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welcome to the show floor of the 2015 new york international auto show i'm tim stevens i am antuan goodwin and I'm weighing cunningham and this is the unscripted part of the show where we sit around and kind of talk about what we like on the show we didn't like about the show and then we humming ha a little bit and we pick our favorites and I think you know not really any big trends this show but the closest thing that we could have I think would be the return of the big long luxurious American luxury sedan and it's about time yeah sure it's our companies are getting will swagger back the sales are up so that's good cadillac i celebrating with the ct6 unveil what you said to go look at yeah i've been waiting for that one for a while this is their new big luxury sedan you know in the past they haven't had actually big luxury sedan for a little while you know say that the Escalade was sort of filling that gap for them but they haven't had anything to compete against the mercedes-benz s-class or lexus LS those are the 2 i've been really comparing this with so the CT 6 is a total totally new model meant to compete in that class but interestingly enough it doesn't come with a v8 which is sort of been the you know you need a v8 to compete in this class no they're gonna try to get by with a v6 twin-turbo though so 400 horsepower it is a interesting move I mean the expectation is that everyone's gonna go there at some point some sort of forced induction for sure Cadillac I guess being the first to take the plunge with this all-new car wouldn't be surprised we see others going there too but it certainly looks very nice looks like a you know overgrown CTS I suppose a little bit longer 4-wheel steering on it which is an interesting take to give it a little bit handling yeah there's a lot of interesting and handling technology things out there and I think they're going really tech forward with this car like an adaptive suspension so for a comfortable ride but good handling they still want to readily claim to that sport area to which they haven't really been that successful and then grabbing at least not in the public reputation or you know public perceptions got carbon fiber on the dashboard I mean yeah primordia in here but I you know I sat in that car and it's actually a very comfortable experience you know we haven't actually driven it but certainly you know the doors feel solid everything feels good it's got that those luxury materials inside and it's also has 34 speakers in the audio system that's what I'm scared yeah does that Bose pan or a system it's a new thing that they're trying out I haven't had a chance to hear it yet either but hope it will get a chance to do all that when we go in for review and then just not too far away from that Lincoln unveiled the continental concept which is something of a no return to form from Lincoln maybe it's very different styling design we've seen in current Lincoln's doesn't have that big chrome winged grill that we've seen on a lot of their current cars also doesn't have a name that begins with M K which is interesting long and low a lot of people say it's a little bit derivative of Bentley perhaps but I think it looks quite nice then the big chrome grille certainly makes a strong statement the big story though in that car is actually in the rear seats this is a car they're really designing for the Chinese market more so than the American one where rear seat luxury is a premium so big reclining seats it's got this kind of work bench that pivots out even has leather loafers that come with it again we're just talking about a concept at this point so probably not expected loafers to come with a production model but Lincoln has promised a new full-size sedan coming to market sometime next year so probably look something like that anyone you what I think's interesting about that is you know how concepts transition into production cars Lincoln doesn't have anything right now is sort of build that town car gap beside an MKT and it's just you know a really big you know crossover and it doesn't really sort of fill that that talent our role I'm thinking that when we see this concept gets dumb down to production we're going to see something in that sort of area maybe one of the biggest talking points the show the new Civic yes definitely it's interesting seeing the civic well for starters it's that I Syrian green it which does not photograph well I promise you it's much louder here in person than it is definitely internet and I'm seeing some sort of i'm seeing a lot of echoes in honda that we saw in forward a couple of years we saw like a decade ago ford had to cope at focuses okay first time yeah so they had the European focus they had the North American focus the European focus was everyone loved it North American focus kind of mint so what for did was they decided let's just bring that one over here and this city looks a whole lot like the European Civic and after all of the hullabaloo and the emergency refresh of the current generation North American Civic kind of looks like they're doing a similar thing yeah ha to emphasize actually designed this car in the US and they actually this is what they do a lot what a lot of Japanese makers years they emphasized the cars we've built in the US it's designed in the u.s. so there's a lot of us DNA in this car but it is definitely looks like the European model and I think they realized they really needed to upgrade the look because it got so boring recently I guess have not been impressed by civic slightly and the company as a whole seems to be kind of a little bit at sea they haven't really had a very strong direction and maybe this is a sign of a new direction for them I sure hope it is because they could certainly use it the engine for this new Civic they've actually expect that out that's