STREETWISE

BY MARYANN N. KELLER

PARIS SHOWS ITS COLORS As a venue for new, exciting models or hightech innovations, the October 1990 Paris Auto Show didn’t get high marks. It seems to have come between major product launches for most auto makers, so most of the cars there had already been on the market for a while. However, the lack of attention-grabbing new models allowed some time for reflection on what’s going on in vehicle design among the world’s key players. It wasn’t too many years ago that you could tell the national origin of a car just by looking at it. Japanese brands were the easiest to spot, not just because they were always clustered together in the distant recesses of the huge Porte de Versailles complex. (The French have strict limits on the number of…

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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 1991

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