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Cartier "Travel With Style" Concours D’Elégance comes to New Delhi, India in March 2011
The second Cartier 'Travel With Style' Concours will showcase another extraordinary collection of India's unique Classic Cars on Saturday 12th of March, 2011 at The New Delhi Jaipur Polo Club.
Cartier "Travel With Style" comes to New Delhi in March 2011.
Cartier hosted the first ever international Concours D' Elegance in India at the Royal Western India Turf Club Mumbai in 2008. Cartier 'Travel with Style' celebrates the remarkable design and craftsmanship which went into creating these most luxurious and distinctive of cars. A panel of hand-chosen international classic car cognoscenti from across the globe judged the cars in different classifications.
It was a historic moment in the history of Indian motoring that gained wide spread recognition for the beginning of the classic car movement in India - a true eye opener to the extent of the nation's rich heritage. Owned by Indian royalty and private collectors, 64 of the most rare and historically significant automobiles were on display in public for the first time ever bringing alive the eccentricities and uniqueness of the Indian automobile industry.
During the time of the Raj, India's opulent ruling families bought the finest cars in the world in unbelievable quantity and the greatest coach builders and designers were specially commissioned to produce lavish, distinctive and sometimes bizarre specifications to satisfy the whims, taste and eccentricities of their fabulously rich clients.
On 12th of March, New Delhi shall experience the mystical opulence and elevated elegance of the Indian Maharajas with a private view of the second 'Travel with Style' exhibition celebrating the automotive design and coach building of India's belle époque. However, this year, to keep in vein with the mystique and excitement of a 'true' Concours, every car has to be in running order and will make one circuit at the event, guaranteeing a truly wondrous spectacle.
Set to rank alongside the other world-renowned Concours, such as the Cartier 'Style Et Luxe' , at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the 'Concorsa D'Eleganza' at the Villa D'Este and the 'Pebble Beach Concours D'Elégance' in California, the Cartier 'Travel with Style' Concours has put India on the International Classic Car Circuit.
This year 56 cars have been selected to compete in seven categories at the Cartier Concours in New Delhi, adding four new exciting classes to the previous event in Mumbai, 2008, including, of course, 'The Best Car of the Show Award'. The four new categories are – the Indian Heritage Class, the Preservation Class, the Classics / Rolls-Royce Class and the Jaguar Class. The returning categories this year are - the Classics, the Post-War Classics and Roadsters.While the Preservation Class is an internationally known class, the three new classes have been specially created by the Cartier Concours Curator H.H. Rana Manvendra Singh of Barwani for this show. The bar of excellence has never been higher for an event that has already set the very highest of standards and fierce competition.
Photo credits: © Cartier 2011
NEW CLASSES
The Indian Heritage Class.
This unique class will distinguish the Cartier 'Travel With Style' Concours from any other in the world. It has been created to highlight the Indian Automotive history by exhibiting original examples of cars that were assembled in India after Independence – 1946 to 1959.
The Preservation Class.
A fascinating class that aims to display un-restored cars straight from the factory. This class follows strict criteria, with all the cars requiring to have their original paint and upholstery. A new international class, it will showcase cars in 'as found' condition, or as it is known in America – 'barn finds' Many of the exhibited cars will have peeling paint, torn seats and are completely original in every respect.
The Classics/Rolls-Royce.
This new class is in effect a division from the 'Classics' category, as it will allow pre-1939 Rolls-Royces to shine on their own. Arguably, one of the most popular luxury cars of its time, the Rolls-Royce out sold its contemporaries comprehensively and will highlight some quite extraordinary cars. Many are special body vehicles designed specifically for Indian Royalty.
The Jaguar Class.
Organised in association with Jaguar, this class will showcase the thoroughbred pedigree of these evocative cars and their presence in India from the company's heydays of early sports cars to the latest luxury models.
Among the 'jewels' appearing in this year's Concours is a 1930 Stutz, featuring a unique 4- passenger Speedster body-style with a dual cowl. This is the only known Stutz in India and was created in America during the height of coach-built luxury car era. The Stutz was an expensive and luxurious Mark similar to Duesenberg and Rolls-Royce.
Within the Jaguar Class line-up there is a stunning 1937 SS Jaguar 2½-litre Tourer. Not only is this the oldest Jaguar in the show but it is also the first model to carry the Jaguar name.
While some of the cars in the Preservation Class will easily show their age via their paint and upholstery, a 1959 Chevrolet Impala will appear to have been in a time capsule.
