Paris Delivered a Full Auto-Show Debut Day, With a Warning for U.S. Readers

Ars Technica's report from Paris describes a show behaving the way auto shows used to: its media day, held the day before the report, produced debuts aplenty — framed as a step back into the era when automakers rolled out new cars at the event itself. The author also tells you what the piece is for. It is meant to irritate you, he says, because he is pretty sure none of what he saw will come to the United States. That makes the revival a strange sort of good news: evidence the trade-show format still works, presented as a window display for the readers least likely to be able to order from it.