 
Billk
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Username: Billk
Post Number: 109
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 12:21 pm: |    |
People could walk the riverwalk, stroll up Woodward to a free concert at Campus Martius, catch a show at the Fox etc. instead to tromping through a foot of snow in subzero temperatures. |
Chris_rohn
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Username: Chris_rohn
Post Number: 331
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 12:23 pm: | |
Sounds nice, but if that were the case you wouldn't want to be indoors at the auto show! |
Mikeg
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Username: Mikeg
Post Number: 1144
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 12:33 pm: | |
Logistically, GM and Ford could not support the NAIAS then, since the Paris and Frankfurt auto shows are held in September - Frankfurt in the odd years and Paris in the even years. |
Ndavies
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Username: Ndavies
Post Number: 2760
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 12:33 pm: | |
It might be great for the attendees, However it would suck for the automakers themselves. The timing of the show is tied to vehicle production schedules and the best car sales months of the year.
New Model year vehicle production starts in late august or early september. Not enough time to prep new cars to be shown at a show. There is no way the car companies would have sufficient quantities of the new cars to sell the day the show closed. September through December are the slowest selling periods of the year. No one's looking for new cars at that time of year.
Almost all new car autoshows are winter and early spring. Spring is the prime selling season for cars in North America. Very few looks at an autoshow in September would be relevant to a person purchasing a car in April. The autoshow is about selling cars. The show in January starts building momentum for the spring selling period. |
Miss_cleo
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Username: Miss_cleo
Post Number: 849
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 12:59 pm: | |
Whens the last time Detroit got a foot of snow anyway? |
Charlottepaul
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Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1615
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 2:08 pm: | |
Remember the auto show in I think about 1999 or so, back before the city of Detroit had a policy to plow roads when it snowed? |
Burnsie
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Username: Burnsie
Post Number: 1143
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 3:21 pm: | |
Ndavies-- Right on with everything you said, but new model year production often starts in July after the usual two-week shutdown. Granted, it usually takes a month or two to get up to speed. |
Ndavies
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Username: Ndavies
Post Number: 2763
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 4:13 pm: | |
Yes, you're right about the earlier plant launches. I was basing the month on the fact that most new vehicles are held at the plants until sufficient volume has been built and the launch issues have been resolved. Carryovers usually release earlier. New/significantly redesigned vehicles sometimes need rework. Most start arriving at dealers in early September.
No point in pushing sales hard if you can't deliver to the customer. |
Deputy
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Username: Deputy
Post Number: 97
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 4:39 pm: | |
Yeah....but what other event would we be able to attract that would fill Cobo for approx. 2 months in the middle of winter??? |
Paulmcall
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Username: Paulmcall
Post Number: 386
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 5:08 pm: | |
I'd say worry about how they can expand the Cobo Center so they can keep the show here. That should be the number #1 priority.
Tradition will keep it where it is. |