oct. 11, with media days on Sept. 29-30.

Organizers stopped in need of utterly canceling or suspending the present, however they urged that the normal automaker shows on the metropolis's exposition heart wouldn't be held this yr.

Solely peripheral occasions reminiscent of MovinOn, billed as a business-to-business occasion “on innovation and sustainable mobility” weren't but in jeopardy, the organizers stated in a press launch.

“We're finding out various options in session with our essential companions,” organizers stated, citing the gravity of the coronavirus outbreak and the "financial shock wave" to the automotive trade. Meeting vegetation and auto sellers are closed throughout Europe and North America.

The present is the newest trade occasion to be threatened by the virus pandemic, which has led to the...