The highlight of the Classic/ Rolls-Royce Class is the 1911 Rolls-Royce 40/50 H.P. One of the most famous cars in the world, this Silver Ghost, known as the 'Throne Car', was ordered by the Mahbub Ali Khan, Nizam VI of Hyderabad. To celebrate its own centenary at the Cartier Concours, Cartier is restoring the 'Throne Car' to its original glory. For the first time in a hundred years this legendary car will leave Hyderabad.
The Cartier 'Travel With Style' Concours D' Elegance will be judged by an international panel of well known figures hailing from the automotive, creative , business, media, film, music, fashion and sporting worlds. Some are Classic car connoisseurs, owning fabulous collections of their own.
Others are simply lovers of beauty and arbiters of taste and design. All of them have expressed feeling thrilled and honoured to play a part in this unforgettable exhibition which showcases the cream of India's unique heritage of automobile history. Confirmed judges to date include: HRH Prince Michael of Kent, Simon Kidston, Sir Anthony Bamford, David Clark, William 'Chip' Connor II, Lapo Elkann, Bryan Ferry, Geordie Greig, Sir Michael Kadoorie, Yasmine Le Bon, Olivier Martinez, John McCaw, Gordon Murray, Marc Newson and Peter Stevens.
The Concours will be compered by Alain de Cadenet, one of the most respected and accomplished racers of vintage cars.
All the cars have been personally selected by Rana Manvendra Singh of Barwani, automotive historian, restorer and India's most respected and experienced Classic car expert.
CARTIER 'TRAVEL WITH STYLE' CONCOURS
NEW DELHI , 2011
THE JUDGES
Setting the standard with their appreciation of fine form, exquisite style and exceptional design, the
judging panel draws on the experience of some of the world's leading designers, most successful
industrialists, best known arbiters of taste, and most knowledgeable collectors of classic cars.
HRH Prince Michael of Kent (KCVO & GCVO)
Prince Michael, a keen and knowledgeable car enthusiast, supports over one hundred charities and organisations, including the Royal Automobile Club, of which he is President. His Royal Highness' Patronages include the FIA Foundation, First Gear, Benjafields Racing Club, The Brooklands Museum Trust and The Institute of the Motor Industry. Prince Michael also donates a lot of his time to road safety and is the Patron of Roadsafe and of the Commission for Global Road Safety. In 1999 Prince Michael was part of a team that set a new 1,000 mile speed record for cars over 5000cc in a 1929 Bentley Special.
Mr Simon Kidston
Simon Kidston started his career in 1988 at Coys in London and in 1996 left to co-found Brooks (now Bonhams) Europe in Geneva. For a decade he was responsible for staging successful sales such as the annual Les Grandes Marques à Monaco event and creating the Ferrari auction in Gstaad, Switzerland. He is the nephew of 1920's aviation breaker and 'Bentley Boy' Commander Glen Kidston. One of his father's last motoring acquisitions, a 1973 Porsche Carrera RS, is still in Simon's cherished possession and he enjoys historic events at the wheel of his Lamborghini Miura SV and Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing. He has judged and commentated at the famed Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance for
several years and is the official presenter of the Mille Miglia, the Villa d'Este Concours and the Milano San Remo historic rally.
The Hon. Sir Michael Kadoorie
One of the world's foremost tycoons and philanthropists, Sir Michael Kadoorie is the Chairman of CLP holdings as well as The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels: owners and operators of the world-renowned Peninsula Hotel Group. A trustee of the Kadoorie Charitable Foundation, Sir Michael was made an Officer of the Légion d'honneur by the government of France and a Commander of the Order of Léopold II of Belgium. He
was awarded a knighthood, as a Knight Bachelor, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List on 11 June 2005. A fan of classic cars, he is the owner of a number of rare automobiles including a Type 57 Bugatti, a 1932 Phantom II Thrupp & Maberly, a 1934 Hispano-Suiza J12 Van Vooren Cabriolet, a 1969 P400 S Miura Lamborghini and a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.
Mr Geordie Greig
Geordie Greig became the editor of the London Evening Standard in March 2009. In June 2010, he was appointed Editorial Director of the paper, and also of The Independent and The Independent on Sunday . Geordie started his journalistic career as a crime reporter on the South-East London and Kentish Mercury in Deptford. After staff jobs on the Daily Mail and Sunday Today , he joined The Sunday Times in 1987 as a general reporter. He was the New York correspondent for five years and then the paper's Literary Editor for five years, until he was made Editor of Tatler in August 1999. In his 20 years as a journalist, he has covered wars, fashion shows, riots, film premieres and interviewed many celebrities, most recently for Tatler: Peter Blake, Bryan Ferry and David Hockney, Martin Amis, V.S. Naipaul and Anish Kapoor. He is the author of Louis and the Prince : a critically acclaimed history of the story of friendship between George VI and his grandfather. Geordie was born in London in 1960 and educated at Eton College and St. Peter's College, Oxford where he read English Language and Literature.
