Archive for the ‘LA Auto Show’ Category
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 [...]
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
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 [...]
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
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 [...]
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
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 [...]
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
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 [...]
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
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 [...]
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
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 [...]
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
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 [...]
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