2008 North American International Auto Show - Detroit- over 30 Photos

[Boobydoo]

Hello all from the frozen tundra of Michigan

I work for a company that supplies the A/C and Heater tubes and hoses to the car companies. We have many customers and in fact, our company, in which we are one subsidiary of, is the largest rubber producing company in the world (by sales $). Anyway, today it was mine and 3 of my co-workers duty to attend the "Industry Preview", which is basically supplier day where the suppliers like us get to go into the auto show and look at all the cars prior to the show opening to the public on Saturday. It was a work day and we worked hard (but we had fun too) as we were tasked to go in and benchmark/document with photos and a written synopsis every vehicle's A/C lines looking for what our competitors and the rest industry (our non customers) are doing different from us.

While I was there, I also brought my personal camera and took pictures of all the cool cars I could get. I will share those here.

Lots of photos ... enjoy!

Smiles!
BDoo


There was a fairly large Chinese presence this year which is a first.
Here's one photo of a Taxi that is used in Asia



Lot of cool sports cars!
2008 Corvette ZR-1

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2008 Viper

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2008 Ferrari


2008 Lamborginis

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The Speed Racer car - The Mach 5 from the upcoming Movie

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The new Chevy Camaro . I think this is still a Concept car

The new Nissan GT-R

 

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[Boobydoo]

Re: Detroit- Photos - North American International Auto Show

Lots of Concept Cars

A Cadilac concept car


Chevy Beat Concept


Saturn Concept


Mazda concept... this one is very cool!

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Chrysler Zeo Concept

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Jeep Concept

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Hummer HX Concept


Toyota A-Bat Concept


and a 100MPH Electric Hybrid from Finske motors called the Karma

 

[Boobydoo]

Re: Detroit- Photos - North American International Auto Show

Other cool cars

a Mazda Concept "Race" car


One of Gibbs racing new Toyota Camrys


The Jeep Rubicon


Scion had a cool display three rows high. Here's the top two rows. I cropped the bottom row because there were a lot of people standing in front of it/


Lots of mini cars like this one from Nissan.
A city car used in Asia

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Maybe you have seen the Smart on TV... on the Nintendo Wii ads.

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They also had one cut away everywhere showing all the safely features.
It has actually passed crash testing in the US.


There were these cool looking little cars from China, more like golf cart size really. The far one is called the Detroit Fish and is an anfibious vehicle that seats 4. It has a propeller on back. Sorry, my close up didn't turn out.


This one is named "The Book Of Songs"


and this one "A Piece of Cloud" .
Someone needs to tell them, in the US, any car with the name "A Piece Of..." will not really work too well


Finally, I had to include this. The Toyota Tundra. They has the coolest commercials on TV huh. Well, the big load of iron in the back of this truck is actually very well disguised wood. I thought that was funny.

 

[Boobydoo]

Re: Detroit- Photos - North American International Auto Show

Finally, here's a few "artsy" photos I took today also.

Hope you enjoyed the "Show"

One of the Statue of Joe Louis. It's a 40 feet bronze statue.

Brown Bomber


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The Cadillac Grill


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Window Seat


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Fire


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Windscreen

 

[MetalFury]

Thank you for the pics...VERY cool! I love cars and I'm a huge racing fan. My main love is NASCAR but I do still watch Formula 1, Indy Cars...pretty much if it has an engine and they race it, I like it!

 

[River Rat]

Great pics, BDoo. Thanks for taking us along to the auto show.

RR