I haven't been to many car shows since 1969 (or was it 1973?) when a British painter named Michael Millman living temporarily in our family garage (?) brought us to a Place Bonaventure where I only recall a Volkswagen seeming very expensive at $4,000. We took the bus home and I stared at length at the statues on the church across from the Sun Life building.
I have occasionally been tempted to go since but couldn't co-ordinate a freebie ticket so I've sat 'em out.
The latest show here in January featured a car blatantly marketed towards hipster-nerd-do-gooder-public-transit-users called a Honda Gear, complete with some kinda thingamajig that looks like a fancy USB plug on the back, I guess it's the exhaust. (Could be handy in the winter here in a place where kids get killed when dad's shovelling snow and the pipe gets into the snowbank). The ridiculous car literature claims the car is "Inspired by fixed-gear bicycles" and "Everything that young, discerning urban buyers would want in a car." I drive a car but I also support the anti-car movement because it leaves me more space to park when everybody else takes the bus.
I have occasionally been tempted to go since but couldn't co-ordinate a freebie ticket so I've sat 'em out.
The latest show here in January featured a car blatantly marketed towards hipster-nerd-do-gooder-public-transit-users called a Honda Gear, complete with some kinda thingamajig that looks like a fancy USB plug on the back, I guess it's the exhaust. (Could be handy in the winter here in a place where kids get killed when dad's shovelling snow and the pipe gets into the snowbank). The ridiculous car literature claims the car is "Inspired by fixed-gear bicycles" and "Everything that young, discerning urban buyers would want in a car." I drive a car but I also support the anti-car movement because it leaves me more space to park when everybody else takes the bus.