It was Media Day on Thursday at the Auto Show, and I loved it.

It’s Canada’s largest show, and they put on a great display for
their 40th Annual Show. 40!
Go too: Canadian International Auto Show
You have 5 more days.

In no particular order, here are some highlights.

The Lexus concept LF-CC.m Sensing a design trend.

And predicting a design trend: this shape will become popular – the shrunken SUV.

See also the all-new Buick Encore. Same shape.

Yup.

Cadillac is cleaning up in awards this year, both here and in the US. Car of the Year Everywhere.

The car colour of 2013 is Matte.

Looks cool, but too high maintenence for me. I wrote about it in this week’s column.

BMW does it best; check out their paint line ‘Frozen‘.

The beauty is not translating to my phone camera.

Toronto’s professional soccer team, the TFC shook hands with Kia.

Disco ball’d or not, still ugh.

When I applied for a media pass 3 years ago, I got denied; last year Ford got me in; and then this year, all by my big girl self.

Go see the newly re-named The Lincoln Motor Company. They reverted to the original name from 1922.

Lincoln is consistently one of the classiest booth at any show.

Doesn’t this photo look like I posed it?  It was luck.

Look, I’m on a car HAHA.

In my top 3 favourite cars – the concept Acura NSX.

But how does the driver see?

The fastest Jaguar sedan ever made, the XFR-S – 300 km/h, 550 hp, 502 lb ft of torque, 0-100 km/H in 4.6 seconds.

$100,000-ish, only 100 will be sold in the US.

This is its only Canadian appearance.

Spent much of the show like this, inside my phone.

(thanks for the photo Eric :)

Shortly after it was taken, this happened:

I’m downplaying it. Not mentioned is the semi-ciricle of journalists and their cameras directly opposite me, photoing the presentation. Hi I’m the new kid.

Infiniti and Cirque de Soleil are friends.

Ford’s Fiesta is a great first car.

 

The cel service in the MTCC is pretty good eh; 95% of my stuff went up first shot.

Peeked into behind-the-scenes.

Then back into shiny lala land, omg it smelled so good, all that new-car scent.

Weirdos drive these.

It takes 10 days to set up the show, and during that time all the carpet is protected like this.

I love when the cut it open.

This is a Land Rover.

Look for coupons in the Toronto Sun, and save $5 on admission.

And that’s it tada.

Here’s my coverage for Autonet.ca, and if I took our photo, click here to see it.

Go too! Canadian International Auto Show – on until this Sunday, February 24th – AutoShow.ca