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hey welcome to the LA auto show we are the verge i am chris sigler we have Jason Harper with me and also Tamara Warren my beautiful lovely colleagues and we are perched high atop the show thanks to BWW we're here in their booth on the second level if you have two floors for your boots I would say you're balling let's talk about these cars what what cars do you guys like what car did you not like there weren't that many like huge introductions here right it's kind of a slow show we might as well just jump in with that viet yeah yeah that thing's a polarizing I mean like look the Miata is not a controversial car everybody loves the miata who's driven it it's cheap it's good it looks all right this Fiat is not look all right well you so you like I like it but I feel like it's a good time because what it shows is that we can get back into the era of small sports like the spiders yes which has been missing ya 30 years right right it's may be coming back some degree and you know and I mean even if you think about there were a lot of like great inexpensive convertibles you even think about Saturn for a minute like no bad right so here we are with this new model and I kind of feel like well that indicates a trend which means we'll see more of them which means less boring cars which i'm always a fan of that's what will also say nice lightweight cars we talk about ways to be efficient and you know as we add complications Yugi end up with heavy cars that you need more and more complications the great thing about the mazda and the Fiat platform is it's like it hang on natch has for an efficiency he doesn't take no power to rate weight ratio is naturally fantastic yeah that's nosing for shooting for and you know that people talk about lightning as a concept that's the way to start it is a light small cause any time by the way we're seeing so many crossovers everything everybody's got to cross over there their SUV is certainly the trend and if somebody was making point to me that you know it takes more than one card to get a high-power car there's five of them it doesn't hurt the segment it helps a segment and I was just gonna say i mean the auto industry is full of imitators everyone is skeptical until one jumps in and there's some positive sales numbers and then which might bring you to the bfoq the capital a is it an unusual beast timer you saw in the flash yeah i love the weird cars at the LA auto yeah I'm young thank you I'm no more jaan symphony at the Auto Show please give me give me some weird shapes yeah and you'd mentioned something to me before that I thought was interesting which is that it's la la is a drop-top city and so they're showing drop that person you know it was said you know la shows a green show why we didn't see a ton of green stuff here I didn't see anything in mind blowing or certainly also know for gt's drops here a little bit of a cornet show it isn't this was not a show like that did you seen nobody who walked up when you say I saw the coolest thing right I saw a couple cool sports cars there is a BMW race car right behind us and we're gonna get the m4 GTS which kind of looks very race harsh that's exciting yeah porsche did their club sport it is a key actual race car this is a show when they show those kind of things because you actually pay attention to them where is something like Detroit or Geneva they're not going to get so much attention because they are releasing big things so right its kind of the end of the year they're there they kind of just dropped the cup those things that aren't such a big deal right yeah the evoke convertible they're not going to be selling a million apiece right they're going to be selling a few thousand maybe Wow and also in the subtracter worn in LA in the just the product cycle car manufacturing is not in the sweet spot I mean it originally started out to kind of get the jump on Detroit when we are really thinking about North America but it's a global automotive market and the reality is what happens here is not necessarily the most important to these automakers top it my roof I would say one interesting thing today is out Scott Key oh that the President did actually mentioned the TDI scandal which I think was interesting and they are talking about their electrification programme which they are talking about by twenty-five percent by 2015 will be 20 25 20 25 times arguing I did um but the idea is they basically said he said we're all in on this William haven't been innovators we will we will acknowledge the people come for us but this is what we see as our efficiency program I thought it was interesting that they did indeed acknowledge a GDI and they talked about the electron the electric program and that is going to be important they have to do something well in its timing right so turns out this was a show that was time to address those problems to me that was one of the more evocative things of the show because you know to do they basically they talked about it and they get I have a question and that is how important are no shows these days do we need I mean the auto makers themselves drop the news before the show's themselves I mean very rarely few are you shocked i mean if the 4g teen was a shot but very rarely do you get some compelling piece of news anymore then it sits well I think I mean auto show started this the history of auto shows has to do with car dealers so they're about selling cars so the press piece is sort of something that got tapped on along the way when automotive advertising became a thing and a profitable industry to invest in this is the one place we actually get to see cars before they're on the roads before they're available for consumers you try them out and to see how they look side by side I don't like that and there is this interesting thing exactly that you see you actually see design language as you walk through or or the lack of design language it is interesting a look at alpha and then look at Mercedes and see other commonalities sometimes brands would expect every common knowledge there are I think it's great point that cheek by jowl like oh my God look at this yeah well look at that where and that brand is just right boring right now yeah I mean you're right well yeah I'm excited about cars and they want to touch them and see them in the flesh it's important and it's important to continuing people's fascination with cars I love cars i love different kinds of cars you know mobility is absolutely interesting but there's something about touching car emotionality are that I think it's one of the reasons that I'm in this business so I want other people to be back side about this part well and not to go out east coast on you guys but the New York show is the most publicly attended auto show yeah really yeah so so actually that's like I have new one ironic considering many New Yorkers that I know don't drive so oh there's something about cars that still captures the imagine what are they coming down from upstate are they where they going around they're coming from everywhere so we're we gonna do this again at Detroit I assume the three of us will be some news to be broken there will def are driven so yeah we I mean this is the busy this is the crazy season right we have CES which is now a car show then we have Detroit the following week and then we kind of hit the ground running through like the middle of the year you know we have new york in april or Geneva yeah so more cars more verge more fun times all of the above yeah so stay tuned we're gonna have more coverage here from the show we're going to have more reporting hopefully you've seen some for other videos a few things that I need you to do for me go to the version com select transportation that's your home for all of our car coverage and mass transit and transit policy and all those good things I need you to follow Virge cars on on Twitter I need you to follow jason harper spin and date on twitter 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