The Hanna Montana tour.

Seeing as apparently every car built after 1970 is ugly and badly proportioned, yes.

Ok, I'm not that cynical. But this year's concepts have all been lackluster, even the Fisker Karma and its baleen grille and the Cadillac CTS Coupe when viewed from behind.

Wow... you came off like Howard Dean there... You should have ended that with "RAAAAH!"

Will there a be a Jalopnik booth at the Chicago show? or will us chiagoians have to hunt you all down?

I think Detroit is definitely more burned out than I am.

Wait, that wasn't the question. How about covering police auctions? Seems like the opposite end of the spectrum.

Racing. Any sort of racing is better than looking at cars standing still, especially cars that will likely never be put into production. You should forgo all of the other auto shows and just go to the AutoSport International show in the UK next year. Now THAT would be interesting to get a sneak peek into the next generation of racing technology which would be four generations ahead of what is the "latest thing" at the regular auto shows. You missed it this past weekend because you were all in Detroit having all that "fun".

You guys missed out, you could have been covering the Adult Video Convention in Vegas I see your sister site all over it.

FYI, this was the lineup at the Autosport show this past weekend. Would you rather have seen these guys or Dr.Z getting propositioned by Kim Cattrell?!

Saturday
David Coulthard (F1)
Jenson Button (F1)
Mark Webber (F1)
Allan McNish (LeMans/ALMS)
Andy Priaulx (WTCC)
Marcus Gronholm (WRC)

Sunday
Allan McNish (LeMans/ALMS)
Andy Priaulx (WTCC)
Mark Blundell (ex-F1 ITV)
Bruno Senna (GP2)
Jason Plato (BTCC)
Matt Neal (BTCC)

Do it!!!!

I'm burnt out on Detroit.

Oh, you meant on autoshow coverage. I was referring more to just living here in general.

Note to self, home purchase is not always a good idea.

RV shows. I'm semi-serious, I think it might be a cool, tangential subject for this crowd. Most people seem to enjoy road trips, traveling, and cutting-edge mobile environments, all of which are epitomized in the US by the RV business.

@combat chuck: yeah, i like the oddball stuff like that. murilee has touched on SF city tow auctions before - how about a full-on feature on that?
spending a day with any of the following for a fresh perspective:
UPS/FedEx delivery guy;
service tech at dealership;
salesman at new car dealership;
salesman at sleazy used car dealership;
taxi/limo/car service driver;
snow plow truck;
highway patrol;
etc.

No! Never! Keep the swollen crossovers, big heavy hybrids (to keep the idea of the 3-ton pickup an ethical one) and identikit concept cars coming.

Gives us all something to despair at.

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@rlj676: at least there are plenty cheaper ones around you!

World of wheels! Check out the A+ linup of celebs at the Norlens show.

"Mater" and Jason Earles from Hanna Montana? Count me in!

Detroit Auto Show Summary:

- Turd-shaped crossover
- Eco-friendly SUV
- CTS Coupe*
- Another turd-shaped crossover
- Van with hood scoop
- Pointless luxury hybrid
- ZR-1 Vette*
- Turd-shaped Electric crossover
- A 4-door, 4-passenger coupe?
- Yet another turd-shaped crossover
- Mazda Furai*
- Cheap luxury car knockoff
- Mach 5 (wtf?)
- Truck with cattle
- R8 V12*
- Premium luxury turd-shaped crossover
- Horrible pickup crossover

* = Actually worth looking at

Honestly, is it that much worse than watching a bald Britney chase you with an umbrella?

I'm thinking you guys should cover some good road trips...like places to go mountain biking, camping, weirdest fishing town, unique car dealerships.

Let the creative juices flow...

..yeah. I'm a bit burned out, and a bit bummed. The only new reveal that we didn't already know about was the CTS, and GM was surprised that we didn't know.

Internet killed the auto show star.

You could cover a Jalopnik hosted Summer BBQ for the people of the Jalop-Nation!

...but no one would be reading it 'cause we'd all be there!

Cover the increasing buying-up of roads built with taxpayer money by private corporations looking to take more of the taxpayers' money through exhorbitant tolls.

