Editorial

All this talk about the New York Auto Show being “boring,” what’s up with that?  If there’s new stuff, I’m not bored.  There’s a shortage of dream cars, perhaps, but that’s been chronic in the industry the past few years.  What is interesting is that this trend has been offset in recent years by a tendency to actually build the dream cars.  So really, I don’t have a problem with that.  The Big Apple has always been a show that’s more about what’s actually going to happen, rather than dreams, and this year New York saw North American and world debuts of several new vehicles that’ll be hitting the streets in 2010 and 2011, not to mention the A-Team’s van, which I hung out in for a while.  Isn’t that more exciting than pie-in-the-sky dream cars?
Well, maybe not, some folks who call themselves car people are no doubt whining.  After all, it’s just a lot of hybrids and crossover vehicles, right?  Well, okay, there were station wagons, too, which are arguably more exciting than crossovers.  But I’m not going to argue semantics–my point is this:  I enjoy these shows whether there are concept cars or not.  Besides, New York showed me that there are some pretty cool things that are about to arrive for real. More >