Detroit Auto Show

I spent the night at my brother’s place last night in preparation for an early trip to Detroit. We arrived at Cobo Hall around 1130am and entered the auto show. The Detroit Auto show is a chance for all of the major auto manufacturers to show their stuff and to showcase their new concept cars and to vie for the consumer’s favor.

We spent well over three hours there walking around to all the displays and showcases. Some of the more note worthy cars were from Toyota, Saab, Scion, Saturn, and Mitsubishi. Toyota had an impressive array of cars and trucks. The Sequoia looked very impressive. It is exactly what every man’s man would desire in a full size SUV. It is truly enormous. Of course they had a few different kinds of Prius’, one you could plug into a standard 120v outlet to charge the batteries for short trips.

The new Saab 93 was amazing. I got a few pictures of it and sitting in it made me feel like a rich snob. Scion on the other hand had an entire wall of cars. Seriously, they built a rack and had their cars packed into it like match box cars. Most noteworthy was the new xB which is much larger and rounded now. Also I learned that Scion means “descended from, or heir to”, interesting. Saturn is starting to create some nice luxury and full sized cars. They are getting really good at making a nice front end that catches the eye, but keeping their cars reasonably priced. Mitsubishi decided to go retro this time around and make their GTO look like an old 1970s barracuda, or so my dad said.

All in all it was a great little trip. We had dinner at the Parthenon which is right across the street from the Greek Town Casino. We road the people mover over to the casino from Cobo Hall which in and of itself was an experience. You can really tell this is a car town. No one likes it and it is a really short loop.

Now I have to get started on a paper for school, so that I have some direction when I try to finish it tomorrow.