New PR Shots of the Camaro Convertible Concept and Beat Concept, plus thoughts on NYIAS and Hydrogen

Last week, Chevrolet released some new PR shots of two concepts that were on display at last months New York Auto Show, the Chevrolet Camaro Convertible Concept and the Chevy Beat Concept. Both of these look good, but are two completely different vehicles from each other, one being a legend reborn sports car and the other is a new small car concept.

Since last month's New York Auto Show, I have been thinking of just what was the winners and the losers of the show.

For Chevrolet, they unveiled three new concepts and while the Chevy Grove and Trax didn’t interest me much, this 2007 Chevy Beat Concept looks very interesting in two ways, one being that if its anything like a Scion xb meaning good mph with lots of upgrades for more horsepower, torque and look plus the size of the front seats could be a domestic two-door version of the 2006 Scion xB and second is it looks like the 06 Chevy WTCC Ultra Concept and that’s interesting…looks good if its good enough room for me upfront like the first Scion xB.

As for the Camaro Convertible Concept, its great as always.

Going beyond Chevrolet at the NYIAS, the widely mixed thoughts was on the new 2008 Subaru Impreza’s including the WRX. I had commented previously on the current model as just being ugly and that I had preferred the 2005 version 2-1. The 2008 version looks similar to the current Toyota Camary front end for some reason, buts its better and I wouldn’t mind considering the wagon version too.

One interesting, but not surprising model was the 2008 Jeep Liberty that similar to the Dodge Nitro, no surprise there, however unlike the Nitro, the Jeep Liberty has a new panoramic sunroofs that has a good look to it.

Now what about a loser, Ford you do so much, yet this concept for some reason just doesn’t appeal to me at all, the Ford Flex. I have no idea what exactly they were thinking, but of course some people including suburban families may find this interesting, but just no me.

Now leaving the NYIAS and the new PR shots behind, I close this Auto industry thoughts with something that I have been waiting to see for a long time in general, so many of us go to the gasoline pumps more then once a week to fill up and look up at the prices and just are shocked, it was 5 cents less at the beginning of the week. All of that got me interested and writing on hydrogen. This past week, Chevrolet drove a Sequel 300 miles on public roads without refueling in Upstate New York. I had heard that this vehicle may be in production in 5 years. The United States needs to put the structer in place for hydrogen so this can be available for consumers and in the manufacturers camp, they could build both hydrogen vehicles and gasoline-hydrogen vehicle (that runs on both gasoline and hydrogen, like E85 vehicles.) ...more here.

Well think about it, See Yeah!

Credit for the images: Check out the Chevrolet Sequel 300-Mile Zero Emissions Fuel Cell Drive Gallery, Jalopnik Beat Concept and Camaro Conv. Concept and the 2007 NYIAS at KickingTires.