Miami auto show has been canceled this year. Will it return in the future?

One of South Florida’s signature events has reached the end of the road this year. The Miami International Auto Show is canceled.

Miami Beach communications director Melissa Berthier confirmed that the event “is not taking place at the Miami Beach Convention Center this year.”

But the event may not be gone for good. Berthier said that the auto show is “actively discussing future dates with the venue,” but couldn’t give further details.

For more than 50 years, the annual exhibition at the sprawling Miami Beach Convention Center has been a place for car enthusiasts and dreamers to see future models before they hit showrooms and car lots. People even get to sit in the luxury and sport cars they could never afford and peer under the hood.

The accompanying classic car section — with cars from the 1920s through the ‘70s — sent us all down memory lane. And the marketplace tried to sell us car-shining potions, mirror defoggers and kitchen slicers and dicers. Flower vendors lined the outside of the main entrance. Inside several sections of the hall, models spinning on rotating stages pointed to the latest models and rotely talked about their new features.

The show, usually scheduled each year in October and November, also featured some of the most expensive cars in the world, including new-model Lamborghinis, Ferraris and McLarens.

As cars advanced, so did the show. In 2012, the event rolled out more of a focus on eco-friendly tech. And it also geared exhibits toward young people — rolling out a “Topless in Miami” exhibit dedicated to sleek convertibles like the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster and the breezy South Florida lifestyle. The exhibit was designed to resemble the MacArthur Causeway.

“We wanted to sex it up a little bit,” said Richard Baker, at that time the show manager and president of the South Florida Automobile Dealers Association, which organizes the event.

The industry group that has presented the event for over the past five decades since the show began declined to comment Monday on why the show was canceled this year.

The show was canceled in 2020 during the pandemic and postponed in 2017 because of Hurricane Irma.

This story was originally published June 8, 2026 at 5:06 PM.