Packed with families, car shoppers, and car enthusiasts, the biggest auto show in the Midwest came back to life at McCormick Place this weekend. Organizers said ticket sales were up 40% from last year.
Darrin Brown, 55, visited the car show from Montgomery in the Western Suburbs to look at the electric vehicles. The telecommunications data worker said he drives all over the continent for his work and has to fill his gas tank three to four times a week. He says that he has put 253,000 miles on his Town & Country Chrysler over the last seven years. ]
Over at the BMW electric vehicle test track, 33-year-old supply chain specialist Tim Wissel said he was also in the market to buy an electric vehicle. Though he works from home, Wissel said he used to drive long distances for his job and put nearly 100,000 miles on his Toyota Prius over the course of four years.Wissel, of Rolling Meadows, said he is looking forward to purchasing the iX but not at the moment. Wissel said he wants to buy the car after a couple of years and wait for new upgrades.
Mandi said she liked the car show because even though it can have “the feeling of a dealership,” it didn’t have the pressure of a car salesperson who wants to sell you a car right then and there. She said she also was interested in learning more about the amenities and the pastel colors that cars come in that aren’t normally at a regular dealership.Kids play in the artificial snow falling on an electric Nissan Ariya at the Chicago Auto Show on Feb. 12, 2023.
She also said that while Chicago’s car show is bigger, Detroit’s car shows have more of a hometown feeling because of the jobs the car industry brings to the city.,
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