Several reasons including time, budget and the fact that we were only allocated enough tickets to get 3 cars on the stand, so it would look really empty and like we hadn't bothered - It's better to not have a stand at all, than a half-arsed one.

We haven't got the budget to buy extra tickets (it costs us to attend, and we make no money from going there), and we can't expect owners to pay for their own ticket to go on our stand.

I totally understand that the organisers need it to be profitable, and can't give too many tickets away, but considering the amount of promotion we do for the show before and after the event, plus having the mag there as an 'attraction' far outweighs the value of a few extra tickets!

We are sending a snapper so will be running a full show report on it as usual. And will continue to support the show editorially, and with pre-show coverage next year...