South America, Day 8: Buenos Aires, Argentina (Part 2)

The last stop for the day's walking was El Salón del Automóvil 2011, the 5th Buenos Aires International Auto Show, conveniently located just a few blocks from my hostel. Awesome fun as always wandering around looking at the cars. I won't have many words here; just admire the pictures and read the captions.

First up, some classic cars:

Aston Martin DB6

Cord

Mercedes-Benz 300SL

And then we got to the meat of the show - the cars of today and tomorrow.

Ferrari 458 Italia

Ferrari 458 Italia

Peugeot SR1 concept. It doesn't look as much like a BMW 6 series in real life as it does in this picture, I promise.

Renault Dezir concept. The holes in the rear fender have color-changing lights, and just look at those "headlights"!

The interior of the Dezir is just as wild.

A Fiat 500 Gucci

Gucci-designed interior of the 500

Toyota FT-86 concept. I'd drive it.

Toyota FT-86

Toyota FT-EV electric concept car

The car that we ought to be driving to Alaska....

First auto show I've seen that had heavy trucks there too!

The "Drugstore" stand sells snacks. Eh?

I got excited until I saw the last letter was missing.

 There were also a few non-car things at the show. Several manufacturers had cut-away examples of their engines and transmissions on display, usually driven by a motor so you could see the parts in motion.

Renault engine display

Soooooo who wants to do another roadtrip?

 And of course, leave it to the Italians to spice things up. The last thing I saw in the evening was a set of performances by four opera singers (two tenors, a baritone, and a soprano) at the Fiat booth.