I'm back with my take on the 2007 Detroit Autoshow

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Imagen seeing this car in your rearview mirror.

Its been a busy, but short off-season for me, but I am thrilled that its over and NASCAR has already started with preseason testing and the 24 hours of Daytona is at the end of the month.

With all that said, what about the auto industry, the 2007 Barrett-Jackson is only 6 days away, but more importantly, the biggest autoshow in the United States has just wrapped up with its press-day, so what went down, what were the winners of the 2007 Detroit Autoshow.

First was the Concepts:
As like last year when Chevrolet debuted there hot and stunning Camaro concept, they were not to be out down this year with there debut of the Camaro Convertible concept. Good job to Chevrolet, of course it would have been better to have never gotten rid of the camaro in 2002 in first place, but it looks good.

I really didn't know what to think of Ford's Airstream Concept, interesting people mover, not something I would consider at this day and time, but in the future it could be a hit.

The Mitsubishi Prototype X, I remember Mitsubishi coming out with something like this a year or two ago, but this concept I really like, the styling is good and looks a little like the the new lancer. It should be an all-wheel drive monster. The jury is still out on the Ford Interceptor, now doesn't that look something like a chrysler? Now those were only a couple of the many concepts debuted at this years autoshow, impressed.

There was one other concept that was debuted at the LA autoshow that impressed me as well and got me thinking, I'm talking about the BMW Hydrogen 7 Prototype, Hydrogen in the next 10 years could be a second fuel to gasoline. Going along with hydrogen theme, the idea of a car that runs on both hydrogen and gasoline would be change, just think about, a consumer purchases a hydrogen vehicle that also runs on gasoline, stores hydrogen at home like Honda's Phill with natural gas, fills up the hydrogen tank for shorter trips and for the longer family trips, they fill up with gasoline. Now thats the best of both worlds, hydrogen for the daily commute to work and gasoline for the longer trips, think about, commutes are getting longer everyday.

Finally, the Mazda Ryuga, another great looking concept that will most likely never make it into productions. It doesn't make a difference whether people like these concepts or not, Mazda is just showing us what will never be, just like Ford with some of there concepts.

On the otherside is Production cars:
This is were things get really interesting, vehicles consumers can buy and drive. Interesting crop with a couple of redesigns that lets face it were much needed.

There were a couple that caught my eye, the 2008 Cadillac CTS, I have always liked the style of a Cadillac and this one is nice, the grill work was spot on and the lines all the way back hits the spot just right. You can't say that about to many vehicles. Some others were the 2008 Lexus IS-F has the upgrading styling that packs 400 horsepower under your foot. Rolls-Royce creates there Phantom in a Drophead Coupe, celeberty with be inline for one of these.

Some of these vehicles we have seen before and well there there. Not to jump on Fords case, but finally they are working on the Ford Focus, but I like the eupo look better, not this and didn't they just come out with the Five Hundred, there was no need to change. That was just a tip of the iceburg of what this show had to offer.

Final Thoughts:
What a selection and a big list, I have got to wonder what is next around the corner from these automakers. The hit of the show for the Concepts was for the second year in a row was the Chevrolet Camaro Convertible Concept and for the production vehicles, the 2008 Cadillac CTS, both were great to look at.

I end this piece with this phrase from Autoblog.com "We came, we saw, we covered, we're done!", and thats that. What's Next.

Looking for coverage, Photos, heres a couple of sites I visit regularly:
- Autoblog.com
- Cars.com
- Kicking Cars Blog on Cars.com
- Babez.de