In the past couple of years, it seems as though the LA Auto Show has been marching to a different beat; one far less exciting than that of past shows, with far less innovation and a little more green.
Not that this is a bad thing for those actually questing for their new rides, but for those who like seeing concept cars and prototypes, such as myself, it is a little disappointing. Even Cadillac, who had me going with its Lambo door vehicle, surprised me with a small, silly looking future-car. When I think Cadillac, I think long, big, powerful, not "tin-bin". And that's what came to mind.
EQUALS
(and the Fiat 500 has far more charm and charisma...)
So critical, I know. It's not like I even know that much at all, I just like fast-looking batmobiles.
Mazda, however, pulled through with its concept car. It looked sharp, mean, with well defined edges and curves in all the right places -- FAST.
Take a gander!
I took a faux-joy ride in a sexy flat black AMG... and my facial expression tells all. Nowhere near comfortable, it ain't got anything on my '84 300sd's fine leather bucket seats, and the worst part was that my head was almost sticking out of the damn car, and my legs where squished. I'm sure there are a million features to make the ride less of a stress-factor, but out of the twelve thousand gadgets and buttons, I could not seem to locate the "make-seat-drivable" button, which would hypothetically allow one to ADJUST the seat and thus DRIVE.... without running the risk of partial decapitation by car.
Stay tunned for REAL cars... last Pomona swap meet of 2010!!!
