Article: `Concept cars' offer ride to future

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.

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