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  • Tesla, Subaru drivers the worst in Michigan, according to new report

    Tesla, Subaru drivers the worst in Michigan, according to new report

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    Michigan’s tech bros and lesbians apparently have one thing in common: they’re bad at driving.

    According to the recent “2024 Michigan Driver Report” by Lending Tree, Tesla and Subaru drivers top the list for traffic incidents in the state. With 23.4 incidents per 1,000 drivers, these trending brands outrank Ram, BMW, and Infiniti for accidents and violations.

    The report, which analyzed data from 25 cities, highlights the best and worst drivers across vehicle brands, large cities, and generations.

    Among the findings, Dearborn Heights has the worst drivers, with nearly 11 incidents per 1,000 drivers.

    Other cities where you might want to be careful on the roads include Waterford Township, Taylor, Dearborn, and Novi.

    On the other hand, Sterling Heights has the best drivers, with just four incidents per 1,000 drivers.

    Unfortunately, this doesn’t translate to lower insurance rates, as Sterling Heights residents face an average annual rate of $7,242, far above the state average of $4,638 for full coverage.

    Rochester Hills, Macomb Township, Pontiac, and Flint also ranked among cities with the best drivers.

    And as far as brands, drivers of Pontiac, Saturn, Mitsubishi, Cadillac, and Chrysler vehicles rank among the best in the state.

    Age is another important factor in the study, with Gen Z drivers topping the list for the most incidents — 36.71 per 1,000 drivers — while Millennials follow with 17.08. Baby Boomers, meanwhile, are the safest on the road, with just over 11.5 incidents per 1,000 drivers.

    Despite the variation in driving habits, insurance rates remain high across Michigan due to the state’s no-fault insurance system, with full-coverage premiums averaging $4,638 annually and liability-only coverage at $1,849.

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  • Lawsuit filed after field trip goes horribly wrong at Auburn Hills test track

    Lawsuit filed after field trip goes horribly wrong at Auburn Hills test track

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    A Ford car crashed into a guardrail where elementary children had gathered for a vehicle demonstration at a test track in Auburn Hills in July 2023.

    The parents of two elementary school children who were severely injured when a car violently struck them during a vehicle demonstration at a test track in Auburn Hills in July 2023 filed a lawsuit Monday.

    The lawsuit was filed in Oakland County Circuit Court against Continental Automotive Systems, Ford Motor Co., the Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP), and the driver, Linus Gugino.

    The students were lined up “extremely close to the vehicle and the track,” which is owned by Continental Automotive Systems, when the driver “rapidly accelerated the car in a negligent and/or reckless manner and lost control, plowing into the guardrail and violently striking the children watching the track from behind it,” according to the lawsuit filed by Marko Law, PLLC, and Scott Goodwin Law, P.C.

    “The collision was so violent that the vehicle flipped over on its roof,” the lawsuit states.

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    Elijah Gibson was severely injured and hospitalized.

    Elijah Gibson, who was 8 at the time, and Lavell McGee, who was 10, were seriously injured and hospitalized. Gibson sustained fractures across his legs, a massive gash to his left foot, and a traumatic brain injury. He received multiple surgeries. McGee sustained serious injuries to his legs and head. They suffer from memory and other cognitive issues, according to the lawsuit.

    “The children and their families have also suffered extreme pain and suffering, emotional suffering and distress, greatly reduced mobility and physical capacity, and medical expenses,” a news release states.

    The vehicle demonstration was part of DAPCEP’s STEM summer camp.

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    Lavell McGee with serious injuries at a hospital.

    “This is a horrible case,” attorney Jon Marko said. “Our children should be able to go on field trips without the parents having to worry that they will be placed next to a high-speed test car and run over. And that’s what happened here. No one involved in hosting or promoting this demonstration took the simplest steps to keep the kids there safe. Everyone involved in putting on this event and bringing people to it had a duty to keep these children safe. It’s sickening knowing what happened to Elijah and Lavell, and that they’ll have to live with the consequences for the rest of their lives.”

    The lawsuit alleges negligence and willful and wanton misconduct, among other accusations.

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  • Detroit is one of the most dangerous U.S. cities for pedestrians, study finds

    Detroit is one of the most dangerous U.S. cities for pedestrians, study finds

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    Be safe walking in Detroit. Don’t forget to look both ways when you cross the street.

    The Motor City was just named one of the most dangerous U.S. cities for pedestrians, according to a study from The Texas Law Dog, w website for personal injury cases.

    The study researched cities’ pedestrian fatality rates, walkability, accidents involving pedestrians, and percentage of parks and recreational spaces. A final score was calculated to rank the cities.

    Memphis took the top spot, followed by Oklahoma City, Charlotte, and Fort Worth.

