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More than a million expected at 2013 show
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he nation’s largest auto show is upon us. The 105th edition of the Chicago Auto Show opens to the public at 10 a.m. Feb. 9 and closes at 8 p.m. Feb. 18 at McCormick Place. Of the four major auto shows in the United States, the CAS annually attracts more than one million visitors. The Los Angeles show is first, the New York show last and Detroit has the greatest number of worldwide new vehicle introductions, but Chicago’s is the largest. “It also is the show most geared toward the consumer, which is why Chicago is pretty well known as the consumer show,” said David Sloan, president of the Chicago Auto Trade Association and general manager of the CAS. Sloan said the Chicago show, which costs CATA about $5 million each year to put on, is where potential customers come to kick the tires, get into vehicles on display and are serious about making a purchase. Benefitting the most are the 400-plus new car dealers who are members of CATA, the sponsoring agency. “The dealers see a substantial uptick in potential customers to their dealerships and a big increase in sales,” Sloan noted. “We get reports that after the show ends the dealers are so busy they cannot keep up with customers coming into their dealerships.” More than 1,000 vehicles from roughly 40 automakers will be on display during the 10 days of the event. Hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Feb. 9-17 and 10 a.m. to 8
The 8.4-liter, 640-horse-power, SRT Viper V10 will be on display at the Chicago Auto Show. Photo provided
REVIEWS Jerry Kuyper p.m. Feb. 18. Daily tickets are $12 for adults, $6 for seniors ages 62 and older, $6 for children ages 7 to 12. Children 6 years old or younger get in free when they are accompanied by a paying adult. Weekday discount coupons ($6 off regular adult admission) are available at area new-car dealers who are CATA members. Participating banks also mail the discount tickets to their account holders. School and group discounts are available. Certain days should be kept in mind by potential patrons. Tuesday is women’s day. Women are admitted for $6. Manufacturers will present programs oriented toward women on the purchase and lease of cars and maintenance. Wednesday through Friday are food drive days. Patrons who bring three cans of food will receive a coupon for $6 admission. Food is donated to A Safe Haven Foundation. Friday is Telemundo Hispanic Day. For information, visit www. telemundochicago.com. For additional ticket information, visit www.drivechicago.com. Sloan noted the ticket pricing is attractive to making the show an affordable family event. Food and beverage stands dot the show complex.
The show is on one floor of McCormick Place South which covers 1.2 million square feet of exhibition space. “What an advantage Chicago has over other shows,” Sloan said. “The show is on one gigantic floor and it is simply a matter of making your way through more than one million square feet of displays. We have by far the biggest automotive exhibition hall in the country and it really shows off the cars well. We do everything we can to put every last person we can in there.” The show features multiple world and North American introductions, a comprehensive range of domestic and imported passenger cars and trucks, sport utility vehicles and experimental or concept cars. One of the world introductions is the 2014 Tundra pickup truck from Toyota. “Why Chicago?” Toyota’s Midwest public relations manager Curt McAllister rhetorically asked. “It’s arguably the largest consumer auto show in the country and the CAS has a history of terrific truck reveals. We introduced the 2010 MY Tundra in Chicago back in 2009.” “We will be making a big Ram announcement as well as bringing a new Chrysler and Mopar model to the show,” Chrysler Group publi-
cist Wendy Orthman said. For the Chicago show, CG will introduce the 2013 Viper SRT, 2014 Fiat 500L, 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee and (new) Compass. “They will be exciting editions to the CAS floor,” she said. Automotive media and the public can watch a live webcast of the unveiling of the first new product under the Ram commercial brand at the Chicago show. The unveiling is via live satellite feed from McCormick Place beginning Feb. 7. For information, visit http://host4video.com/cas13/ram/. Among the 75 vehicles in Ford’s display area will be the Atlas, which shows what the F-Series pickup trucks will look like in future years. Ford also will display the new Transit Connect Wagon, redesigned Transit Connect city van and the Transit, a replacement commercial van for the E-Series. According to Fred Ligouri of General Motors, on Chevrolet’s 64,500-square-foot-display will be the 2014 Corvette, 2014 Silverado, 2014 Impala, Hot Wheels Camaro, 1967 Hot Wheels Camaro concept, and the Malibu Turbo Performance Concept.
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• Mopar builds a one-of-a-kind auto for the Chicago Auto Show. • Chrystler Group introduces Mopar’s Dodge Dart. • Black-tie event kicks off the 2013 show. Page E2 • A 2013 Toyota RAV4 will be given away this year. • Test tracks to take visitors on wild rides. Page E7 • Cadillac polishes its awardwinning ATS for display at the show. Page E9
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Mopar builds one-of-kind auto for show The NORTHWEST HERALD CHICAGO – Visitors to the Feb. 9-18 Chicago Auto Show will not want to miss Chrysler Group’s Mopar ’13 limited-edition vehicle. “This vehicle is the perfect canvas for personalization and customization,” said Mopar’s president and chief executive officer Pietro Gorlier. “We could not wait to get our hands on it and give it the Mopar treatment.” Mopar is Chrysler Group’s service, parts and customer-care brand. The Mopar ’13 limited-edition vehicle follows the Mopar ’10 Dodge Challenger, Mopar ’11 Dodge Charger and Mopar ’12 Chrysler 300. Features introduced by Mopar include: Vehicle-information apps: Smartphone vehicle-information applications, a new channel of communication with consumers.
