NAIAS 2010

[Ultra]

Working on credentials for the show. Otto, do you want me to try and get you credentials also?

Meeting up at the Tweet up with many auoto journos on Sat 9th and Sun 10th of Jan. Look for Features on all of this soon.

[Ultra]

Just got my invite to Hyundai's press shindig.

[Ultra]

Presuming I can get the press credentials for the show I will live blog with pics my entire time there.


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[Otto Puzzell]

Wow - cool. Getting into the press previews would be cool! Those run pretty much the whole preceding week, don't they?

[Ultra]

Wow - cool. Getting into the press previews would be cool! Those run pretty much the whole preceding week, don't they?

Yes they do. Just spoke with Jean Hull frm DADA and it looks like I pulled this off

[Otto Puzzell]

You da man!

Are press passes good for general-admission days, too? The 23rd looks like my best opportunity to get to the show.

[Ultra]

I don't know anything more about press passes than I have shared. I will be learning more and sharing it as I do. I would really like to meet up with you, Otto, while I am downstate. I will be down there the 9th through the 12th. Let me know.

[DHoffmann]

You da man!

Are press passes good for general-admission days, too? The 23rd looks like my best opportunity to get to the show.

From my experience with press passes (last 3-4 years, motorshows, races, concourses etc.) a press pass allows you access at all times.

I've covered the Melbourne International Motorshow for the past 4 years, which I guess would be closest to that for size, and every year I've been on both the press day - only one - and the public days without any hassle.

As an aside, one of the greatest things about press days at motorshows is free food and hospitality. 

Have fun, even on public days a press pass is a fantastic benefit, you're allowed on stands and get given a much bigger chance to experience the show than those people behind barriers do.



EDIT: Having said that, my word isn't law over there (one day...), so it might be a good idea to call and check just to be safe.

[pnegyesi]

Back in 2005 my press pass was good for the whole duration of the Detroit Show.

And based on my 17-year-old experience, covering autoshows globally I can tell you a press pas is a very nice thing to have - whether it is in China, USA or France

[Otto Puzzell]

I don't know anything more about press passes than I have shared. I will be learning more and sharing it as I do. I would really like to meet up with you, Otto, while I am downstate. 

Me too. I'm on a tentative list for customer visits in Mexico and/or New Jersey next week. I should know by late this week what my calendar looks like.   

[MG]

Quite a bit to get revved up about at this year's show, starting with the supercharged, 546 HP Cadillac CTS-V. Wrote a little preview article today for your amusement.

God willing and the creek don't rise, Ultra will be in attendance and will provide us with commentary and photos galore from the floor.

Personally, I am mystified by the major manufacturer's obsession with horsepower. Its like the 60's all over again. Does anyone NEED a 546 hp Cadillac?     I know I don't. It seems all the attention is at the upper end of the market and the hybrid/plug-in/electric end, which, quite frankly, is still outside the mainstream of what most American consumers are interested in. I dunno. It seems a crazy time in the car business. Now would seem to be the perfect time to introduce new ideas in every day transportation, ideas that would transform the market place, much as the original Honda Civic did in 1973.

But I guess that's why I don't work in product planning for any of the auto manufacturers. Either I'm stupid or they are. Time will tell, I suppose.

[Otto Puzzell]

Merged these.

[Ultra]

Gonna see if I can get the Hyundai and Tweet-ups to lead to access but Jean Hull submitted me to the committee and I was denied.  I don't qualify as press.  

This site will grow and their opinion will change........

[MG]

Maybe you should have told them you were Dutch Mandel!   

[Ultra]

Maybe you should have told them you were Dutch Mandel!   

Running into him has gone thru my mind.........

[MG]

Quite sure he'd remember YOU, brother!   

[Otto Puzzell]

I will be on the phone, ad-hoc, with New Jersey, today and tomorrow, and working on an RFP response Through Wednesday. Later this week I may be able to peel off for a bit.

[Ultra]

Sat can work for me.

[Otto Puzzell]

I'll see if the boss OK's that. 

[Ultra]

Sat the 16th is the day I can be there. Anyone joining me?

[GRAYWOLF]

This looks like the most boring show, ever.

I always look forward to NAIAS for the concepts...Are there any cool concepts this year?

I received an email from MotorTrend that showed nothing but typical production vehicles. Thinking this might just be MT ignoring everything but what will sell the most, I popped over to carpoint.com (they usually are pretty good about covering the concepts) to find very little. The most exciting thing I saw was a rehashed Ford GT...

Is this a result of the bad international economy created by our government?

[Otto Puzzell]

Probably - let me get a few things squared away.

[MG]

Government: The greatest good for the fewest people!   

[Ultra]

I'll be driving down Saturday morn.  Aiming to be at the car show around noon.  Wanna late breakfast/early lunch?

[Otto Puzzell]

I can do 10'ish. You going straight downtown, or 'home' first?