Sorry...been reading too much of Pat Bedard's column.

@WesR: Great idea.

I also would like to see more road tests. More auto esoterica - old ads, weird -aminos and -cheros, DAFs, FAFs, ZAZ, ZIL, Trabant, et cetera. Bring on the weird.

Maybe a running series on car companies' troubles...you could call it a Deathwatch or something. I wonder if anyone's done that.

"...all the Detroit Auto Show coverage you can stand!"

I think you guys already summed it up. Things got incredibly boring after the ZR1 reveal.

I second the racing suggestion above. Maybe pick a couple of the best races of the season, i.e. Rolex 24 of Daytona, any ALMS, pack your bags, and go breathe some high octane exhaust.

More tits!

Summer Glau.

@PeteJayhawk: A report from an annual shareholders' meeting or two would be nice :)

Covering various types of auto events would be great as well (Pebble Beach, Corvettes at Carlisle, etc.).

@PeteJayhawk:

I don't think anyone on the Jalop staff is a big enough dousche to relish/hope for increased struggles for so many people. Farago on the other hand, is plenty big enough dousche to do just that.

There's very little "truth" to be found at that place.

@Spence:
I second this. "Everyone" loves some T&A.

How about covering some of the better hot rod shows out there?

@bzr: Amen, robble robble.

How about just re-tagging all "Auto Show" posts as "Auto Design Deathwatch."

Do a Design School Confidential. Send Leiberman or Johnson to ArtCenter on a Jalopreader funded scholarship. See if they can find out why car designers are trained to draw everything exactly the same way. Wind-tunnel glass turds with 24" wheels are cool once. Once.

@rlj676: That's a bit harsh. I really don't think Farago hopes for more issues, he's just pointing at the inevitable fall.

The Goodwood Revival. It's the greatest automotive event in the world today and largely ignored by the US press.

@Spence: Yeah, they're great!!

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@POLAR: Naah. I prefer the Booby

You should cover more Rallye Racing!!! And entries about car-nuts/ gearheads/ weirdos-like-us, are also great.

@Dr.Danger: what the hell?
I ment Boobies

You should do in Behind the Music style exposé of Robosaurus

@Dr.Danger: YEAH! I like the brown ones...

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i feel like i have seen the official reveal for the same car over and over. b-land.

Well, If Detroit press days are like the L.A. show press days, there is plenty of free booze and food floating around. Tell them to quit whining or next year they will have to cover it while the public is there!

@POLAR: Am I the only wierdo who wants a Jalop-B-Q?

Let's just say that if this post's title had begun with "Detroit Auto Show," I wouldn't have read it and wouldn't be commenting.

Lets see, each of the automakers have unveiled an SUV Sedan/Coupe like concept (BMW, Toyota, Chrysler, Lincoln, Ford, to name a few) and precious little else. This seems to be a waste of a major international show.... Oh yea, and 2 new full size pickup trucks. Isn't there anything original being presented here?

@POLAR: Definitely not.

@POLAR: No. Seconded.

I'm willing to fly transatlantic for a decent steak...

@Rust-MyEnemy: Oh, thirded then, damnit

@POLAR:
I'd be in...what about a car show? There'd have to be east, central, and west coast editions though, no?

@Rust-MyEnemy: Yours' are all mad right?

See what I did there?

@Al Navarro: Probably. I wouldn't go to one if it wasn't in CA/AZ/NV, and I suppose I'm not the only one. So yeah, multiple doo-daddies.

@skaz:

I'm pretty sure his "deathwatch" is not a sad series for him to do. Everything I read over there was so full of anti-big 3 bias it was sad.

Further, he runs the place like a fascist and bans for disagreeing with him under the guise that it was a "flame". That's what leads to (nearly) everyone on that site agreeing, coincidentally, with all of his articles, etc.

Like I said, there's very little "truth" to be had.

@skaz:
I think I could help whip up a northeast jimmy jam. Oh, I'll be at Carlisle again this year..May 17, along with many of my Se7en brothers.

@rlj676: I'm not going to say that I'm 100% for his policies, but I believe you're looking at him in a really strange light.

I highly doubt that any US citizens would wi