Next Major Auto Shows...L.A., Detroit, D.C.
12-05-12, 10:45 AM
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Next Major Auto Shows...L.A., Detroit, D.C.
For those of you interested or planing to attend the next three major American shows, here are the web-sites and info. As usual, I will be at the D.C. show for (probably) three or four days.
For those of you planning to attend the D.C. show, you can (usually) get free or reduced-price show passes at any local D.C.-area car dealership, starting about a week or so before the actual show itself (WANADA, a local coalition of dealerships, actually sponsors the show).
The L.A. show, of course, is already in progress.
(L.A.) http://www.laautoshow.com/
(Detroit) http://www.naias.com/
(D.C.) http://www.washingtonautoshow.com/
For those of you planning to attend the D.C. show, you can (usually) get free or reduced-price show passes at any local D.C.-area car dealership, starting about a week or so before the actual show itself (WANADA, a local coalition of dealerships, actually sponsors the show).
The L.A. show, of course, is already in progress.
(L.A.) http://www.laautoshow.com/
(Detroit) http://www.naias.com/
(D.C.) http://www.washingtonautoshow.com/
12-05-12, 01:49 PM
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The D.C. show is now considered a borderline Class-A show. Formerly (about 7-8 years ago) it was a lower-ranking Class-B. The proximity of the national government, of course (where Congress actually makes a lot of the auto-regulations) has helped a lot.
L.A. and Detroit, of course, are solid Class-A's. The Detroit show is still considered the nation's largest and most important.....though both the L.A./SoCal and D.C.-Baltimore areas easily trump the Detroit area in car sales. The huge D.C. area sells roughly six times the number of new vehicles as the Detroit area......and the even larger SoCal region ten times as many.
L.A. and Detroit, of course, are solid Class-A's. The Detroit show is still considered the nation's largest and most important.....though both the L.A./SoCal and D.C.-Baltimore areas easily trump the Detroit area in car sales. The huge D.C. area sells roughly six times the number of new vehicles as the Detroit area......and the even larger SoCal region ten times as many.
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12-05-12, 01:58 PM
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The D.C. show is now considered a borderline Class-A show. Formerly (about 7-8 years ago) it was a lower-ranking Class-B. The proximity of the national government, of course (where Congress actually makes a lot of the auto-regulations) has helped a lot.
L.A. and Detroit, of course, are solid Class-A's. The Detroit show is still considered the nation's largest and most important.....though both the L.A./SoCal and D.C.-Baltimore areas easily trump the Detroit area in car sales. The huge D.C. area sells roughly six times the number of new vehicles as the Detroit area......and the even larger SoCal region ten times as many.
L.A. and Detroit, of course, are solid Class-A's. The Detroit show is still considered the nation's largest and most important.....though both the L.A./SoCal and D.C.-Baltimore areas easily trump the Detroit area in car sales. The huge D.C. area sells roughly six times the number of new vehicles as the Detroit area......and the even larger SoCal region ten times as many.
In any case it's a good way to spend a cold February day.
12-05-12, 02:09 PM
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The Detroit show, though, is still where the largest concentrations of the auto-press, magazine-writers, and company-execs gather. Though not having a complete monopoly on new-vehicle-unveilings, it is still the show where that is most likely to happen. I've posted, at length, in the past, about how the Detroit show's opulence, IMO, because of habit and tradition, is now outdated and has far outlasted the true influence of the Detroit area. Even the Big-3 major domestic corporations, once-headquartered there, have spread out more to other areas as well. Chrysler, for example, is now owned by an Italian company....and Ford and GM have offices, plants, and branches all over the country.
12-05-12, 02:21 PM
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12-05-12, 02:48 PM
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We'll wait and see, but it might (?) be up on a turntable away, locked, and partly-restricted from public-access. Auto companies typically (but not always) bring new models down on on the floor and unlock them unless it is still more than 12 months (1 calendar year) away from official introduction....then they keep them still under at least some wraps. But they can (and sometimes do) put them, locked, up on the turntable (or rope them off on the floor and lock them) at any time. Chevy, for example, was paranoid about show-access to the latest-generation Camaro a few years ago before it was unofficially unveiled.
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12-05-12, 02:58 PM
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We'll wait and see, but it might (?) be up on a turntable away, locked, and partly-restricted from public-access. Auto companies typically (but not always) bring new models down on on the floor and unlock them unless it is still more than 12 months (1 calendar year) away from official introduction....then they keep them still under at least some wraps. But they can (and sometimes do) put them, locked, up on the turntable (or rope them off on the floor and lock them) at any time. Chevy, for example, was paranoid about show-access to the latest-generation Camaro a few years ago before it was unofficially unveiled.