The 2011 New York Auto Show

This year has been full if auto shows that steal the spot light but sometimes it starts to get a bit boring. All car companies revealing the same cars they showed off at the last 3 big auto shows this year. Some of these vehicles have new a car navigation system or a car radio smarter than your average high school student. Even so the cars have started to be less than entertaining, the Honda Civic is a good example. If you put the “All New” 2012 civic Si next to the previous year, I couldn’t tell the difference. The new model is basically a 2011 with a body kit.

So if there are companies repeating the thrills of the past to see if they can get a rise out of ya, what is new? Well there were some companies that have pushed some big reveals, VW showed off the new VW Beetle. The new beetle is slightly different than the last, even though all the reviewers are raving about it being all new. Truth be told, it does look very nice but not enough of a change to rave about. Companies that usually stick to what they do best and not change at all have made the biggest leaps. Mercedes showed off the new A-Class which looks nothing like any Mercedes that has ever been released. Land Rover also released a number of new models that look unique and are rockin the new hybrid platform to boot.

Hybrid is the way of the future and it slowly it will lead to all electric vehicles that will help us all get around for much cheaper. Though electric vehicles lead me back to a question I have asked before, what about those of us who park on the street. Not all of us can park in a garage every night to plug in our cars, if we park on the street not everyone is honest. There goes our plug in cable walking down the street, So what do we do? When the car industry answers that then maybe the world can adopt the whole EV movement.