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MuttGrunt
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Re: 2009 Detroit International Auto Show (worst of show)

^ not exactly. the pink stuff is their quick detailer. they also gave some of the pretty-much-useless union "car polishers" (as they call them) hyper dressing and glass cleaner.
i got hired by a company that goes show-to-show-to-show (they do around 60-80 a year) through the useless union as they needed help getting things ready and wanted someone who knew what they were doing.
glass cleaner seems to be the preferred cleaning product because it helps to get things off and leaves no residue which would make the finger-print problem even worse. i can tell you the companies there are somewhere between a good weekend washer and the lower levels of autopia - they kinda know what they're doing, but don't know enough behind the science of it all/have to do LOTS of cars in a short period of time/the peopel that hire them don't know the difference.
things seem to have been slower, but i kinda like the lower budget: no more massive walls everywhere. when u go to GM - u can see all their brands easily and walk over to any section you want. same with honda/acura, ford, toyota/scion/lexus, etc, etc.
turns out when the cars are done being shown (some go from show to show such as models soon to come out, or concepts), they are given to various dealers who then sell them like a normal car. this is good and bad. those car that are better looked after (the concepts/soon-to-be-released vehicles) are usually fairly "clean." of course if u got to actually look around the inside of the Lexus IS250C Convertable (red one on the turn-table) you'd see all kinds of marks on the leather, skuffs on the door ledge, etc. or the Subaru Legacy Concept which has a couple paint defects, and some scratches (from what looks like dirt/junk trapped on a MF towel). those are just two examples as i got to work closely with both models
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