01-15-2017, 11:56 PM | #1 |
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The best cars at NAIAS
The Detroit auto show was a little disappointing this year. No Porsche booth, no Tesla booth (both I guess weren't here last year, either), and a drought of cars with a manual left me scratching my head about a favorite.
Until I visited the Michelin booth. Pure sex. Other highlights? The GT in red? I dunno. Maybe the booth professional at Alfa? I did see one odd thing. Here's the Ford GT race car fresh off its Le Mans win. They didn't even clean the bugs off! Except...wait. Didn't I see the Le Mans winning Ford GT at CES a few days ago? Suspicious. Also, I guess BMW had some boring cars there, and Audi, but they were all slush boxes so WGAS. VW had a Buddha gnome. |
01-16-2017, 04:53 AM | #2 |
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Love the vw bus and the "alfa"...
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01-16-2017, 07:07 AM | #3 |
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the fuq? Those are two different cars with the same number. Different headlights, and different graphics package (look at the EcoBoost on the front corners - very different).
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01-16-2017, 09:43 AM | #4 |
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There are a number of differences. Heck, the mirrors are pretty obvious.
It's definitely not the same car. |
01-16-2017, 09:51 AM | #5 |
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A little googling finds the pic below from an article about the win. The dirty one at Detroit is the real deal.
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Those Singers are awesome.
Surprised Porsche declined to show the new GTSs in Motown.
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01-16-2017, 11:39 AM | #7 |
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Yeah, it was definitely a different car. It makes sense that they'd pull the LeMans car off the circuit and preserve it. Not sure if the CES car was a tribute or a spare or something else.
Was even more obvious from the side. Also there was this terrible badging on an Infiniti, which looks the badges from 3 different cars. More of the Singers. The new Terrain. GM decided that the biggest problem with the last one was too much rear visibility, I guess. |
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Re the Terrain… Looks like GM needed to jump on the black c-pillar trend. Not sure if it was the new Murano or new Lexus whatever that got those to market first, but its definitely the new trend… Yuck
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