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| Interesting Concept (go to the drivela.org site for details...). Already started so a little late to find out about... |
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| One of the best things at the Auto Show. As the sign says, a 1/3rd scale model that appears to be nearly perfect... Amazing... |
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| Poor picture of a not so spectacular car. Big wheels/tires, very small greenhouse, wide rear track, low nose... Put these features on ANY car and it would look good. Nearly a 3D representation of a flashy designer's sketch (which looks good as a drawing but you may not really want to drive it or live with it...). |
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| toyota's pushrod nascar V8 cutaway... |
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| Toyota 3-wheel leaning narrow vehicle. This thing looked completely ready for production (all the glass was glass and had production type of marking on it). |
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| Volvo's concept of a self driving car's driving environment... |
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| Concept Golf... Big Wheels/Tires, small greenhouse, wide rear track... |
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| GMC's engine cutaway display (mostly high-tech pushrod motors)... Not such an interesting picture... Behind the concrete pillar is the BMW i8 (can see a little bit of it between the pillar and the engine display...), which may be the polar opposite of a GMC pickup truck... |
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| Alfa Romeo had the most evocative booth for me... Unfortunately, the new cars don't look very good compared to the old cars they had on display... |
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| Alfa has a display setup after my own heart. Consisting of old car parts and paraphernalia... |
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| The Maserati booth was right next to the Alfa booth. The best part of the Maserati was the 100 year anniversary badge on the wheels' center caps (1014 to 2014)... |
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| New NSX... Had almost no reaction to this... |
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| Put together by Frank Killam. Frank was a co-worker when I worked at GM Design Concept Center California. Frank was a clay sculptor at the time. We used to go to lunch in his first generation CRXsi which looked not that different from this Vega (black-on-black, lowered, racing seats, etc.). The CRXsi had several hundred thousand mils on it (I think Frank commuted about 80 miles each way) and all service was done at a Honda dealer... |
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| There was a display of 80's Mercedes cars/wagons by some sort of restoration business called Mercedes Motoring... It was in the downstairs aftermarket area. I don't know what they were there to do (sell cars? solicit restoration business?) & can't see how the cost of displaying at the LA Auto Show could have a good ROI... |
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| A beautiful car, it's not... |
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| The back of the car looks like it was cut off with a band-saw (built to the letter of the regulation for length...) -- absolutely flat 2-Dimensional... |
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| GT3 RS -- One of the best parts of the car... |
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| Sat in the car to take this picture... The seat fit me like a vise -- perfect fit but getting out was a challenge (very high sides on the seat...). |
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| Bad picture of the car from behind but maybe it's a good thing. The outrageously large wing is not pretty or integrated looking... (looks a little like something the aftermarket would do). This car costs over $200,000... |
