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Article: At International Auto Show Today's Cool Concept May Be Tomorrow's Hot Seller. (Originated from Detroit Free Press)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- January 5, 1994
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DETROIT--Jan. 6--Concept cars are more than just something cool for designers to do when they're not busy creating more mundane stuff like door handles and bumpers for a 1988-model pickup truck.
As usual, the dream cars to be unwrapped at this year's North American International Auto Show are intended to dazzle the public with their sleek shapes and futuristic engineering.
But under those rounded, 30-coat pearlescent-painted bodies, they also provide platforms for engineers to try out all sorts of high-tech legerdemain that just may turn up in your garage a few years from now.
And if audiences really go wild, the reaction to a concept car can give an ...