Corey Williams
In a photo from May 6, 2021, Timothy Tharp with patrons Cecelia Shelley, center, and Amber Nolan, at his Checker Bar in downtown Detroit. Tharp also owns Grand Trunk Pub and the Whisky Parlor. He estimates that his businesses have lost about $1 million after closures caused by the coronavirus pandemic. But now as vaccinations increase and government-ordered lockdowns and restrictions to protect the public are being lifted, Tharpe believes the coronavirus pandemic could be remembered as just another hurdle the Motor City has had to leap. (AP Photo/Corey Williams) May 17, 2021 - 2:02 PM
DETROIT (AP) â Timothy Tharp has owned businesses in Detroit long enough to remember when parts of downtown resembled a ghost town. Heâs also seen its resurgence with new restaurants, hotels and throngs of people since the city s emergence from bankruptcy.
Ford GT
This one’s as obvious as the day is long, which is why we’re leading our list with it. Ford pulled the wraps off its second-generation supercar at the North American International Auto Show in 2015. A showcase for its EcoBoost engine and other engineering prowess, the GT promised more than 600 horsepower and an infusion of racing technology. Not a concept car set to be watered down by production concessions, the blue bomb on display was pretty much the real thing. Few who were in attendance or were watching online that day will forget the on-stage presentation which ended with a seemingly rhetorical “When should we build it?” answered with a “How about next year?”
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Now here you go again/ You say you want your freedom
Well, who am I to keep you down? Fleetwood Mac
Many, many of us are missing auto shows. The buzz, the noise, the shiny, the new, the amazing, the crowds oh yeah, the crowds. Setting up a great shot with your camera, and some little ankle-biter jumps in front of it at the last second. Dragging your spouse along with you whether they like it or not. Realizing after you’ve definitely settled on getting a new Camry, you spy some early tease of what the
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April 30, 2021 at 12:00 pm
We always talk about the ones that got away the concept cars that inspired the public yet never got made. Cars like the Chrysler ME Four-Twelve or the Nissan IDx, lifted by mountains of hype that their respective automakers simply couldn’t transform into something real. History is littered with them. It’s sick.
But that’s not what we’re talking about this time. Rather, today’s question is about quite the opposite: What concept car should never have graduated to production, yet did anyway?
Google any list of the worst cars ever made and it’s guaranteed the Pontiac Aztek is destined to feature. What some may not know is that the Aztek actually began life as a concept that debuted at the 1999 North American International Auto Show. I’ll submit that the prototype seen above looked
Welcome to Cars Of Future Past, a weekly series here at Jalopnik where we flip through the pages of history to explore long-forgotten concepts and how they had a hand in shaping the cars we know today.