Yes, same thing at the Toronto Auto Show.  VW had a pale impact.  Same
displays as in Chicago. No concept designs at all.  No Microbus :- (  I
wish they would bring back the Vanagon with a hybrid
mulltifuel-electric-hydrogen cell engine and AWD. Audi section had a
cutaway of the mototronic transmission.  New Audi A2 1.4 TDi (all aluminum
frame) is very cool!  Many people crowded around the BMW (Mini fever),
Mercedes, the many $200K and up new models and Daimler-Chrysler concept
vehicles (yuck).  The alternative fuel section was very cool for me;
hydrogen cell, hybrid and solar cars but none of the crowd seemed to take
much notice.  I don't think I would buy very much of anything on display at
the show.  Then again I'm not a rich man. I love my vanagon and prefer to
find ways to help it last FOREVER.  I-4 engine conversion most likely
coming soon, due to minor (?) intermittent head leaks.  I haven't posted
much to this list, but I certainly appreciate the kind spirit of most of
you and I have learned alot in three years as a result. (Some of the wacko
long threads notwithstanding,although nobody's brought up
where-do-you-keep-your-gun in a long while)

The very best to you all,

Bill James
'84 Westy
'76 BMW 2002 (and it peeved me greatly that at the 2002 auto show BMW
didn't display one of these)