Highlights from the 2010 Detroit Auto Show.

Highlights Smilights! What about "Lowlights" from the 2010 Detroit Auto Show? We all make mistakes, and some automakers at 2010 NAIAS proved that all too well.

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What's special about it? It's a Buick with a suede-covered flat-bottom steering wheel, dude. How much more special do you want? With the former excitement-bringer Pontiac out of the way, GM is beginning to load the Buick lineup with Euro-engineered product. The LaCrosse, based on the surprisingly competent, designed-in-Europe Epsilon II platform, is the first of the non-flaccid Buicks. This curious turn for the old brand has been further promoted by the recent announcement that the rebadged Opel Insignia would be the next Buick Regal and will be offered with a turbocharged engine and a — gasp! — manual transmission.

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Hyundai Blue Will Concept at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show.

What a difference seven years make. It was at the Detroit auto show in 2003 that Cadillac last unveiled a full-size luxury sedan concept, the outrageous Sixteen, a fantastical 1,000-horsepower vision intended to evoke the grandest of grand days for the company some 70 years prior.