For Cars.com’s team of automotive journalists (and, let’s face it, most everyone we talked to) covering the 2019 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, this year’s Motor City motor show felt like a bit of a dud. Not very many new-model debuts, one solitary European automaker participating (and even then, it was a pretty snoozy bow by the new 2020 Volkswagen Passat), and just a general air of eating at a restaurant after it announced that it’s closing at the end of the week — because it kinda was. But amid all that disappointment were some real, legitimate surprises that gave the show the shot in the arm it desperately needed.
Notable highlights
- ${price_badge()}
- ${cpo_badge()}
- ${hot_car_badge()}
- ${home_delivery_badge()}
- ${virtual_appointments_badge()}
- ${award_badge()}
- ${href_to_vdp()}
