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Article: `Concept cars' offer ride to future
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 14, 1990
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On the auto trip of the future, the kids could be in the
backseat playing Nintendo or watching their favorite video while mom
and dad listen to a Mozart CD up front.
An entertainment center is featured in Oldsmobile's
"Expression," one of the many "concept cars" drawing crowds at the
Chicago Auto Show at McCormick Place.
The test models are just for show now, but they contain some of
the features and innovations that ultimately may end up in cars for
the consumer.
The futuristic fingertip control panel of the Lamborghini's 1987
Portofine concept car is now in the Chrysler LeBaron Coupe of 1990.