With at least 30 new cars and trucks scheduled for debut, Detroit's North American Auto Show is grabbing the "Motor City" mantle back -- for this week, anyway.
The New York Times employed cautious optimism to describe the improving prospects for the show, and auto industry as a whole. The good news: exhibitions are being built with more steel. The bad news: no Electric Avenue this year, kids.
This crush of new products promises displays that are more appealing than they have been in recent years, when the cars of many makers were widely spaced across lumpy carpeting. No, the show is not yet ready to return to its profligate ways of a decade ago, when Ford reportedly spent as much as $30 million on its multitiered Detroit display. But the budgets have been stretched a bit further.
Over 5,000 journalists will descend on the auto show this week. We have a feeling next week's Buzz will be a fun one. Read the rest of the article
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