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LA Auto Show 2015: CNET's editors choose their favorites

2015-11-20
welcome to the show floor of the 2015 Los Angeles International Auto Show we always like to give you a full overview of the show but then we want to make sure that we give you an idea of the cars that speak to us personally let's take a look at those cars now I faker the 2015 LA Auto Show has got to be the porsche cayman gt4 clubsport what is it well you take a min GT for which is already a pretty ridiculous car rip out the interior weld in a roll cage give it raised your suspension a central air jack and my heart just goes to flutter it cost one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars it's not real legal but I don't care I still want one I'm going fiat 124 because it recon jerz the last best thing Fiat did in this country before they left in the 80s now if you remember the 124 you immediately see this in July at 124 if you don't recall the 124 you look at this and say hot looking version of the miata which is what it is now it's fascinating to me is that Fiat says they redid every piece of sheet metal so why does it look so much like a Miata from the side that was a long way around to come back at the same place but the face in the rump are definitely I think real classy and very retro cool bottom line this guy's a crowd-pleaser which is always what I look for in a belle of the ball at one of the major auto shows my pick of the show is the alfa romeo giulia and i will tell you why rear-wheel drive v6 with a manual transmission and fifty fifty weight distribution no let's just let's just take a look at these specs here shall we so I start at the top 505 horsepower a little bit lower 443 pound-feet of torque oh just a little lower 3.8 seconds from zero to 60 Oh lower lower still 191 top speed and be pinnacle the peak the apex of the spec sheet is a Nurburgring time of seven minutes and 39 seconds Thank You Elsa my favorite car is the subaru impreza sedan concept because I mean well look at it it's absolutely gorgeous and there's a good chance it might come into production in this form although i think the lad door handles my pick for the show is this 2017 mercedes-benz sl550 this has all the power of the much bigger and heavier s550 but in a two-seater roadster so it should be a lot of fun to drive I'm not crazy about mercedes-benz current cabin electronics but this supports apple carplay so that takes care of that well Brian beat me to the feet and I can't in good conscience trick the miata yet again so I'm going with the infiniti QX 34 my pic it's a small crossover from infinity and i think it's one of their better looking cars in recent memory I mean look at it in this gorgeous metallic Coco it's just sleek and sexy just love it about the only bad thing I can think about the infiniti QX 30 is that well it makes all the other crossovers in this booth look just sort of frumpy by comparison get the rest of your line together infinity that's it here from Los Angeles let us know what you think do you like the new Fiat tell us we're at Roadshow on Twitter it's the end of the 2015 auto show season but we're gonna be back in Detroit in early 2016 we look forward to seeing you there
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