Well this past weekend I had a chance to go to the 2009 Greater Milwaukee Autoshow and a few things struck me. The smallish Toyota display very few people in it, even in what I believe to be a hot-bed of Toyota products. The people browsing the Toyota display struck me as "red-necks" that kind you find driving beat up Ford pick-ups and rusted Pontiac Firebirds you know? The things I heard coming from people browsing Toyota's weren't nearly as positive as what I expected, and also there were no turn-tables and an ugly Venza, and Tundra were the only vehicles that really sparked any intrest amoung the crowd. (I went last Friday after-noon from around 1-5pm) As for the Chevrolet display I saw a much more up-level group of people running around and jumping into Chevrolet's especially the Traverse, GMT-900 and new Malibu. The Malibu and Traverse were drawing much positive praise and people impressed with the look and quality of the Malibu, a couple didn't even know the Malibu offered a hybrid, and were the eco friendly type as well. The positive praise for many Chevrolet products did suprise me some. Saturn was a ghost town and in larger areas Saturns tend to more popular. Saab remained pretty popular with the upper-end oatmeal crowd. Cadillac has a lot of different types of people around from young families and professionals to wanta-be rappers and grandpa's. I took that as a refreshing site indeed. Pontiac had a mixed crowd most were younger well dressed males and some older folks whom from the sounds of it really knew what Pontiac was all about and there praise for the new G8 GXP couldn't have been higher. Many folks also gathered around the Camaro, much more popular than the new Mustang on a turn table. The new LaX had a wide gathering of people also from young people to old folks who had clearly owned Buicks their entire life. The Buick display also had lots of young people looking at the Enclave.

Now for the photographs...

*All photographs were taken with a Pentax K100D D-SLR and an 18-55mm lenes at varying focal lenght at ISO 1600 (on over 95 percent of them)

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...And thats all folks... Enjoy and feel free to save them as always... Leave all the comments you want, and tell me what a bad photographer I am. :AH-HA_wink:

Also Hummer was pretty dead as well. I didn't take any Saturn or Hummer photos as they are likely to get cut anyways and no one at the show cared and nor do I. Sorry I forgot about GMC photographs but they had a pretty good crowd around the new Sierra and Yukon Hybrid there.

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Nice pics...guess you really liked the Camaro...

Nice pics...guess you really liked the Camaro...

Oh you couldn't tell, I didn't get to Chicago due to weather and had to see one, before this summer when a dealer gets one. My son or I will be getting a 2010-2015 Camaro SS coupe with a manual most likely, although he still has a little more practice to do in order to master a stick. But uhh yeah that is why I went to Milwaukee and also I visited family.

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Why is there a Trailblazer there?

Why is there a Trailblazer there?

In the show or why did I take photos of it? --Because it was an SS!

The LaX looks nice. Me liking a Buick is quite a surprise!

I think I've seen the same car a dozen different times. It would be more efficient and less of a bandwidth waste to post of a few pics of the most notable vehicles and then link to the album for those who to look at all those vehicles that are old news by now. Seriously. I doub't very many people are getting hard-ons looking at an ancient Trailblazer.

Lacrosse and Camaro look good.

I think I've seen the same car a dozen different times. It would be more efficient and less of a bandwidth waste to post of a few pics of the most notable vehicles and then link to the album for those who to look at all those vehicles that are old news by now. Seriously. I doub't very many people are getting hard-ons looking at an ancient Trailblazer.

Lacrosse and Camaro look good.

Your a smart-a$$.

Your a smart-a$$.

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That white Solstice gives me wood.

That white Solstice gives me wood.

So you think it is pretty good looking eh?

Um yeah.

If it were available with red or blue accents in the black interior it would really make me shoot.

I really don't like white cars. But damn, that Solstice looks great!

I really don't like white cars. But damn, that Solstice looks great!

I love white cars, but either way in any color the new Solstice Coupe is hot, but not as hot as the G8 GXP or new Camaro SS. :AH-HA_wink:

Holy cow, gm4life ... awesome pics! Thanks for sharing them with us .

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Holy cow, gm4life ... awesome pics! Thanks for sharing them with us .

Cort | 35swm | "Mr Monte Carlo"."Mr Road Trip" | pig valve.pacemaker ...MidW Event = 04/04/09

WRMNshowcase.legos.HO.models.MCs.RTs.CHD = http://www.chevyasylum.com/cort

"Someday slowly turns to never" ... Tanya Tucker ... 'Soon'

You are more than welcome! Glad you enjoyed them!

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So many pictures. Perfect for my visual learning style. lol. Great job.

Really like that G8 GXP and the CTS-V.

KC

I should post some photos I took at the Louisville car show two Fridays ago.

And I took photos of cars that were non-GM too, like the 2010 Mustang.