When you walk onto the showroom floor at the North American International Auto Show, the bright lights and polished shine of the cars surround you.
You'd think a wash, wax, and polish for the cars would be good enough.
I mean, these things are indoors. What can muck them up?
Dust. That's what.
And not just dust... fingerprints too! (for heaven's sake)
So at the North American International Auto Show, you see a small army of people hovering over the cars with feather dusters, a little towel, and a spray bottle.
Carlos Bryant has been keeping the Bentleys looking sharp at the Detroit auto show for more than a decade.
At the North American International Auto Show today, the Chinese-owned Guangzhou Automobile Group, or GAC Motors, announced plans to build Jeeps to sell in the Chinese market.
GAC Motors is a state-owned automobile business located in the city of Guangzhou in southern China.
Nissan found itself in the spotlight at the North American International Auto Show today. But not entirely for reasons that would please company executives.
At the unveiling of the all-electric VIA Motors truck, former auto exec Bob Lutz held a conversation with a holographic presentation of Thomas Edison.
VIA Motors is a privately held electric vehicle development and manufacturing company. The company is working to develop a purely electric truck under the VTRUX brand name.
Volkswagen is working to continue to gain market share in the United States.
Today at the Detroit Auto Show, the company unveiled a new concept car aimed at the highly sought after North American SUV market.
The "CrossBlue," as it's called now, is a six to seven seat SUV with a "plug-in hybrid powertrain that mates a TDI Clean Diesel engine with two electric motors."
That's right... lift the hood, and you're not likely to know what the heck you're looking at.
But that's the future of cars. Automakers are moving toward cars with multiple power plants that can be engaged in different circumstances.
Volkswagen says the "CrossBlue" would get 35 mpg in "combined mode" (similar to the hybrid mode of today's Prius), and the equivalent of 89 mpg in all-electric mode (with a range in that mode of 14 miles).
Here's the unveiling of VW "CrossBlue" (complete with the 'demographic dancers'):
Jonathan Browning, President and CEO of Volkswagen Group America said the CrossBlue concept is "exactly the right type of vehicle for the U.S. market," but it still has a ways to go before it would be introduced here.
The car is an indication of where the company is headed.
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