More than 400 exhibitors have already committed to next year’s Automechanika Birmingham, the first Automechanika event to take place in the UK, and more than 500 are expected to be on board by opening day. Initial plans to hold the exhibition in a single hall at the NEC have been ditched in favour of a three-hall arrangement that covers in excess of 21,000 square metres. Early visitor and exhibitor number forecasts have also been doubled.