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High Gear Media Invades Detroit for 2012 North American International Auto Show
The High Gear Media team has invaded Detroit to cover the 2012 North American International Auto Show!
Be sure to stay tuned to High Gear Media, where you’ll find full blown Detroit Auto Show coverage on The Car Connection, Motor Authority, and Green Car Reports.
For example, check out but a sampling of recent stories:
2013 Lincoln MKZ Preview: 2012 Detroit Auto Show
2013 Acura ILX Compact Hybrid: Detroit Auto Show Preview
2013 Hyundai Veloster Turbo Live Pics: 2012 Detroit Auto Show
2013 Ford Fusion: Live Detroit Show Photos
Acura NSX Concept Live Photos: 2012 Detroit Auto Show
And of course we’re all over Facebook and Twitter as well:
Facebook: The Car Connection | Motor Authority | Green Car Reports
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Win A Trip to Cover NYIAS With High Gear Media: Contest Winner Announced
In the end, you made it really difficult for us!
We received a slew of amazing submissions in the final days of our contest to tell us about your favorite auto show moment and win a trip to the New York International Auto Show (sponsored by High Gear Media, Hyundai, and the New York International Auto Show). The editorial brain trust put its collective (and collectively fierce) mind to the task of selecting a winner, and…
We are thrilled to announce that Brian Parker is our winner! Check out Brian’s favorite auto show moment: My Memorable Auto Show Moment: Tokyo 1991
Here is a snippet:
As we entered the North Hall, I quickly discovered that this was a Motor Show unlike any other that I had been to in the United States. Where your typical show in the U.S. was more or less a huge, temporary, multi-brand showroom where you could wander at random, climbing in and out of cars, picking up brochures off a rack and viewing the occasional prototype or new model on a turntable – the Tokyo show seemed more like a museum where one would walk along a pathway past the exhibits, perhaps listen to a presentation if you understood Japanese or pick up brochures handed to you from behind a desk by a smiling young lady, maybe peer into the windows of a car on the floor that’s been locked up or gaze at a mockup of a transmission that had been laid open for viewing or even watch as the bodywork of a production car was peeled open like a grape to reveal its interior – then move along to the next exhibit along the pathway.
Please feel free to drop by Brian’s winning article to let him know what you think and to discuss your favorite auto show moment as well. And in the meantime Brian is getting ready to head to New York City to meet up with the High Gear Media team to help cover the New York International Auto Show!
Look out for a new contest announcement soon, and in the meantime, we are always on on the lookout for skilled writers – and it’s easy to get started in writing about cars with High Gear Media using our open blogging platform.
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The New York Times Covers High Gear Media Brands In April Fool’s Day Trickery Roundup
We did our best to get a little April Fool’s Day spirit going this April 1st. Turns out, The New York Times noticed. Three of our brands were featured in the Times’ roundup of April Fool’s craziness in autos, cited for their creativity.
John Voelcker created a fake scoop for Green Car Reports on a company called NuTankX, supposedly a start-up based in Michigan that worked a new angle on the Better Place battery swap — gas tank switching.
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield write a story on All Cars Electric where she “found” some plug-in innovation from the oil giant BP.
“Instead of a lengthy battery charge, BP’s Liquid Electrolyte Transference System (LETS) innovates with a “special drain plug” that allows “depleted” fluid to be quickly replaced with fresh and fully charged liquid.”
The Car Connection also featured a handy compendium of all the automotive based April Fool’s gags around the Web.