{"id":495240,"date":"2016-02-17T12:25:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T20:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=26490"},"modified":"2024-03-01T06:27:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T06:27:33","slug":"2016-is-world-motoring-heritage-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/2016-is-world-motoring-heritage-year\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 is World Motoring Heritage Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

FIVA, the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale des V\u00e9hicules Anciens<\/em>, has named 2016 as World Motoring Heritage Year \u2014 both in recognition of our motoring history and to celebrate a new dawn for the historic vehicle movement throughout the world. This year also marks the 50th anniversary of FIVA itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the perfect time to launch World Motoring Heritage Year, as we\u2019re at the dawn of a bright new age of classic motoring,\u201d says Patrick Rollet, President of FIVA, a non-profit-making enterprise set up in 1966 that currently represents 85 member organizations in more than 64 countries, on behalf of millions of individuals with a passion for historic cars, motorcycles or utilitarian vehicles.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a time when new technology and autonomous cars are poised to change the face of motoring forever, you only need look at the similarly dramatic shift in transport at the end of the 19th<\/sup> Century \u2014 when horses were almost entirely replaced by motor vehicles \u2014 to see a vibrant future for classic cars as recreational vehicles. Indeed, there are some startling parallels between the environmental crisis of the 1800s, and the challenges facing the motor industry today.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it is right to celebrate motoring history. The automobile has \u2014 over the last hundred years or so \u2014 had a hugely liberating effect on humanity. FIVA welcomes safer, cheaper, more environmentally friendly modern vehicles as necessary transport, but as autonomous cars become the norm on arterial roads, the back roads will increasingly be available for people to enjoy classic motoring.\u201d<\/p>\n

To mark World Motoring Heritage Year and emphasize its new mission statement, \u201cProtecting, preserving and promoting world motoring heritage,\u201d FIVA is planning an ongoing series of events and initiatives throughout the coming year, including:<\/p>\n