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The Car Connection - Autos Shows

The Car Connection - Autos Shows

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2008 New York Auto Show Coverage

Posted: 10 Mar 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Each year the world's car fans gather at convention centers around the world to ogle, ooh and ahh, and get generally titillated by auto shows. And while the circuit of shows used to be fairly geocentric, it's totally gone global -- and this year's internationally designated New York auto show is no exception. The New York show will host the world...


2008 Geneva Motor Show Coverage

Posted: 04 Mar 2008 12:00 AM PST

The Geneva show hails the beginning of auto show season in Europe. As the second big international auto show, after Detroit, the Geneva show is traditionally the kick-off of the spring selling season on the Continent, as well as a way for the world's automotive braintrust to gather over new concepts and production vehicles and gauge the state of...


2008 Chicago Auto Show Coverage

Posted: 05 Feb 2008 12:00 AM PST

Chicago's auto show is on - and TheCarConnection.com is reporting from the Windy City, through rain, sleet, snow and hail - maybe all four this evening, if predictions hold. This year's Chicago auto show may seem like a subdued affair at the moment. We've only been able to confirm a handful of world debuts, including the launch of Dodge's...


2008 Detroit Auto Show Coverage

Posted: 14 Jan 2008 12:00 AM PST

2008 Detroit Show: TCC's Top Picks (1/14/2008) Our favorite cars, concepts and moments from Cobo. 2008 Detroit Auto Show: Getting There by Rex Roy (1/9/2008) Make it easy, make it fun. PREVIEWS 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Preview by TCC Team (12/19/2007) A supercar by any name. 2009 Audi TTS by Bengt Halvorson (1/9/2008) The speediest TT promises...


2008 Detroit Show: TCC's Top Picks

Posted: 14 Jan 2008 12:00 AM PST

2008 Detroit Auto Show Coverage by TCC Team (1/9/2008)Ford F-150, Hyundai Genesis and Corvette ZR1. TCC Team Best Concept: Lincoln MKT This is a close one, but I am leaning heavily towards the Lincoln MKT, which shows that there's still life left in the old brand. Finally, something that really breaks out in the increasingly crowded luxury...


2008 Detroit Auto Show: Getting There

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 12:00 AM PST

Despite the griping about the weather, Detroit draws crowds downtown the North American International Auto Show. Hosted, as always (almost) at Cobo, the show dates for this year are January 18th-27th. Here's the inside scoop so you can make the best of your visit whether you're a first timer or an experienced show veteran. Of course, we at...


BMW “Blue” Diesels to Bow in Detroit

Posted: 02 Jan 2008 12:00 AM PST

BMW's latest green-car gambit arrives at the Detroit auto show in two weeks, as the German automaker plans to show off two new diesels that it will sell in all 50 states starting later this year. The two new models are the X5 xDrive35d and the 335d. Both are powered by twin-turbo, 3.0-liter in-line six diesels that use a urea-aftertreatment SCR...


Chrysler's '08 Detroit Concepts Go Hybrid

Posted: 20 Nov 2007 12:00 AM PST

Chrysler has provided an advance preview of its three concept cars for theDetroit show, about seven weeks in advance of the preview days when they'll be formally revealed to the press. But we can understand why they're quick on the trigger; if these concepts are any indication, the automaker, which has long been resistant to change and slow to...


2007 Los Angeles Auto Show Coverage

Posted: 14 Nov 2007 12:00 AM PST

PREVIEWS 2009 Lincoln MKS Preview by TCC Team (11/13/2007)From obscurity to mainstream? 2008 Ford Mustang Bullitt Preview by TCC Team (11/6/2007)Hidden in darkness, an L.A. show debut. 2009 Cadillac Escalade Hybrid Preview by Marty Padgett (11/9/2007)Two modes and batteries – in a big ute? 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid Preview by Marty Padgett...


2007 Tokyo Motor Show Coverage

Posted: 24 Oct 2007 12:00 AM PDT

The 40th edition of the Tokyo Motor Show opens Saturday, October 27 for the public and runs through Sunday, November 11. But as is custom, the world's automotive press will get their own preview starting next week – and TheCarConnection.com will be reporting live from the show floor. The Car Connection will hand at Makuhari Messe in Chiba City to...


Daihatsu in Tokyo: Tanto, Mud Master

Posted: 24 Oct 2007 12:00 AM PDT

Happy birthday to Daihatsu! The Japanese brand best known for its city cars is celebrating 100 years in business and marked the occasion with new concept and production cars at the Tokyo Motor Show. The most striking was the Mud Master, a small transporter prototype. Gull-wing doors open on three sides to create a convenient and practical...


Ford Musters ‘Stang, Escape for Tokyo

Posted: 24 Oct 2007 12:00 AM PDT

Like most Western automakers, Ford Motor Co. has largely written off the Japanese market, where domestic-oriented consumers – and strict import laws – have largely limited the market potential for automotive imports. That said, Ford hasn't given up entirely, as it demonstrated at this year's Tokyo Motor Show, rolling out a pair of products...


2007 L.A. Show Design Challenge

Posted: 22 Oct 2007 12:00 AM PDT

For the fourth year, the Los Angeles Auto Show is hosting Design Los Angeles, a world conference for designers, along with the Design Challenge, a design contest that garners entries from some of the brightest rising stars at top North American design studios. We've come to expect the Design Challenge to be an auto show of its own, with...


Hyundai Veloster For Real?

Posted: 13 Sep 2007 12:00 AM PDT

The Hyundai Veloster is one of the Frankfurt Motor Show's more striking concept cars. But according to the company it's not as outlandish as you might think and is a real production possibility. A spokesman for the Korea firm explained: "The Hyundai Tiburon will be replaced next year with a new larger model, currently known by its development...


Small is Beautiful in Frankfurt

Posted: 13 Sep 2007 12:00 AM PDT

When it comes to this year's Frankfurt Motor Show, UP! is down. Downsized that is, in the form of Volkswagen's pint-sized prototype car. Dubbed the UP!, it makes the automaker's original Beetle look positively huge. For the moment, the UP! is little more than a concept vehicle, but you likely won't have to wait very long to see it – or one of...


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