Top 10 Cars of the Detroit Auto Show

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For some of the more minor auto shows, a Top 10 list of the most important cars often covers most of the new debuts, but not so at the North American International Auto Show. Held each January in Detroit it's the obvious launch site for major products by the Big Three domestic automakers and over the years has also become the venue for important new models by the rest of the auto industry.

Domestics made their mark at this year's Detroit show, starting with one very different concept car revealed by Chevrolet. Called the Tru 140S it may look like some outrageously fast and expensive exotic machine, but it's neither. Based on the same front-drive platform as the Chevy Cruze, it is powered by the same 1.4-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder, which makes just 138 hp in that car. Designed, along with the Code 130R concept, as part of an initiative to attract youth buyers back to the brand, Chevy seems serious about the concept, even announcing that if it made production, the target price would be around the $20,000 mark.

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[subiesailor]

There is an increasing trend ie migration back to good handling cars regardless of power a nice handling car is a nice handling car be it - one with 400hp or one with 138hp a nice handling car is still more enjoyable than the crap we have been driving through the late 80's -90's and carried over into the 2000's - the shift from full frame truck SUV's being the must have to car based SUV's being top sellers just goes to show that handling for most people is far more important than towing capacity and rock crawling ability.