Electronic owner manuals: Traditional owner manuals in a DVD and brief user-guide format. Another first was registered when the complete vehicle information kits came out in Spanish. Wi-Fi: The ability to make the vehicle a wireless hot spot. Wireless charging: In-vehicle wireless charging for portable devices. Electronic Vehicle Tracking System: Vehicle tracking device that sends owner a text when vehicle is driven too fast or too far based on pre-set parameters. 2011 Mopar Challenger Drag Pak: A 500-plus cubic-inch V10 drag race package car. Brand-specific customer care telephone lines: Sunday service hours for customers. WiTECH: Vehicle diagnosis and software updates leveraging off-the-shelf personal computers and a dedicated wireless tool network.
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Visitors to the Feb. 9-18 Chicago Auto Show can gawk at a vehicle designed by Mopar for the annual event.
Chrysler Group introduces Mopar’s Dodge Dart The NORTHWEST HERALD A Dodge Dart outfitted by Mopar also will be at the Chicago Auto Show. Eventually, 500 of these Mopar Darts will be outfitted with select parts and accessories and built at Chrysler’s assembly plant in Belvidere. Performance upgrades include lowered sport suspension, revised steering calibration, sport-tuned exhaust, ground-effects kit and premium brake kit with slotted rotors. Trim will include a custom leather Mopar driver’s seat. There also will be the industry’s first in-car wireless charging for smartphones. With the creation of the Chrysler Group and Fiat SpA partnership, Mopar is extending its global reach, integrating service, parts and customer-care operations in order to enhance dealer and customer support worldwide. Combined with Fiat SpA, Mopar’s global portfolio includes more than 500,000 parts and accessories that are distributed in more than 130 countries. Mopar is the source for all genuine parts and accessories for Chrysler Group and Fiat SpA brands. Mopar parts are unique in that they are engineered with the same teams that create factory-authorized vehicle specifications for Chrysler Group and Fiat SpA vehicles, a direct connection that no other aftermarket parts company provides. A complete list of Mopar accessories and performance parts is available at www.mopar.com. Mopar is a contraction of the words MOtor and PARts. The name was trademarked for an antifreeze product in 1937. Mopar made its mark in the 1960s during the the muscle car era. That is when Chrysler Corp. built race-ready Dodge and Plymouth “package cars” equipped with special high-performance parts.
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A Dodge Dart with the Mopar treatment will be on display at the Chicago Auto Show.
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Two cars, the 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe (left) or the 2013 Buick Encore, will be raffled off at the First Look for Charity event 7 p.m. Friday at the Chicago Auto Show.
Black-tie event kicks off ’13 Chicago Auto Show The NORTHWEST HERALD Since the annual Chicago Auto Show moves its opening day from a Friday to a Saturday this year, the First Look for Charity event also moves back a day. In past years, the event was on a Thursday night as the auto show opened on a Friday morning. This year, the event is Feb. 8 as the show opens on Feb 9. The auto show’s closing has been pushed back a day, too. In past years, it
closed on a Sunday. This year, it will close on a Monday (Feb. 18). The 2013 edition of First Look for Charity begins at 7 p.m. and stays open on the show floor until 11 p.m. It is a black-tie event to raise money for area charities. In 21 years, the event has raised more than $34 million for area charities. It is a special night at the nation’s largest auto show as one can stroll the more than 1 million square feet of show floor while eating
hors d’oeuvres and consuming beverages. Entertainment will be provided by Million Dollar Quartet and American English. Two attendees will win the event’s grand prizes, a 2013 Buick Encore and a 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe. Eighteen Chicago area charities will benefit from the more than $2 million that is expected to be raised at this year’s event. Tickets to the event are $250 each. Purchasers can direct ticket proceeds to benefit
one or more or all of the participating charities. “The Chicago Auto Show is uniformly regarded as the finest auto show in the country, but the charitable cause demonstrates that this auto show is about more than just vehicles and accessories,” 2013 show chairman Michael Ettleson said. “It also is about giving something to the charities of our community.” To attend, visit www.firstlookforcharity. org or call 630-495-2282.
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premium edition. These prices compare with Cadillac’s mid-sized CTS which is priced from $39,000 to almost $65,000 for a sedan (CTS also is a coupe and wagon). The ATS comes with a host of standard amenities including leather trim, power and heated exterior mirrors, four power
windows (express up and down in front), power and heated front seats, keyless entry and push-button start, eight airbags, satellite radio, automatic headlamps, aluminum wheels for performance 17-inch tires and more. For a complete list, visit www. cadillac.com/ATS.
