North American International Auto Show

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NAIAS 2005, near the Audi exhibit.

The North American International Auto Show (previously called the Detroit Auto Show and often abbreviated NAIAS) is an annual auto show held in Detroit, Michigan.

History

The first auto show was held in Detroit in 1907 at Beller's Beer Garden at Riverside Park and since then annually except 1943-1952. It was renamed the North American International Auto Show in 1989. Since 1961, it has been held at Cobo Center where it occupies 1 million square feet (93,000 m²) of floor space. The show is particularly important because the Metro Detroit area is the location of the headquarters of the Big Three American automakers, Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors.

The show

The show begins with press preview days, industry preview days and a charity preview event. The charity preview raises money for local children's charities. In 2004 and 2005, the charity preview attracted 17,500 people at $400 a ticket and raised $7 million in total. 2006 was the sixth consecutive year the charity preview event raised over $6 million. 35,711 tickets were sold for the industry preview representing people from 24 countries in 2005 and 6,897 credentialed press from 63 countries. Over 800,000 attended during the days the show was open to the general public in 2004. It is estimated that the show generates a revenue of over $500 million to the local economy.

The NAIAS was long the only auto show in the United States sanctioned by the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles, however since 2006 the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show was recognized and, starting in 2007, the Chicago Auto Show was as well.

2009

The 2009 show will run from January 11 through January 25. [1]

  • January 11-13 — Press days
  • January 14-15 — Industry days
  • January 16 — Charity preview
  • January 17-25 — Open to the public

2008

The 2008 show ran from January 13 through January 27.

  • January 13-15 — Press days
  • January 16-17 — Industry days
  • January 18 — Charity preview
  • January 19-27 — Open to the public

Car and truck of the year award

The 2008 Chevrolet Malibu and Mazda CX-9 were selected to receive the show's North American Car and Truck of the Year awards.[2]

Production car introductions

Concept car introductions

2007

The 2007 show was held from January 7 through January 21.

  • January 7-9 — Press days
  • January 10-11 — Industry days
  • January 12 — Charity preview
  • January 13-21 — Open to the public

Car and truck of the year award

The Saturn Aura and Chevrolet Silverado were selected to receive the North American Car and Truck of the Year awards.[1]

Production car introductions

Concept car introductions

GM also displayed five "global" concept cars for the first time in North America: Chevrolet T2X, Chevrolet WTCC, Holden Efijy, Opel Antara GTC, and Saab Aero-X.

2006

2007 Hummer H3

The 2006 show was held from January 8 through January 22.

  • January 8-10 — Press days
  • January 11-12 — Industry days
  • January 13 — Charity preview
  • January 14-22 — Open to the public


Production car introductions

Concept car introductions


2005

The 2005 show saw the following important introductions:

Production car introductions

Concept car introductions

2001

Concept car introductions

The following concept cars were shown:


1992

Production car introductions

The following production vehicles debuted at the 1992 show:

Concept car introductions

The following concept cars were shown:

1989

The Detroit Auto Show was renamed to the North American International Auto Show for 1989, as Lexus and Infiniti debuted. The show opened on January 11, with press previews and introductions for the first two days.

Introductions:

See also

References

  1. ^ NORTH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW REVEALS 2009 DATES AND REVIEWS NAIAS 2008
  2. ^ Peter Valdes-Dapena (2008-01-14). "Chevrolet Malibu wins Car of the Year". CNN. Retrieved 2008-09-14.

External links

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