Mr David Clark
David Clark is a great car enthusiast, with a lifelong involvement in the historic car business and GP racing. He was a Director of McLaren from 1994-1998. A prominent driver in historic motorsport, he has raced some of the world's great cars including the Aston Martin DBR1, DP212 and DP214; and the Ferrari 250 GTO and 250 SWB. His favourite car is his McLaren F1 GTR, which he has owned it since 1997. In 1995, the car led Le Mans for 13 hours and eventually came third overall.
Sir Anthony Bamford
Sir Anthony Bamford became Chairman and Managing Director of JCB at the end of 1975, succeeding his father, the late Joseph Cyril Bamford CBE, who founded the company on the day his son was born on 23 October 1945.Sir Anthony's career began with a two-year engineering apprenticeship at Massey Ferguson in France before he started at the JCB World Headquarters in Rocester, Staffordshire, in 1964. Five years later he established JCB SA, the company's French subsidiary in Paris, which has become the model for JCB's world-wide development. Under Sir Anthony's leadership, JCB has grown to become one of the world's largest and most successful construction equipment manufacturers. JCB has won more than 50 premier awards for exports, marketing, design, technology and for its care for the environment, among them 25 Queen's Awards for Technological and Export achievement. Sir Anthony was knighted in 1990, is a former High Sheriff and is a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire. He has been instrumental in setting up the JCB Academy in Rocester: a £22 million project to create the next generation of young engineers. Sir Anthony has a life-long interest in both classic and modern cars. It was his idea to make an attempt on the world diesel land speed record with a car powered by JCB engines; in 2006 his vision saw the JCB Dieselmax car, powered by two JCB engines, set a new diesel land speed record of 350.095 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats, USA. The record remains unbroken.
Professor Peter Stevens
Twice nominated as the UK's Prince Philip Designer of the Year, Peter Stevens is one of the UK's best-known and most sought-after international transportation and product designers. He has won numerous honours for his work which includes creating road and race cars for McLaren, Lamborghini, BMW, Lotus, Prodrive and TWR, among others. Professor Stevens' designs comprise both specialist, bespoke vehicles, and others which are created for mass production, and sell in their thousands. His well-known designs include the McLaren F1 road car, the 1999 Le Mans-winning BMW, the Lotus Elan, the Lotus Esprit revision and Jaguar's XJR-15. He also designed both the Subaru Impreza P1 road car and the world rally series-winning Subaru Impreza WRCs. Most recently Mr Stevens has been involved with a high performance electric sports-car for the Ecotricity Company based in the UK.
Professor Gordon Murray
A renowned designer of Formula One race cars and the famous McLaren F1 'supercar' road car, Gordon Murray started his career at Brabham and was appointed Chief Designer by Bernie Ecclestone. There, he designed many Grand Prix cars and World Championship winners. These designs include the BT46B, also known as 'the Brabham fan car', as well as the BT49 and BT52. From 1991 – 2004 Professor Murray headed up the off-shoot McLaren Cars team to design road-going supercars; the McLaren F1 and Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. In July 2007, Gordon Murray Design was established to develop an innovative and disruptive automotive manufacturing technology, trademarked iStream® along with the T.25 - a radical city car - central to both the development and validation of iStream®.
Mr William E. 'Chip' Connor
William E. (Chip) Connor is Chairman of William E. Connor & Associates Ltd., one of the world's largest privately held global procurement companies. An avid automobile collector, racer, and exhibitor for more than 30 years, his collection of over 75 cars ranges from those of the classic era to 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's sports or racing cars. He is a long-time competitor in both modern and vintage racing and is a regular exhibitor and judge at Concours d'Elegance around the world including Pebble Beach, The Quail, Cartier Style et Luxe and others. He has received over 40 class, 'Elegance', and 'Best of Show' awards including 'Best of Show' at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
Mr. John E. McCaw Jr.
John McCaw is the co-founder of McCaw Communications and McCaw Cellular, Inc, which was eventually sold to AT&T Communications. He has been involved in professional sports franchises, having been the sole owner of the National Hockey League's Vancouver B.C. Canucks, the National Basketball Association's Vancouver, B.C. Grizzlies (now in Memphis, TN]), Vancouver, B.C.'s General Motors Place Arena and minority owner and board member of the Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners. He is the founder of various private equity funds focused on investing in closely held financial services and retail companies. He is a car collector focused on important sports racing cars: predominantly pre- and post-war cars from England, Germany and Italy, which he enjoys driving and displaying in rallies and shows around the world, including the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, The Quail, the Goodwood Revival, the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Mille Miglia.