• show Continued from page E1 Additional activities for show-goers will be a make-your-own-buttons station, Gran Turismo race simulators featuring the 2014 Corvette, MyLink in-car demos, Manchester United one-on-one soccer games that allow consumers to play with friends and post to Facebook plus Hot Wheels activity. “This is where you can participate in the world’s longest jump of a Hot Wheels diecast miniature vehicle. We will have the Hot Wheels miniatures of the production Hot Wheels Camaro available to jump,” Ligouri said. Cadillac will showcase the 2014 ELR, 2013 ATS, CTS Coupe, CTS-V, XTS, SRX, Escalade and Escalade ESV on its allotted space of 18,000 square feet. Showgoers can test drive the ATS, XTS and SRX all days and nights of the show but with certain restrictions. Drivers must produce a valid driver’s license and be at least 18 years old, passengers must be at least 8 years old, adults must provide followup information about themselves, drivers and passengers must complete and sign a waiver of liability and pass a Breathalyzer test. The free drives are on streets surrounding McCormick Place. Buick will display on 16,500 square feet of showroom floor the Verano, Verano Turbo, Regal, Regal GS, Lacrosse, Encore and Enclave. Additional activities include live cooking demonstrations by a celebrity chef on the two weekends of the show. People at the show also have the opportunity to see numerous accessories and autorelated exhibits, competition vehicles and project, antique and collector cars. Special appearances and events take place every day. Public parking adjacent to McCormick Place costs $21 at Lots A and C and $14 at Lot B. If parked 16 hours or longer at Lot A (building attached by walk ramps to McCormick Place), the cost goes up to $30. After 6 p.m. on show days, the price drops by $10 at all three lots. There is shuttle bus service from more distant parking lots. For the two weekends of the show, shuttle service is provided to and from the Millennium Park and East Monroe underground garages. Shuttles stop in 10-15 minute intervals near Columbus/Upper and Lower Randolph and at Gate 3 at McCormick Place. Scooter and wheelchair rentals are available by contacting Scootaround’s at 1-888-4417575. You can also submit a rental inquiry at www.scootaround.com/rentals/c/chicagoautoshow/. Scooter rentals are $50 a day and wheelchair rentals are $20 a day. Scootaround is located at Gate 4 of McCormick Place (west end of the Grand Concourse). You are encouraged to reserve in advance. A Chicago ordinance that took effect in 2006 bans smoking in the entirety of McCormick Place and all other public buildings in the city. Smokers can look for designated areas at least 15 feet away from the building. Ask red-coated ushers for directions. For information on ticket prices, show hours, parking, transportation, special appearances or attractions and other information, visit www.chicagoautoshow.com or call 630-495-2282. “Exit surveys from our past shows as well as from 10 others around the country, tell us that the Chicago show is, by far, the best,” Sloan said. “The people who conduct the surveys told us that Chicago is the model of how an auto show should be run. If all the other shows did the same as we do here, they would
Photos provided by Mitch Frumkin
ABOVE: Honda’s Urban sport utility vehicle, which will be on display at the Chicago Auto Show, is being considered by the company as a production vehicle. Based on the concept, Honda could launch the vehicle in Japan by the end of 2013 and introduce it to the United States in 2014. BELOW: Beginning in 2014, Infiniti will replace the letter names (G, M, FX) of its coupes, sedans and convertibles with Q. First up is the Q50 sedan, a replacement for the G models. The Q50 will be on display at the show.
be that much more successful.” The 2013 Los Angeles show was in lateNovember and early December, Detroit’s in January and New York’s will be in the latter days of March and the early days of April. Sloan said February is an ideal month to hold the show. “Spring is just around the corner and people are getting anxious to get out and about. Plus, I think this year people simply are ready to buy a new vehicle. They could be getting tired of the old one. “Statistics indicate that the average age of cars on the road today is 10 or even 11 years. If a car is that old, there has to be a pent-up demand for something new. Fuel prices are going up and with an 11year-old car in the garage that is not very fuel efficient, you might want to start looking at a vehicle that is not only more fuel-efficient, but
safer and better to drive as well. The technology in vehicles built today is so tremendous that it simply outclasses anything built 10 or 11 years ago.” First staged in 1901, the CAS has been produced more times than any other auto show in North America. The show was interrupted by World War II and its immediate aftermath. In 1950, the show resumed. Due to its Midwestern farm and tradesman heritage, the Chicago show emphasized the pickup truck and sport utility market. CATA, the nation’s oldest and largest metropolitan dealer organization, was founded in the early-1900s and has produced the show since 1935. Besides the 400 franchised new-car dealers there are an additional 150 allied members. The group’s dealer members employ approxi-
mately 19,000 people in the metropolitan area. Hosted by CATA, the annual First Look for Charity black-tie preview raises $2 million annually for 18 area charities, making it one of the city’s largest single-day fundraising events. This year, the event is 7 to 11 p.m. Feb. 8. It is a black-tie, $250 per ticket event that annually kicks off the auto show before the public pays to enter the next day. Guests are treated to free champagne, wine, soft drinks, bottled water, hors d’oeuvres and desserts. A Buick Encore and a Hyundai Santa Fe will be raffled off during the event. Following on the heels of the CAS is the Feb. 23-March 3 Greater Milwaukee Auto Show at the downtown Delta Center. Daily hours and ticket prices vary. For information, call 414-908-6000.
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