For those who thought last summer’s three blocks of McLaren and other high-performance cars on Queen Street was a  spectacular event, this year’s Niagara 5000 coming to Niagara is going to be beyond spectacular.

Not only will we see McLarens and vintage luxury cars, but names like  Porsche, Bugatti, Rolls Royce, Pagani, Aston Martin, Lamborghini, and Bentley and Mercedes will rule the streets of Niagara-on-the-Lake.

And if taking over Niagara Region for three days of showing off rare supercars and luxury brands isn’t enough, promises organizer Alana Hurov, this year’s event includes a private jet show, with events to be held at Niagara District Airport.

The Niagara 5000 will run from Thursday, Aug. 7 to Saturday, Aug. 9, beginning with fireworks and a Light up the Falls event in Rolls Royce colours for the evening Thursday, followed by a Supercar Parade in Niagara Falls Friday and a car cruise throughout the region Aug. 8, including stops at wineries, farm markets and other locations in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

“We’re aligning different cars with different locations,” she explains, “where owners of supercars will stop at their location.”

“If you’re out on the streets in NOTL,” says Hurov, “you’ll see these cars. “There will be supercars as far as the eye can see. There will be 300 to 500 supercars in town.”

She’s also planning a “supercar cruise shuttle,” that will take people to the locations where the vehicles are stationed.

For Hurov, the founder of the event and this year’s CEO of Niagara 5000, seeing how it has grown in just three years is really exciting.

“To get this expensive show of cars and jets here in Niagara – nothing like this has ever happened before.”

Along with the main events will come vendors, all having to live up to the Rolls Royce brand to be part of the event, she says. “They have to be the best of the best.”

And in terms of what it will do for the region, she adds, “it will be hugely impactful. This is bigger than anything the region has ever seen.”

The first year, a one-day event with about 20 luxury cars on Queen Street attracted about 5,000 people and was considered a “huge success.”

As promised, the two-day show lat year in NOTL eclipsed that, with the street closed and about 20,000 people coming out to see not only McLaren vehicles but dozens of other high-performance vehicles, including Porsches, Austin-Healeys, and other luxury cars.

But given the size of this year’s endeavour, she’s no longer having to pull this off by herself — she has a team of people to help her.

“This is like a movie coming to life,” she says of the unfolding of this spectacular event. After imagining something of this scope and size could come together, “it’s really happening.”