Mr Lapo Elkann
Lapo Elkann is a New York born Italian industrialist and creative entrepreneur. After graduating from the London Guildhall University he worked as Personal Assistant to Henry Kissinger at Kissinger Associates in New York City before moving back to Italy and starting in the family owned Fiat S.P.A in 2002 as Assistant to the Institutional Relations Director. He quickly moved on to become Marketing Associate for Ferrari and Maserati and then took charge of Fiat Europe Operative marketing B.U. Promoted to Director of Brand Promotion for the Fiat Group (comprising Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Ferrari, Maserati), he co-ordinated the reinvention of such classics as the Fiat Punto and Fiat 500, and their subsequent relaunches. He left the family Group in 2006 and in early 2007 created the first of his companies: Italia Independent, a lifestyle brand featuring products conceived, developed and produced in Italy. Independent Ideas, the communication and advertising agency followed the year after. Lapo is Global Ambassador of the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Israel and Worldwide Ambassdor for the Italian Design Museum/Triennale. He also sits on the Board of Phillips de Pury.
Mr Marc Newson
One of Time Magazine's 'most influential people in the world today', Australian born designer Marc Newson's aesthetic vision and uncompromising originality has won him international acclaim. He studied jewellery and sculpture at Sydney College of the Arts. His work covers a broad spectrum of disciplines including: furniture, interiors, timepieces, objects of all sorts, sculptural work - as well as major projects in the transportation industry including surfboards, bicycles, a concept car, a jet and a suborbital spacecraft. As Creative Director of Qantas Airways, he has been responsible for everything from airport lounges to the interiors for their entire fleet, including the new A380 Superjumbo. His clients include many of the largest companies in the world. His works are held in prestigious private collections and in the permanent collections of all the major museums. The recipient of numerous design awards and honours including 'Royal Designer for Industry' in the United Kingdom, he holds Adjunct Professorships at Sydney College of the Arts and at the Hong Kong Polytechnic. He has also judged at the Cartier Style et Luxe at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Mrs Yasmin Le Bon
Yasmin Le Bon has enjoyed a successful and high profile modelling career for nearly thirty years. In the late 1980s, she appeared on the cover of the first American and British issues of Elle , and has subsequently graced the covers of over 400 magazines including Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Harper's Bazaar . In 2003, she signed an exclusive deal with the designer Matthew Williamson. As a model, Yasmin Le Bon has been a favourite of photographers including Patrick Demarchelier and Arthur Elgort, and designers from Azzedine Alaïa to Karl Lagerfeld to Versace. She has represented Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdale's, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior and Escada, and her own clothing and jewellery collection YLB, has now been available for two years. Mrs Le Bon has a keen interest in vintage cars, and has been at Judge at the Cartier Style et Luxe at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Mr Bryan Ferry
After studying Fine Art at Newcastle University, Bryan Ferry exploded on to the music scene with the first Roxy Music album in 1972. The band was the ideal vehicle for his talents as composer, singer and visual artist, and they have released eight albums, the most recent being Avalon in 1982. As a highly influential solo artist, he has released a number of critically acclaimed albums covering a wide range of musical styles, including his latest release Olympia . He is currently in the middle of a world concert tour. Bryan is a regular visitor at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and has been a judge at the Cartier classic car Style et Luxe competition.
Mr Olivier Martinez
Following studies at the prestigious CNSAD in Paris, Olivier Martinez began his acting career in native France in 1990 where he rapidly achieved success. In 1994 he won a César Award as 'Most Promising Actor' for his role in Un, Deux, Trois, Soleil (1993). He then came to mainstream attention in Hollywood with his performance opposite Richard Gere and Diane Lane in Unfaithful (2002) and has since had many starring roles.
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Mr Alain de Cadenet
Alain de Cadenet made his reputation building and driving his own sports prototypes, taking on the full works factory teams and, at times, even beating them. In 1976 he finished third overall at Le Mans, and in 1980, he won two rounds of the World Sportscar Championship at the Monza 1000 kilometres and Silverstone 6 hour events, with co-driver Desiré Wilson. He is also one of the most respected and accomplished racers of classic and vintage cars. He has owned and raced some truly important machines, particularly Alfa Romeos. He is a TV personality for the SPEED Channel and ESPN hosting Legends of Motorsport , as well as the network's coverage of the Goodwood Festival of Speed. He is also an avid rider of vintage motorcycles.