Some of the world’s premier luxury brands, meanwhile, won’t be represented at the Detroit auto show this year, including Bentley, Jaguar, Maserati and Rolls-Royce, according to Bloomberg.
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DETROIT (AP) Automakers plan to debut 45 new vehicles at this year’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit, which opens to the public January 16. In 2009, as the global financial crisis peaked, “the American auto industry was on the brink of collapse”, Obama said.
This marks the first time President Obama will attend the Detroit auto show during his Presidency.
Another cabinet member, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, will travel to Dearborn and Detroit Wednesday to host a roundtable with resettled refugees.
Previewing Lexus’ then-forthcoming design language, including the full-length spindle grille and Nike swoosh LED daytime running lights, it won the EyesOn Design Award that year and was a crowd and designer favourite, so much so that the company showcased it again in the gorgeous new Opal Blue hue at the 2012 Australian International Motor Show in Sydney.
Despite the lower sales, automakers says they’ll need a plug-in portfolio to help them meet tightening government fuel-economy standards.
Obama announced the visit in his weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday.
The next president will decide the fate of Obama’s goal of boosting average fuel efficiency to 54.5 miles per gallon (23.2 km per liter) by 2025. Because I believe that every American should be proud of what our most iconic industry has done. The h-tron quattro concept at the Detroit auto show is envisioned as a zero-emissions vehicle with power from electric motors in the front and rear.
Last year’s winners were the Volkswagen Golf and Ford F-150 truck. 2015 just set a new volume record and momentum should carry over into 2016. In 2016 one of the SUVs GM sells in America – – the Buick Envision – will be, for the first time, imported from China, to the chagrin of the United Auto Workers union, a key Obama constituency.
“We stand firmly behind diesel vehicles”, Wissmann said.
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Over the next two days, automakers will debut nearly four dozen new production vehicles and some experimental concept cars. It will replace the Town and Country later this spring and, eventually, the Dodge Caravan. Daimler chief Dieter Zetsche took a not-so-subtle dig at his rival Sunday night, telling reporters at a lavish party unveiling the new Mercedes E-Class luxury sedan that in contrast to “some German automakers” Santa “left a lot of candy in our stockings” in 2015.
