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This is a short preview of our customary feature where we celebrate the hard working product specialists at major auto shows.
Or rather, where I celebrate the hard working product specialists at major Asian auto shows.
Certain other TTAC editors don’t seem to be interested in product specialists. Or they are keeping the good picture for themselves.
In this feature, we will explain the cultural differences that divide Chinese and Japanese auto shows.
At Chinese auto shows, female presence on press days is subdued. They come out en masse when the general public has access.
Today at the Tokyo Auto Salon, it was totally different: Massive contingents during press time. Less later during public access.
Please check back tomorrow.
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Maybe I have a one track mind, but I notice at least a couple of Vellfire vans in those pics. Can I ask what the ratio of JDM custom vans there were to JDM custom cars? Don’t count the foreign (i.e. non Japanese) stuff please.
I can give you the relation of fake brunettes to natural black haired. Probably 9:1. It’s a big problem.
I’m getting old. I can’t look at any of those girls without thinking of my own daughters.
The fake brunettes are never going to go away, but at least the surge of fake blondes with eyeliner by Sharpie seems to be receding…
The hair colour ratio is just about the same on any random Tokyo subway train.
@tmkreutzer:
True dat. My daughter belongs to the different-hair-color-of-the-month club.
Now where is Boothbabe to tell us about how they are respectable trained pros, not just decorations?
Geeze, TTAC is becoming more like engadget.
Photo #2 girl on left please.
Re: Corvette and Asian Carhop Waitress – “Yes We Are OPEN”. (Insert your own joke here…)
Did you just all my penis a joke?
Another major cultural difference is with the Germans, who corner the market in gorgeous six-feet-tall valkryries.
Please hang it up. Um, Bertel, you are yet another creepy white man with an Asian chick fetish.
These pictures always bring out the most erudite comments.Could you please not let my wife know that I have an Asian chick fetish?
I love the fragrance of gorgeous six-feet-tall valkyries in the morning.
“Certain other TTAC editors don’t seem to be interested in product specialists. Or they are keeping the good picture for themselves.”
A couple of years ago when I started Cars In Depth just before the 2011 NAIAS, I made a short list of things that made sense to shoot in 3D. Booth professionals were near the top of the list, ahead of cutaway engines. When you have 3D gear, the word for not shooting the pretty ladies is “stupid”.
I don’t know what the other staffers have planned, photography wise, but I’ll be putting up 3D pics of the NAIAS booth professionals at Cars In Depth and I can post mono versions here.
3D boobs require 3D glasses?
Uh…
Not in Japan. Japan is a mountainous country with flat women.
Them some sexy 12 y/o boys.
Creepy. But I suppose it’s best to think cautiously in some foreign environments. Is Japan one of those? There’s only one here that I’d be worried about being a lady-boy if I were in Bangkok. It’s the really fake looking one in photo 2 with hips the same width as her waist.
the girl in the 3rd shot in front of the white van is cute as hell
do all kinds of illegal things to her
I do like that ‘vette in the last shot
Japanese are sexists and homofobs. Where are male product specialists? I am going to boycott Japanese car manufacturers! Here at San Francisco autoshow we proudly display LGBT product specialists!