Detroit auto show preview and look back
We don’t do new cars much here at Hemmings, but we still keep tabs on the major auto shows, and Detroit always promises some big goings-on. The folks at NAIAS have already started planning for their...
View Articlevintage Detroit Auto Show memorabilia
There’s a lotta hoopla about new cars going on over in Detroit. Buncha concepts and hybrids and chest-thumping. Seems things were more low-key in 1969, judging from the 20-page special dection on the...
View ArticleHip-Hop and Haulers
Jennifer Hudson, of the movie Dreamgirls,walks the runway with the Cadillace Escalade at the GM Style event in Detroit, Michigan Saturday, January 6, 2007 photo courtesy GM Music and cars haven’t been...
View ArticleCadillac muscle
The CTS is getting a facelift for 2008. No word yet on improvements to the CTS-V but we’ll keep you posted… photo courtesy GM Yes, in recent years, Cadillac has been building modern muscle cars....
View ArticleThey’re here! Heavy Chinese presence at Detroit
Changfeng and Geely have been dipping their toes in the waters of the NAIAS in Detroit for a couple of years now as a prelude to an inevitable launch of a Chinese car brand in the US, but this year...
View ArticleDetroit, 1960
It’s been a while since we visited Wayne State University’s Virtual Motor City Project, but a fresh search through the archives there turned up these two shots taken in 1960 in downtown Detroit,...
View ArticleThis Day in History: Ford Thunderbird prototype finished
On February 19, 1954, the prototype of the Ford Thunderbird was finished; it debuted at the Detroit Auto Show the next day. The stylish new V-8-powered two-seater would not enter production until fall,...
View ArticleIconic Bug Love: 1994 Volkswagen Concept 1 brochure
All brochure images from the collection of Mark J. McCourt Volkswagen did a genius thing when it decided to proceed with building the Concept 1 show car in the early 1990s: it tapped into an...
View ArticleHemmings Sunday Cinema – Gone in 60 Seconds, GMC Motorhome racing, Detroit...
* H.B. Halicki. Gone in 60 Seconds. No sign of Nicolas Cage. All 90-something minutes of car chases, car crashes, and general mayhem. * We’ve seen GMC Motorhome burnouts, so obviously the next logical...
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