Organisers Upbeat, But Australian Motoring Festival Stalls

With the dust now settled on the inaugural Australian Motoring Festival, the examination of the exercise will no doubt run for more than the four days of the event.

Held at the the Melbourne Showgrounds, this new 'interactive' motoring event drew just 25,000 people through its gates - a quarter of the numbers initially expected by organisers.

And that will have RACV and VACC, the two bodies responsible for the staging of the event, as well as festival participants, thinking twice about its future.