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NAIAS May Leave Detroit If Organizers Don't Get Cobo Expansion
The complaints about the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) staged yearly in January in Detroit fall into three categories A) it's in January B) It's in Detroit and C) Cobo Hall is just too small for the event. Well after the plan was announced to expand Cobo Hall by some 120,000 square feet, the organizers are concerned the politicians in Lansing will be politicians and fail to deliver the goods on the deal. Such fears are leading to statements from show chair Joe Serra like "We want to keep it here, but time has run out." More »
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Detroit Auto Show: Michigan Plans To Expand Cobo Convention Center
The Cobo Center, home to the Detroit Auto Show, provides approximately $600 million annually to the local economies, with much of that money coming from the show itself. With that in mind, state and local officials are working on a plan to spend $595 million to expand and renovate the center. This change would include adding an additional 120,000 square feet, which would create room for even more automakers (C'mon Tata, show us your Nanos). We're supportive of the idea, if only to create space for more surprise Chinese test drives and booth babes. [AP via MLive]
5:15 PM on Thu Jan 17 2008
By Matt Hardigree
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morning shift
• Bad News — gas prices can affect auto sales. Good News — GM upgraded by Merrill Lynch [Freep]
• Safety Cars are confusing. [crash.net]
• What? Are Cobo and Javits already taken? [Inside Bay Area]
• Burned body in car? Sad. Burned body in car in watermelon patch? Funny. [The Monitor]
• Just blow, baby — yeah, like that. I wanna taste your breath on my breathe-pipe. Only then will I know you're drunk as a skunk. [Freep]
• Well good, we feel so much better about paying higher gas prices now that we know in this quarter Exxon Mobil's made 7% higher profits over last year's record. We think we just vomited in our mouth a little. [Detroit News]
The Jalopnik Morning Shift
• Bad News — gas prices can affect auto sales. Good News — GM upgraded by Merrill Lynch [Freep]
• Safety Cars are confusing. [crash.net]
• What? Are Cobo and Javits already taken? [Inside Bay Area]
• Burned body in car? Sad. Burned body in car in watermelon patch? Funny. [The Monitor]
• Just blow, baby — yeah, like that. I wanna taste your breath on my breathe-pipe. Only then will I know you're drunk as a skunk. [Freep]
• Well good, we feel so much better about paying higher gas prices now that we know in this quarter Exxon Mobil's made 7% higher profits over last year's record. We think we just vomited in our mouth a little. [Detroit News]
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If the Navigator's A-Rockin': Necking at Cobo
We hate to be the ones to break it to you, but remember those times when your parents said they were going grocery shopping, but didn't come home for five hours? Well, we have it on good authority that they were really parked at Lookout Point, making out in the Astro. The Detroit News claims this delinquent behavior is still happening, and sent several couples to field test SUVs on display at Cobo, to see which ones are best equipped to handle a hot 'n' heavy makeout session. One woman said of the Ford Escape, "We know about parking, and this is a good car to go parking in or to the drive-in." More »
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Naked on a Challenger: Update
The woman who posed on the Challenger concept car Monday morning may have been drugged by the men who photographed her, reports a Detroit TV station. She has retained an attorney and may be considering filing a lawsuit. One of the men involved in the incident was an electrician who worked for Metro Services, a subcontractor for the Auto Show. More »
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She's Naked on a Challenger
A reader came through with a shot taken during the naked photo shoot cops in Detroit busted up at the Cobo Center this past Monday night. As you can see from the bepixled image, enlarged from postage-stamp size, she's naked and that's definitely the Challenger concept. Now we can get some sleep. [Thanks, Tim.] [UPDATE: Crap! It's a Fake!] More »
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