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02-23-2012, 10:37 AM | #1 |
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Toronto Canada International Auto-Show 2012 Some Photos
I went to the Toronto Auto-Show yesterday. The weather was just right so I made the 418 KM (260 Mile) roundtrip. It is always a nice outing, this was my second trip to this auto show (I went last year). Next year I think I will take in the Chicago or Detroit show for a change.
Anyway, the pictures are self explanatory except for the following comments:- Should you ever go, just set your GPS to Toronto, it will find the CN Tower and you can park your car and walk to the show you cannot miss it. There are plenty of benches to take a rest I found one at the end of my 4 hour walk around the place to rest my tired feet . Traffic in Toronto is always quite heavy so I found an opportunity to take a picture on the way in and out of Toronto. The weather turned in the late afternoon so it was time to leave. I will later optimize and add additional (non BMW photos) of some other fine cars to this tread in Post Number 2. The last Photo is a teaser yes it is the Mercedes C63 Black Series. Anyway I like to share some of the photos with you, not all of you have time to go. Sorry for the poor iPhone photos, however, I travel very light and my camera gear is quite heavy. Enjoy. Cheers, Rolf
PS. I do invide other Canadian Members of this Forum to add additional photos to this thread if you happened to go to the show and have additional photos to share with us.
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More Photos from the show
I found the time to reduce the size of my photos to post them here ... once again sorry for the poor quality in some of them for they have been taken with my iPhone (my camera equipment is just too heavy to log around at a show like this).
Some additional commentary to go with the photographs ....
All in all it was a good show ...
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Thanks for sharing. The Chicago Auto Show was terrible compared to some of these other shows that other countries and States had. I was really disappointed in BMW's display. It looks like you guys had a great set up in Toronto!
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02-23-2012, 11:51 AM | #4 |
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Whoa! I see BMW makin' their own copies of the BBS FI.
Damn this car! Looks too nice and aggressive. Black series FTW!
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02-23-2012, 12:08 PM | #6 |
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The Chicago show was underwhelming for sure this year.
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02-23-2012, 01:51 PM | #8 |
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Did you notice on the concept car no dials no knobs no iDrive, just the back projected screen ~ properly a touch screen on the passenger (they must have found out how my wife loves to play with all the dials).
We have (at least I have) seen so many wonderful technological changes over the last 50 years ... god knows what the next 50 years will bring. .... bet it will be all cars look similar to this concept car and you be guided along the highway via satellite no more driver participation at all ... I wonder what will happen if the satellite crashes into space scrap and all the cars come to a strand still what a traffic jam that will be. We are already at the point were the police can locate your stolen car via On-Star slow the car down once surrounded by police and bring the car to a complete standstill ... the fellow at Cadillac talked about it at length ... Oh well I shall not be around in 50 years ... so I truly enjoy my M3 ... for not too long from now they will say "They don't build them like the used to anymore" and they be so right Touch screen back projection .... most likely touch screen far from the reach of the driver
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Life will take us to some interesting places, fortunately The ///M3 will too with a many of us know this very well, now my C6.3 AMG with 487 HP does it too ---> Click here for some good stuff I found Last edited by Mr. ///M3 RD; 06-12-2012 at 03:23 PM.. |
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02-23-2012, 01:57 PM | #9 |
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Appreciate you sharing the pics. Looks like BMW had a decent set-up. My fav is still the IAA in Frankfurt though.
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(love to go properly will next year and combine it with my holiday trip)
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02-23-2012, 02:46 PM | #12 |
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I went on Monday. It wasn't bad when we got there in the morning but it became a zoo in the afternoon. It was a Public holiday here in Ontario. Dalton Day (I mean, Family Day).
Anyways, I didn't get to take too many pics because I was busy chasing my 4 year old son around. Pics were taken with my Blackberry so please excuse the poor quality and composition. Red Bull Racing RB8 Acura NSX Concept Jaguar Concept Corvette Stingray Concept My new Panerai at the Autoshow The Hot Wheels Camaro and the reason that I didn't take many pics Other noteworthy cars that I saw include: Aston Martin One77 MacLaren MP4 12C Subaru BRZ and Scion FR-S
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02-23-2012, 02:47 PM | #13 |
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Sorry I did not take too many photos (primarily only what I so like) ... not at the Mitsubishi booth ... I recall they had nice cars. Perhaps your local dealership will have one.
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02-23-2012, 03:30 PM | #14 |
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Thanks for the pics drchuck72 and nice Panerai man! Baller indeed.
Alter Peter, Any pics of the new 2012 Mazda CX-5?? Thanks for sharing pics as well!
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I like certain cars and then I take photographs. Perhaps your nearest dealer will have the ones you like to see.
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Yeah, best to wait until next year, I believe this year should be the commercial vehicle show.
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Will it not be both? or is the 2012 one being held in France?
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new m5 n 6-series r sooo sexy! thx 4 sharin!
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I too liked the 6 Series, only the sticker price up here in Canada turned me right off .... and I said to myself ... what a sexy M3 you have in the parking lot lets go home
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i hope BMW never, ever, ever, makes the car in that first photo (well actually the 7th photo down). That thing is a disaster.
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