The big show in New York is the last major show before the 2014 model year begins and manufacturers took advantage of this timing to introduce a huge slew of new and redesigned models. From the 74 horsepower 3-cylinder Mitsubishi Mirage to the 624 horsepower V12 Rolls Royce Wraith, the NYAIS had over 20 world or U.S. premieres.

In Motor City, the practice for years was to cruise in your best car with your best girl up and down, up and down Woodward Avenue, waiting to see and be seen by the rest of the Motor City cruisers and their girls (or their boys). Flashing chrome, blacked-out grilles, white-walls, redlines, and the occaisional spontaneous drag race.

The Arab oil embargo put an end to that, with city fathers outlawing crusing. The Woodward Dream Cruise is the annual revival of the practice, a concession to cruisers angry at being grounded. Over the years it has become a week-long festival, drawing about a million participants and spectators from all over the world.

The 2017 Woodward Dream Cruise: Hotrods, dragsters, classics, antiques, imports and even crazier stuff!

Only 275 Cadillac CT6-V hotrods will be buit for 2019, possibly the only ones built at all now that GM has announced the closing of the plant that builds it. A new XT4 small sport utiility and all the other changes for the 2019 Cadillac models here at Car Chat.