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I went on Friday and took about 800 pictures, give or take. I look forward to this every year, obviously being a car guy, but also because I work in the industry, so this is essentially my trade show!
I spent a lot of time at the Kia booth, as I have left my sales job at Hyundai and am starting back with Kia again (spent 5 years with them before) and wanted to brush up on the product.
I must say, the new Stinger GT is absolutely gorgeous. I just wish they'd had one open to sit in! The new Cadenza is really nice too; too bad nobody buys them. My Dad has a 2014 Optima Turbo and I'm really going to push him to replace it with a Stinger when he's ready. I can't wait until they arrive at my showroom so I can try one out.
I agree with the OP's thoughts on the Toyota 86. However, I was impressed with the updates to the BRZ interior. Padded and stitched knee-pads, speaker covers, and gauge cluster hood from the factory, along with the padded and stitched main dashboard trim piece. Really brings the interior upscale quite a bit. If the padded dash trim piece will fit my 2013, that's something I would love to grab in the future. I wasn't too keen on the "BRZ" stitching on the seat backs, but meh. The new steering wheel, in my personal opinion, is at least better-looking than the previous one, but I still don't jive with the fact that they added buttons. The screen in the gauge cluster looks cool too, but of course the car was off so I couldn't try it out.
Otherwise, I was obviously pretty smitten with the Bugatti (took about 50 pictures of that car alone), and was pretty excited that there was not one, but TWO F40's in the show this year. My dream car! I think they dropped the ball in not having them parked together though, because the lighting in the room where the black one was parked was AWFUL and made it hard to get good pictures of it. It would have also been a sight to see two of them parked side-by-side, as that is something I can't say I have ever seen in person before. But I understand that the Ferrari's in the exotic area are all from Remo Ferri's personal collection, whereas the black one is not (saw it at a Cars and Coffee meet in the summer and had a chance to chat with the owner).
That 250 LM was something else too. That car probably has an 8-figure price tag, and yet the F40 beside it was garnering more attention.
All in all, a great show this year!
Is the owner of that yellow FR-S on here? The one parked outside of the exotic area.
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