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The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's North American International Auto Show page on 30 July 2018, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) is an annual auto show held in Detroit, Michigan at Cobo Center, usually in January. It is among the largest auto shows in North America. The Metro Detroit area which the NAIAS serves is home to the "Big Three" American automakers, Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors.
In 1899, William E. Metzger helped organize the Detroit Auto Show, only the second of its kind. The next year, he helped stage the New York Auto Show in New York's Madison Square Garden.
An auto show was held in Detroit in 1907 at Beller's Beer Garden at Riverside Park and since then annually except 1941-1953. During the shows first decades of existence it portrayed only a regional focus. In 1957 international carmakers exhibited for the first time.
In 1987 the Detroit Auto Dealers Association (DADA) proposed it become international. The members of the DADA went to places such as Europe and Japan in the attempt to convince those unveiling their new brands/vehicles in those countries to bring those unveilings to the North American Auto show. That attempt proved to be successful, the North American Auto show was then renamed the North American International Auto Show in 1989. The North American International Auto Show has been hosted in Detroit, Michigan for over a Century. Since 1965 the show has been held at Cobo Center where it occupies nearly 1 million square feet (93,000 m²) of floor space. Prior to being held at the Cobo Center, the show was held at other well known places in the Metro Detroit area. Some of those places include the Light Guard Armory, Wayne Gardens pavilion, and Michigan State Fairgrounds.
Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz will not be present at the 2019 edition, following recent absences of other luxury manufacturers like Porsche, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo. In 2020, the show will move from January to June, in hopes of attracting more visitors and adding outdoor events.
| Auto Show Report (2008) Duration: 2:51 Download Windows Media Video (large-5.1MB) Download Windows Media Video (small-774KB) |
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| 14 January 2008 | Automakers Show Off Green, Fuel Efficient Vehicles Greg Flakus for Voice of America News |  Article Page - 4:03 |
| 18 January 2008 | X Prize Foundation Sponsors Competition to Develop Fuel Efficient Automobile Greg Flakus for Voice of America News | Article Page - 3:37 |
| 10 January 2010 | North American Auto Show Puts Detroit in Spotlight Kane Farabaugh, VOA News | Article Page - 4.9MB - 3:33 |
| 11 January 2010 | Lawmakers, Protesters, Media Converge on 2010 Detroit Auto Show VOA News |  Article Page - 7.8MB - 3:29 |
| 14 January 2014 | Detroit Showcases Dramatic Turnaround at Auto Show Kane Farabaugh, VOA News | Article Page - 18.9MB - 2:45 |
| 15 January 2014 | Detroit NAIAS White Roof Radio | WRR Topic Page - 45:24 |
| 20 January 2016 | Obama Claims Credit for Auto Industry Recovery Mary Alice Salinas, VOA News | Article Page - 30.8MB - 1:05 |
| 15 January 2019 | Mustang News | 2020 Shelby GT500 AmericanMuscle.com |  Article Page - 41 photos |
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Subject: 2006 Dodge Challenger Concept Car
Photographer: "Craigblock" Event: 2006 North American International Auto Show License: GNU Free Documentation License View photo of 2006 Dodge Challenger Concept Car - 270KB |
