I went this afternoon. And, would you believe, I actually took pics -- got a couple of disposable cameras and figured let's see what happens. Well, what happened was they're the worst pics you can imagine. Really -- they suck totally. I'm so embarrassed.
Maybe some of them will turn out to be worth putting on here. I'll see what I can do.
Good stuff, large crowd but not a crush, everybody friendly and in a good mood like I guess they usually are at car shows, and maybe the widest range of people I've ever seen anywhere at anything -- ages, genders, ethnicities, apparent economic levels -- everything and everybody.
The Honda and Acura exhibits (which were adjacent) attracted a good amount of people and they seemed to really like what they saw, although the area wasn't quite as active as some others. For example, Mini was hopping a bit more. But it's not like Honda and Acura were hurting. The Porsches, for example, were attracting a little
less attention, and the Maybach was getting
a lot less attention. :donno:
The new RL was featured prominently -- the prototype was up on one of those elevated rotating platforms. But people seemed much more interested in the other Acuras -- especially the TL and the TSX, and to some extent the NSX too. I was surprised that the RL wasn't more mobbed, but on second thought I wasn't. I never cared a hoot about the RL, until I saw the hype lately about the new RL -- and then I got curious about it too, although in truth it's nowhere close to a car that I'd be interested in. Also, you couldn't go right up to it or get in it. Anyway, the new RL does have some very interesting technology in it, and I think if more people knew about that they would have been more interested in the car. IMO Acura made a mistake in this exhibit by having a couple of current RL's displayed -- if you didn't go looking for the new RL, you could easily have thought those current RL's were the only RL's there.
About the NSX not getting more attention, maybe that was just an aberration of the time while I was there (in fact everything I saw could have been an aberration), maybe part of it was that the car seemed to be "debadged" -- you couldn't tell what it was unless you just knew, or if you took the trouble to look at the sticker. Still, it's a sharp car, and you hardly ever see one. I would have expected it to get a lot more attention.
They had the Scions there, including the tC which unfortunately you couldn't go into either. It looked nice, but maybe a little less impressive than what you'd expect from prior pics -- smaller and less substantial. (We've had a couple of those pics on this site.)
One of the most interesting designs, I thought, was the Chevy Nomad. Some of my pics of the car came out not too bad, but until I get something done with those, how about this:
http://www.canadiandriver.com/news/040104-2.htm
BTW if you go, be sure to have lots of $$$$ for parking.
Would you believe $45?
