VILLA D’ESTE 2022
Its elegance and attention to detail are its business card.
This exhibition of the world’s most exclusive historic vehicles has a name - Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, and a place - the dream like setting of Lake Como.
BMW Group Classic, the traditional patron of the event, in collaboration with the Grand Hotel Villa d’Este, welcomed all the participants and guests of the event in grand style.
During the competition about fifty magnificent cars representing almost a century of automotive history were presented, the spectators of the event were able to admire the "creme de la creme" of the automotive world, all seasoned with a magnificent Italian sun and a splendid Mediterranean cuisine.
The classes that competed this year were:
Class A: The Art Deco Era of Motor Car Design
Class B: The Supercharged Mercedes-Benz
Class C: How Grand Entrances Were Once Made
Class D: Eight Decades of Ferrari.
Class E: "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday"
Class F: BMW’s M Cars and their Ancestors
Class G: Pioneers that chased the magic 300 kph
In addition to more than 50 cars on display, BMW presented a wonderful collection of historic and modern cars and presented two highly anticipated premieres: the BMW M4 CSL and the BMW i /xDrive60.
Last but not least, Rolls-Royce paraded its brand new “Rolls-Royce Boat Tail”: a project four years in the making that generated cars, each unique in its kind for three very discerning Rolls-Royce customers.
At least half of the magic of the event is given by the location itself, in fact the iconic Villa d'Este Hotel celebrates its 150th season this year - "How Grand Entrances Were Once Made" presented the cars that have previosuly entered in the annals of the Competition as winners of the Villa d'Este Gold Cup or of the “Best of Show” trophy, since the inaugural event in held in 1929.
As winners of this competition we have:
Best of show by the jury: Bugatti 57S - 1937
Villa d’Este Coppa d’Oro: Aston Martin Bulldog
Class A:
Class Winner: Bugatti 57S - 1937
Mention of Honor: Cord 812 - 1936
Class B:
Class Winner: Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet A - 1936
Mention of Honor: Mercedes-Benz 540K Special-Roadster - 1936
Class C:
Class Winner: Chrysler Boono Coupe Speciale - 1956
Mention of Honor: Siata 208S - 1953
Class D:
Class Winner: Ferrari 365 P Berlinetta Speciale Three Seats - 1966
Mention of Honor: Ferrari 250 Gt Zagato - 1956
Class E:
Class Winner: Porsche 365B carrera abarth GTL - 1961
Mention of Honor: Maserati MC12 - 2004
Class F:
Class Winner: BMW 320 Gruppe 5 - 1978
Mention of Honor: BMW 320 Gruppe 5 - 1978
Class G:
Class Winner: Porsche 959 sport - 1989
Mention of Honor: Citroen SM - 1971
Concours d'Elegance design awards:
Bugatti Bolide - 2020
Already only from the prestige of the particpants, you can understand the level of uniqueness this event brings to the automotive world, so at least once in a lifetime every classic cars lover should all allow oneself the luxury of being able to sip a Martini and a puff on a good cigar, sitting one step away from the parade, and listen to Simon Kidston telling you in unheard of before details the story of every single car...
