TOP FIVE BIG IDEAS:
1. Electric cars – they’re this year’s must-have car manufacturer accessory, and everybody has got one. Even if it isn’t actually real, hasn’t got a motor and can’t be driven… (Image from Cnet)
2. Matte paint. When it’s made it from SEMA to Frankfurt, you can safely say it’s gone mainstream (Image from Autoguide)
3. LED lights, you’re not a big, powerful German saloon car if you don’t have some. Or even better, a lot. (Image from Autoblog)
4. Unusually small/quirky concept car. Preferably masquerading as your company’s answer to global warming but really just because your engineers can’t make the batteries last longer than 15min if the cars were any bigger. Peugeot, Renault, we’re looking at you… (Image from Cnet)
5. Glamour girls. Nice to see car companies going back to their roots. Or at least the seventies. All suggestions that the number of new cars being unveiled by a manufacturer is in inverse proportion to the attractiveness of their stands hostesses is of course, quite untrue. Isn’t it Fiat? (Image from Autoblog)
Picks by: Gordon Welsh and Tom Masefield
