A couple months after the fact, but my pics from the North American International Auto Show have been uploaded.

In browsing my server stats, I noticed a number of hits referred by GM’s in-house FastLane blog, where Bob Lutz et. al. post. Lo and behold, Tom Wilkinson from the GM Design Center linked to my post on Laura and I’s annual jaunt to the NAIAS as a reference to the popularity of the [...]

Laura and I visited the North American International Auto Show for the third year running yesterday.  Not surprisingly, there were huge crowds surrounding the Camaro and Challenger concepts.
Pics are uploaded to:

All Pics
Camaro Concept Pics
Challenger Concept Pics

BMW Thailand Paper Models
By way of BMW Thailand comes a nice selection of simple paper models. Not exactly Prototyp level, but a nice time waster.

While driving around Loveland recently, I passed a car which required double and triple takes: a black Mazda Protege5 with every badge removed and replaced with Lexus emblems. The driver had a smug air of satisfaction, just knowing that his ruse brings in the ladies.
Yeah, I definitely need a camera phone for such occasions.

After several weeks of scouring AutoTrader.com and cars.com, Laura’s settled on a new set of wheels:

A 2003 MINI Cooper S with 24K miles, and the Sport, Premium, and Cold Weather packages from a lady in Blue Ash. Also, as Mom noted, it has “suspenders.”
This came after she asked me to help her [...]

John DeLorean dies at 80 - Autoblog - www.autoblog.com
The headline says it all, one of the original creators of the muscle car is gone.
I can still remember the anticipation and excitement as a youngster of 4 or 5, and going to see the DeLorean that our family doctor (who also delivered me, was a car [...]

Laura and I made our second annual trip to the North American Int’l Auto Show yesterday.

Audi’s grille designer is apparently on a mission to out-Bangle BMW. Either that, or channeling the Edsel.

The Ford GT cut in half was way cool, albeit hard to photograph.

The “Lincoln F-150″ was a rather amusing exercise in badge [...]