2019 BMW M Festival, South Africa

Psst, want to know a secret? Motor shows are dying. Well, okay, no great secret perhaps. There’s a groundswell of new, different and reformulated motoring get-togethers popping up that, while perhaps not directly leading the dinosaurs of Detroit, Paris and Frankfurt to the tar pits, is kindling interest of internet age car-lovers tired of time-honoured look-but-don’t-touch convention.