KATHMANDU, 21 August 2026 — Nepal has spent this month looking at vehicles. Next week it can look at everything that comes after the vehicle.The HP Lubricants Presents 18th NADA Auto Show 2026, opening at Bhrikutimandap on 25 August, will occupy roughly 300,000 square feet with more than 200 stalls. Fifty-three vehicle brands will be present 23 passenger, 17 light commercial, 13 two-wheeler.

They will not be the majority of the exhibitors.Around 70 companies on the floor sell nothing that can be driven away. They supply tyres, batteries, engine oil, helmets, bearings, gaskets, filters, diagnostic equipment, professional workshop tooling, GPS and telematics systems, accessories and EV charging hardware. 

Around ten banks, financial institutions and insurance providers will be present with auto-loan and motor-insurance products, including EV-specific financing.This is the part of the automotive industry that Nepali consumers interact with for a decade and see on display for approximately never.“A person spends three weeks choosing a vehicle and ten years living with the choice,” is how one way of putting it goes. 

The three weeks happen in a showroom. The ten years happen in a workshop, a bank branch, an insurance office and a tyre shop.The exhibition is organised into distinct zones four-wheeler, two-wheeler, financial institutions, auto components and garage equipment precisely so that the second set of questions can be asked in the same visit as the first.

The vehicle brands themselves span an unusually wide geography for a single Nepali floor: European engineering from Škoda, a Malaysian national marque in Proton, and Chinese manufacturers including Chery, whose Omoda and Jaecoo lines arrive alongside GWM. Japanese, Indian, Korean, Czech, Malaysian and Chinese origin vehicles will stand within walking distance of one another.

An International Business Pavilion will host foreign exhibitors. A Made in Nepal / Made for Nepal Pavilion will carry domestically manufactured and assembled products. “People assume an auto show is a room full of vehicles. Most of our floor is the industry that keeps those vehicles running once the excitement is over. 

That industry deserves to be seen.” — Surendra Kumar Upreti, President, NADA Fifty years ago, an exhibition of Nepal’s automotive industry would have fit into a corridor. The reason it now needs 300,000 square feet is not that there are more vehicles. It is that there is more industry.