2015 Detroit auto show a record-setter
This year’s North American International Auto Show is another one for the record books when it comes to attendance. After setting a high last year for the last 11 years this year’s show 808,775 visitors helped kick that record to the curb. Was it milder weather or a rebounding economy? Could it be the dozen new displays or 55 new car and truck reveals? Was it the fact that the average car is 11 years old and people are ready to shop? Does anyone really care? What matters is whether show-goers find their way to real, car-selling showrooms after the show. Excerpt: “The automotive industry is really resurging right now and so they brought the best of the best,” says Scott LaRiche, chairman of the 2015 show. “Not only great displays and new things. It makes us very proud of the fact that the manufacturers feel that it’s important to bring that kind of firepower to Detroit.” Read more here
This year’s North American International Auto Show is another one for the record books when it comes to attendance. After setting a high last year for the last 11 years this year’s show 808,775 visitors helped kick that record to the curb.
Was it milder weather or a rebounding economy? Could it be the dozen new displays or 55 new car and truck reveals? Was it the fact that the average car is 11 years old and people are ready to shop?
Does anyone really care? What matters is whether show-goers find their way to real, car-selling showrooms after the show.
Excerpt:
“The automotive industry is really resurging right now and so they brought the best of the best,” says Scott LaRiche, chairman of the 2015 show. “Not only great displays and new things. It makes us very proud of the fact that the manufacturers feel that it’s important to bring that kind of firepower to Detroit.”
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