A James Bond Car

The company logo is printed in the centre of the swirl, but it gets whitewashed out through a camera lens.

From any angle.


That’s a big oops.

 

My First Detroit Auto Show #NAIAS

I’ve been to lots of other auto shows, but never here. I arrived Sunday afternoon and that evening, Infiniti took me to lovely dinner at this very old mansion.

It’s a big year for Infiniti – not only did they have a world-wide reveal of a gorgeous new sedan, but they re-named their entire line of vehicles.  Everything now starts with a Q.  I wrote about it on Autonet – Infiniti adds a Q

Introducing the all-new 2014 Q50 – coming this summer.

http://www.autonet.ca/auto-news/auto-shows/2013/01/14/infinitis-shapely-future/

It boasts a world’s first technology, the ‘Infiniti Direct Adaptive Steering’, which transmits the driver’s intentions to the wheels faster than a mechanical system can. I’d like to try that.  Read more on Autonet.ca

The show was SO FUN.

Non-car nerds: NAIAS – North American International Auto Show. It’s the largest, most important show of the year. You reveal and debut your new car here.

Joe is my editor, I’ve introduced you before.

His texts are grey, mine are green.  Haha.

An auto show is like this super-clean fantastical land, filled with the finest machines in existence and that smells so good.

Nissan unveiled their new concept car – the Resonance.

Slick eh. The whole roof is a window, and I’m pretty sure the sideview mirrors are cameras.

I have a TON of fantastic car photos, I’ll blog them over the next few weeks.

The Wi-Fi at the show looked like this.

Where I uploaded from, in the media room.

The reaction to me seems to be polarizing – love or hate, no in-between.  I think it’s a mix of…. I’m from the blog and new media world, not a trained journalist; and I have a national weekly auto column, where I can write about whatever I want; but I couldn’t name all an engine’s parts, and I don’t know when the last auto manufacturing facility was built in North America.  But I never pretended I could. Besides, boring.

I’ve always said: I like cars, but I love driving.  Do I ever love driving.  And I’m pretty good at it.

My view on the flight home.

Then at 9pm I hit the wall, done.

Look for some great show photos, over the next few weeks.

 

 

I'm in Detroit at the NAIAS Auto Show

It’s NAIAS – the North American International Auto Show. Biggest auto show of the year.

I’m travelling with Infiniti & Nissan, representing Sun Media.

This isn’t at all my first auto show, but definitely my most official.

Usually it’s just me and my blog who cares, but not this time.

Here’s my schedule:

Monday

7:15      North American ‘Car of the Year’
9:45      Infiniti
1:50      Honda

Tuesday

8:10      Nissan
10:40     Acura

(I’m doing this as much for my own reference, as for yours)

Those are the time slots of the “big reveals“, when the company unveils their new 2014 models. Apparently, the reveals here are huge. At other shows, they pull off the silk and tada. Here in Detorit, I’ve heard of a herd of cattle running alongside a car, a pickup dropped from two stories up, like that.

All right, game ON. I really liked my column last week (Tip the Valet twice), and this coming week (Let’s Go Wardriving), so I feel good about that. I keep reminding myself I already know how to do this all, this is just a bit more pressure is all.

Find me fastest on Twitter @KeriBlog, I’ll update here when I can, home Tuesday night.

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Here’s some Nissan car’s I’ve had:

The Nissan Rogue
The Rogue was Refreshing

The Nissan Juke
It Bubbles Down the Road

The Nissan Titan
Knew I’d Love Driving a Pickup Truck

The G37 Infiniti
The G37 Has a great Growl

All Nissan posts

All Infiniti posts

Update:

I kept my room nice and hot the whole time.