01/11 LA AUTO SHOW, VERSION 2.0
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Published on Thu, Jan 15, 2004
By: The LACar Editorial Staff
BMW's 6-Series convertible made its world debut just days earlier
LA AUTO SHOW
LA
AUTO SHOW, VERSION 2.0
One of the little-known secrets of the LA Auto Show is that the second week is better than the first. That's because manufacturers will often display vehicles that received their world debut at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit the week before. Once they have fulfilled their obligation to debut their wares at Detroit's press preview, the car companies will bring out duplicate copies of the vehicles shown in the Motor City. Such was the case with the Volkswagen New Beetle and Corvette C5. Last year, it was the Mustang GT concept car. This year, there were a whole flurry of cars only shown during the second week in LA: The production versions of the new 2005 Mustang and Corvette, the Audiesque Ford Five Hundred, the PT Convertible, the Lexus RX400h hybrid SUV, the Mercury Mariner, the Scion tC coupe, the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, Mercury Mariner, and the BMW 645ci convertible.
The Ferrari 612 Scaglietti also made its world debut in Detroit
The 2005 Mustang showed up during the second week of the LA show
The Chrysler PT Convertible at the LA Auto Show
Ford's new Five Hundred
We discovered something else
during the second week: There were a lot of happy and excited people at the
show. The show organizers estimate that around one million people attended the
show. So, the automotive journalists can grumble all they want about the LA Auto
Show being overshadowed by the show in Detroit. The fact of the matter is: This
show is organized by the automobile dealers in Greater Los Angeles. So long as
the customers keep coming to this show in groves, don't expect much to change.
Back to the LA Auto Show report: LA Auto Show Makes A Wrong Turn.
