Through 4 days of debate and discussion involving stakeholders and experts from across the transportation world, the congress successfully demonstrated that:

• The automobile is fully compatible with the equilibrium of the planet, and while certain centres of urban pollution do exist, new technologies are addressing this.

• The automotive industry has transformed societies, providing mobility and personal freedom for people and goods, and will in the future contribute to the development of new and better societies and civilisation as a whole.

• The automotive industry leads all other industrial sectors in integrating all the elements of globalisation, and will continue to do so in the next century.

• The automotive industry is capable of ensuring that new and existing technologies work in synergy to provide continuing developments which benefit all mankind.

• The automotive industry will continue to be one of the main contributors to global economic development and prosperity.