22 Jan

Top 10 Things to peer on the 2013 Chicago Auto Show

The 2013 Chicago Auto Show won’t were terribly exciting from a brand new product standpoint, but there’s still lots of sheetmetal to work out, especially in case you weren’t at L. a. or Detroit. Here’s our list of the head 10 stuff you should check up on while you visit the show in the course of the public days:

1. 2014 Chevrolet Corvette and Ford Atlas Concept
The two Detroit auto show stars are here and both are worth sorting out within the flesh, particularly the pointy-looking Vette.

2. Chrysler’s Stand
Once again, Chrysler has taken up an incredible chunk of the South Hall and is providing brief drives in a few of its freshest metal in addition to the obligatory short off-road course for Jeep. You can even get your retina slightly seared by the ultra-purple Dodge Challenger SRT8 Core.

3. Ram ProMaster
While you’re at Chrysler, inspect the brand new Ram ProMaster. It may possibly not be pretty and it certainly isn’t a sports car, but, presuming they’re unlocked for the general public, you may spend a couple of minutes messing around with its trick rear doors (anyone with an engineering background will appreciate the hinge design) and pre-teen boys will enjoy sitting within the driver’s seat pretending to be bus drivers.

4. Kia Forte Hatchback and Cross GT Concept
Kia’s two show debuts are both are cool of their own way. Unfortunately, the automaker only has one Forte Hatchback on display and also you can’t get in and fiddle with it just yet, however the car continues to be worth sorting out. While you’re there, it’s also possible to take a gander on the Superman Kia Optima and the cut-out Hamstars.

5. Ford’s Stand
Though Ford didn’t have anything particularly significant to reveal — limiting its new hardware to the Fiesta ST RallyCross Car and the focal point TrackSTer — there’s still some fun available on the Blue Oval’s large stand. Two highlights include the ST Simulator and the truck display. The ST Simulator, predictably, simulates the experience of driving a focal point ST or Fiesta ST while the truck display has some police and fire vehicles that’ll certainly attract the long run cops and firefighters, and there’s even an F-Series rigged up as a cherry picker.

6. Nissan’s Stand
There are four Nissans in particularly to observe, and you’ll easily swing by in your way from Ford and Chrysler. The four are the Nismo Juke (which, by virtue of being more sporty, is less ugly), the Nismo 370Z, 2014 GT-R Track that dispenses with the rear seats, and the diminutive Nissan NV200 commercial van.

7. Corvettes and Camaros
Aside from the whole examples you’ll find on the Chevrolet stand, there’s a copious amount of Bowtie sports cars of all eras to be present in the back of the South Hall behind the Toyota Test Track. Local show-goers will particularly appreciate the red-and-black Blackhawks Camaro, though fans of different Original Six NHL teams must resist the urge to interact in vandalism.

8. Supercar Garage
Nestled behind the North Hall, near the Chevrolet stand, is what the show calls the “Supercar Garage,” sponsored, curiously enough, by Comcast Business Class. Contents, include all kinds of exotica including a black Lamborghini Aventador, Rolls-Royce Ghost and several other Aston Martins.

9. Classic Car Club
Also nestled behind the Toyota Test Track is the Classic Car Club, which houses a couple of half-dozen oddball classics, one of the most notable of that is the tragically short lived mid-engine AMC AMX/3. Right next to this display, in a pen shared with Camaros and Corvettes, is a handful of pre-war cars, including a 1930 Model 733 Packard Roadster and a 1932 Chrysler Imperial.

10. Miscellaneous Automobilia
Sprinkled in the course of the convention center are various unique cars just like the Mad Max-looking “Defiance” Dodge Charger, Turbo Chevrolet Camaro, “Walking Dead” Elantra Coupe, and others. One could examine them all here in our related WOT post.