Ralph Gilles kissing another “baby.” Photo courtesy of Chrysler Group LLC
Watching Twitter during an auto show is like a whirling dervish. As intoxicating the tweets, impressions and links of posting and photos, it is all dizzying.
That was my feeling after reviewing a day’s tweets and Facebook updates from the New York International Auto Show. Trusted colleagues and allies opening up the floodgates to a new wave of large sedans, luxury crossovers and SUVs and everything else that was saved up for this culmination of the North American auto show circuit.
Maybe I was starting to feel under the weather. Maybe I was too pooped to even read another piece of bandwidth. Or, perhaps the New York Auto Show rolled out the big guns for the end.
After some needed rest and contemplation, I took the time to sort out which of the plethora of introductions was worth recapping on here. Some were easier than others. It would come as no surprise to see which one trumped them all…
Commentary: Lions, Lambs and Madness
An “overflow” at the V&R Garage. All photos by Randy Stern
March – there was no telling the lion from the lamb last month.
It was full of madness, however. Between the work for V&R and Lavender and entertaining seven review vehicles in rapid succession, this March lived up to its billing.
A few readers, friends and others may have pointed to last month as something that was in the universe. Perhaps it was. It was a fantastic opportunity to raise the profile for both V&R and Lavender as viable outlets for automobile writing.
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