SEATTLE AUTO SHOW presents the 2014 cars and more

 

The annu­al Seat­tle Auto Show cel­e­brates 90 years of pre­sent­ing the auto indus­try’s newest mod­els for 2014. Over 500 cars, trucks, vans, SUV’s, crossovers, exotics and super­cars will be dis­played Octo­ber 16–20 at Seat­tle’s Cen­tu­ryLink Events Center.

 

The Seat­tle Auto Show,  pre­sent­ed by State Farm and spon­sored by AutoTrader.com, BECU and the Seat­tle Times, is gear­ing up for its biggest show in years.

 

“We’ve added twen­ty per­cent more space and we’re com­plete­ly sold out,” says long­time exec­u­tive direc­tor and show man­ag­er Jim Ham­mond. “We’ve got the lat­est mod­els from the car mak­ers of the world, plus we’ve added some new fea­tures that are very exciting.”

 

At the top of the new fea­tures line­up is a “show with­in a show” from LeMay – America’s Car Muse­um. A new dis­play set­up in the North Hall of the Cen­tu­ryLink Field Event Cen­ter will house a stun­ning array of clas­sic vehi­cles that spans the his­to­ry of the motorcar.

 

 

A coun­ter­point to the clas­sics will be an esti­mat­ed 500 new vehi­cles – cars, trucks, vans, crossovers, SUV’s, hybrids and electrics, exotics and super­cars. Many of the man­u­fac­tur­ers will be offer­ing test dri­ves of their cars and trucks, includ­ing Chevro­let, Buick, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Ford, GMC trucks, Jeep, Kia, Maz­da, Ram, Scion, Sub­aru and Toyota.

 

 

The exotics and super­cars will also be out in force, with show­stop­pers like Lam­borgh­i­ni, Jaguar, Fer­rari, Porsche, Maserati, Rolls Royce, Bent­ley, Lotus, Mer­cedes Benz, Tes­la and Aston Martin.

 

 

 

 

There will also be plen­ty of Amer­i­can mus­cle cars, includ­ing the 60^th Anniver­sary Corvette Stingray, the Ford Mus­tang, the Chevro­let Camaro, the Dodge Chal­lenger and the Cadil­lac ATS.

 

 

Thurs­day Octo­ber 17 will launch our first-ever Ladies Day,” says Ham­mond. “Admis­sion tick­ets will be dis­count­ed down to $10 for women, and we’ll have spe­cial demon­stra­tions and gifts from car main­te­nance experts like Griot’s Garage.”

 

 

Gri­ots Garage is also bring­ing the pride and joy of their exten­sive col­lec­tion of motor­ized clas­sics: the 1975 For­mu­la 1 Fer­rari 312T dri­ven by 3‑time F1 Cham­pi­on Niki Lau­da. Along for the ride is anoth­er of Griot’s favorites: a 1977 McLaren M23-12 For­mu­la 1 car dri­ven by Jochen Mass. Lau­da is fea­tured in the new movie “Rush” about two of the most fas­ci­nat­ing and suc­cess­ful F1 rac­ers. READ MORE HERE.

About RUSH, the movie, and Niki Lau­da, READ MORE HERE.

The Seat­tle Auto Show hours, direc­tions, admis­sions info and more are avail­able at seattleautoshow.com