Archive for the ‘LA Auto Show’ Category

LA 2008: People watching in the city of angels

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Well, it was only a matter of time before we got around to posting our people gallery from the auto show.
Models were pretty scarce this year in Los Angeles, but they were definitely still worth the effort to stop and photograph. We also had a few celebrity sightings again, although none at the press conferences [...]

LA 2008: 2009 Audi Q5 makes its North American debut

Friday, November 21st, 2008
LA 2008: 2009 Audi Q5 makes its North American debut

Although we’ve already seen the Audi Q5 in a variety of forms after its initial unveiling in Beijing this past July, the four-ringers decided to finally show off their cute ‘ute in North America for the first time at the LA Auto Show. The compact(ish) CUV is packing the award-winning 2.0-liter TFSI gasoline engine putting [...]

LA 2008: Random sights from the show

Friday, November 21st, 2008
LA 2008: Random sights from the show

While we did a lot of coverage of the LA Auto Show this week, there are always some interesting things at the convention center that just don’t make into a post of their own. We’ve collected a bunch of photos that we thought were worth sharing and decided to just dump them into a gallery [...]

LA 2008: Braille Battery Nissan Altima Hybrid time attack hot rod

Friday, November 21st, 2008
LA 2008: Braille Battery Nissan Altima Hybrid time attack hot rod

On display at this year’s LA Auto Show is a Nissan Altima Hybrid racecar aimed at pleasing the eco-radicals of California, and the folks over at Autoblog Green. The car was first released at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, but the LA crowd is really more up its alley. This Altima is a direct [...]

LA 2008: Mitsubishi shows a pair of ’70s novelties

Friday, November 21st, 2008
LA 2008: Mitsubishi shows a pair of ’70s novelties

We might have skipped the Mitsubishi booth altogether this year at the LA Auto Show if it hadn’t been for this pair of eye-catching cars from the ’70s. While checking out the neighboring Audi booth we spotted a toad-green FTO and then caught a glimpse of what looked like an old F1 car. The racecar [...]

LA 2008: Top 25 Desktop Wallpapers

Friday, November 21st, 2008
LA 2008: Top 25 Desktop Wallpapers

When the press conferences have died down and most of the cars have made their debuts, we like to roam the halls of the convention center and simply enjoy the cars. This also gives us a chance to take photos of the cars away from the crowds of journalists, and we’ve put together the 25 [...]

LA 2008: Mazda takes top honors in Design Challenge

Friday, November 21st, 2008
LA 2008: Mazda takes top honors in Design Challenge

It wasn’t the number one pick of our readers (earning the silver medal in your voting), but Mazda managed to take the top honors at the LA Design Challenge with its KAAN concept. The design itself is a fanciful look into a future where all the roads in California are paved with… um, sub-level electro-conductive [...]

LA 2008: PWM offers adult Erector Set to build work benches

Thursday, November 20th, 2008
LA 2008: PWM offers adult Erector Set to build work benches

While heading out to our first press conference of the morning here at the LA Auto Show, we spotted this… this… thing. It sort of looks like a car, but is actually an adult Erector Set of sorts.
Paul W. Marino Gages (PWM) offers this line of customizable shop benches and tools known as American Modular [...]