The annual automotive soirée in Detroit is well underway, with a couple of manufacturer already showing their wares at offsite events before the party gets going at Cobo today. Members of the media won’t have to don their woolens going forward; next year, the whole shebang transitions into a summertime event.
There are plenty of rumours — but what do you want to see unveiled at this year’s Detroit show?
We’ve already seen the new Ford Explorer and Cadillac XT6, along with an image of what GM promises will be Cadillac’s first salvo into the all-electric crossover market. In case you haven’t heard, by the way, The General has decided that Cadillac will be responsible for leading the charge in EVs — pun intended.
For those not familiar, press conferences are held during show media days by various automakers who want to show off product and give out USB sticks. The schedule generally gives a bit of insight into what debuts one might expect.
In addition to the Explorer event last week, Ford has a conference slot Monday morning. Your author dearly hopes a Shelby GT500 breaks cover. Ram and Toyota both have time set aside as well, where the latter will finally pull the sheets off the new Supra after a gestation period longer than that of an African Bush Elephant.
With OEMs increasingly looking to unique venues for space in which to reveal their new cars — this allows them to own the news cycle — there is a good chance Chevy will show the ‘Vette elsewhere. A great spot would be to surprise all hands with a reveal at Daytona when the 24 hour race kicks off next weekend. GM takes Corvette Racing quite seriously — its pair of C7.Rs completed 341 laps and more than 1,200 miles this past weekend in practice.
Still, I’d love to see the new Corvette bow in Detroit. What would you like to see?
By the time WordPress finally pops out a comment there won’t be any miserable sedans left anyway, so I’m good.
Truth be told?
I’m sick of all the “concept Cars”, “Design Studies” and “prototypes” and “cars that will never exist”. I used to feel like it was a preview of what was to come, but the last 5 some odd years, they’ve been concept vehicles with no potential chance of fruition and no real innovation, just all the tech they can pile into a pretty frame. I’ve been disenfranchised.
So I want to see some REAL stuff. I don’t even care what it is as long as its REAL. New vette? I’d love it, but I’ll take a dang geo tracker if its a real geo tracker.
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Agreed. I’m not sure I’ll even attend the Pittsburgh version in February.
Lots o’ people curious about the S209 announcement..
Me too, though lowering my expectations and predict it will have 311hp (the most powerful STi in North America ever!)
THE BRONCO, the regular one not the baby…
Quit teasing FORD.
“Quit teasing FORD.”
Let’s eat grandma.
Let’s eat, grandma.
Commas save lives.
Respectfully…
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“THE BRONCO, the regular one not the baby…
Quit teasing FORD.”
I’m really, REALLY hoping so….but not holding my breath…
What can you want from car show if all makers do same thing, over and over again, repeating and copying each other?
You can complain about it and pretend it hasn’t been going on for over a hundred years.
I hardly complain. I only go to car shows to disqualify cars for some reason or another with future purchase in mind. And it is really boring when every car on the floor has 2L-T under the hood.
All products list Country of Manufacture and list by percentage were the vehicles parts were manufactured. The results would shock some people.
They do already. On the window sticker they say, engine country, transmission country, assembly country. Then they have part content. Only problem is, when you see, USA-40%, CAN-29%, you can only guess, where other % is coming from
How about one of those Ford scooters they’ve been teasing us with?
Well, Dodge hasn’t launched a truly new vehicle in about a decade, so it would be nice to see any signs of life there!
I want to see Hackett ghosn.