pretty interesting it's a 1.5 liter four-cylinder I believe turbocharged direct injection so that should be enough power to move this thing around pretty well not only that there's going to be an SI version which is cool yeah there's also going to be a type r version a lot of people who are big civic fans in the 90s or maybe a little bit older may be looking for a little bit larger car which this year's but still get its hatchback and type are in the u.s. turbocharged should be easily upgradable so maybe it's the return of the civic for the custom car scene 10th generation so they got to do something big for it I think and I'm thinking we'll see a production version of that this fall and I think it will probably look a lot like the concept we've seen because so honda is tended to release the concept and then release production version pretty close on after that looks just like the so hopefully that comes out very similar we should also quickly mention the Malibu which I know is not probably the most exciting car it's the entry-level full-size sedan for Chevy it actually looks really nice it's got a rear end looks little bit like an a5 maybe from an Audi and this somewhat controversial teen driver mode where you've got a special key and give to your kids it will basically send statistics back to the parents on how fast the teams were driving how often they went full throttle even things like how often they use the lane departure warning seek an idea for their another paying attention but I think it's a nice step forward for the Malibu which is you know something that a car that we would normally talk about I don't think yeah for sure and I definitely like that they're using the sort of Chevy Volt hybrid technology to get the really good fuel economy that they're claiming in that it's good to feed them sort of spreading that out to more models and actually taking advantage of the rd they put into it a surprise are taking this long but 45 miles per gallon out of the full-size car like that is quite impressive we should also talk about the nissan maxima which is just sitting here to our right 300 horsepower three half liter v6 lost 80 pounds from the last generation I think it looks pretty nice yeah it's definitely a big style it pretty actually a very bold style people call out some of the things like Kia Optima cues I think on the advanced line and yeah mazda hurt too yeah so you know the style could be considered derivative of some things out there but it does look good it's definitely what I think modern full-size sedan should be but you mentioned the 3.5 liter engine that sounds like they're kind of retreading some of the same drivetrain territory they've been in for a long time absolutely and a little bit of news ahead of the show from the miata finally got a price figure definitely got a price figure on the miata and it's interesting because it's about twenty five thousand dollars which means that it's more expensive than the BRZ and the FRS which means that when you start to consider these sort of value of those vehicles versus the sort of prestige of the Miata is actually looking to be a more tight sort of competition than I thought that we'd get a lot of people were thinking that the the miata would show up at about the same price and it would just below those two cars out of the water as far as a low-priced sports car but the miata have actually got a lot of standard content on it I think he's pushing the price up maybe we'll see a stripped-down version in a year you that'll bring the price down a little bit alright let's wrap things up weighing favorite car the show whoo that's a hard call I've seen a lot of good cars I got to mention the McLaren 570 yes this is a new sports series cars it's still kind of unattainable they're still saying I probably close to two hundred thousand dollars fast car I was thinking they might release something a little more attainable at the show but now it's but it's five or six new horsepower its carbon fibre tub aluminum suspension components but they say this is the kind of car you can actually drive to work every day then take to the track on the weekends and probably blow away every m3 on the track I suppose that's what money that's true twice as much money it's a good one though so i think i'm gonna go with that one cuz it's definitely a stunner from my favorite car of the show you know I'm a sucker for a roadster so it's going to be the 2016 Porsche Boxster Spyder I love the boxer and what they've done is they've taken a lot of weight out of its got a manual folding fabric roof it doesn't come standard with a stereo or air conditioning or navigation they basically reduced the weight they edit more power two hundred fiume 375 horsepower which means this would be fastest lightest most hardcore version of the box during for car that's got the reputation that the Boxster has it definitely could use a little influx of hardcore well I was gonna go with the five 70s myself so thanks Wayne but I guess I'll go with the BRZ the tune by STI brz edition which is not really a huge upgrade over the the original because he thinks just intake and exhaust in a couple of tweaks the suspension and a little bit other niceties inside but a very nice looking aero package I think and big wing in the back which for a Subaru makes it good needs gold wheels though definitely needs gold will if you're gonna put that FDI vents on it that man always right well I add a turbo 555 details on the side to are we gonna wrap things up here in New York what's our next show we going to germany next ya know yes frankfurt its frankfurt it isn't right yes I think frankfurt in a couple of months I where we'll be looking at other lovely European sports cars and performance cars in concept cars we hope you enjoyed our coverage of this the 2015 new york international auto show we'll see you Frank for a couple months