Continental will not take part in the Frankfurt motor show later this year.


Local press said today the company had taken the decision to save on costs. Automobilwoche quoted Continental CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann as saying the company must cut all possible costs in view of its debts and could not afford to spending a six digit sum on one show.


The last IAA [in 2007] attracted almost 1m visitors.

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