    Detroit came in fifth, with the third-highest pedestrian fatality rate of 5.8 per 100,000 people and just 6% of its area dedicated to parks and recreational spaces. However, Detroit has a higher walkability score than any other city on the list of the 10 worst cities.

    The full study reveals that Washington, D.C.; New York City; and San Francisco are the least dangerous U.S. cities for pedestrians.

    We could do better.

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  • EV industry praises federal investments in Michigan

    EV industry praises federal investments in Michigan

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    Michigan’s electric vehicle industry is praising the Biden administration for its latest investments in EV manufacturing and innovation.

    About $650 million will go toward retooling auto plants in Lansing and Marysville to produce newer EV models. The funding is part of the Inflation Reduction Act, going to Michigan and seven other states to make more EVs.

    Sophia Schuster, policy principal for the Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council, said the money should help the state fight “brain drain.” She noted Michigan is 49th in the U.S. in population growth since 1990.

    “I think it’s exciting to show that investments like these not only encourage people to stay and come in (to) Michigan but that there is a lot of potential for the clean energy workforce,” Schuster explained. “Particularly in the auto manufacturing space.”

    In Michigan, the plans are expected to retain more than 1,000 jobs and create a few dozen new ones. Billions of dollars have already been spent during the Biden administration to reduce vehicle emissions and combat climate change. Transportation is the top source of emissions in the U.S.

    Jane McCurry, executive director of the trade group Clean Fuels Michigan, said it is an exciting time to be in the renewable energy industry. Public and private dollars are also pouring into EV chargers, zero-emission school buses, and other alternative mobility sources. She argued it will ultimately give consumers more choices.

    “No matter what your choice is, you know that you can fuel it in your community, on your commute, on your way up north for vacation,” McCurry emphasized. “That is where public dollars come in, is making sure that people can get everywhere they need and want to go within Michigan in a safe, efficient, effective, enjoyable way.”

    Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has set a statewide goal of building 100,000 EV chargers in the state by 2030, enough to support 2 million vehicles.

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  • Detroit’s Grand Prix to include EDM sets by Illenium and JVNA

    Detroit’s Grand Prix to include EDM sets by Illenium and JVNA

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    Gentlemen, start your engines.

    The annual Detroit Grand Prix Indycar race is gearing up to return to the downtown streets this weekend, and it will do so with a pair of free electronic dance music performances for attendees on Saturday.

    California-based Jana Ma, aka JVNA, will perform at 6:15 p.m., while Denver’s Illenium will take the stage at 8 p.m.

    The shows will take place at the Cadillac Square stage, east of Campus Martius.

    The event is set for Friday, May 31-Sunday, June 2, with a track constructed along Jefferson Avenue downtown — so unless you’re going downtown to enjoy Indycar racing (and/or EDM), you will probably want to avoid the area due to traffic.

    The Detroit event dates back to 1982 as a Formula One World Championship event. Beginning in 1992, the race was moved to Belle Isle State Park (much to the consternation of park goers who prefer idyllic nature over the roar of cars) and it returned to the streets of downtown Detroit last year to fanfare.

     

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  • Tesla’s Autopilot drove car into tree, killing Colorado man in fiery crash, lawsuit alleges

    Tesla’s Autopilot drove car into tree, killing Colorado man in fiery crash, lawsuit alleges

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    Hans Von Ohain and Nora Bass (Photo via lawsuit filed by MLG Attorneys at Law)

    Tesla’s advanced Autopilot driving system malfunctioned and caused one of the electric car maker’s Colorado employees to drive off the road and die in a fiery crash, a newly filed wrongful death lawsuit alleges.

    The widow of Hans Von Ohain says her husband was driving back from golfing in Evergreen with a friend on May 16, 2022, when the Autopilot system “unexpectedly caused the 2021 Tesla Model 3 to sharply veer to the right, leading it off the pavement” on Upper Bear Creek Road.

    The 33-year-old Von Ohain, who was intoxicated, fought to regain control of the vehicle, “but, to his surprise and horror,” the car drove off the road and into a tree, where it burst into flames, according to the 16-page complaint filed May 3 in Clear Creek County District Court.

    The Colorado State Patrol said in its 403-page crash report that the car’s condition after the crash made it impossible to access data to determine whether the self-driving feature was engaged at the time.

    But the passenger in the car, Erik Rossiter, who suffered injuries in the crash, told investigators that Von Ohain was using the autonomous drive feature on the trip home, according to the CSP’s final report.

    “It was uncomfortable,” he told troopers. “The car would swerve off toward the side of the road periodically and bring itself back.”

    The vehicle was traveling 41 mph at the time of the crash, just above the 40 mph speed limit, according to the CSP report.

    Von Ohain also used the self-driving feature on the way to the golf course, Rossiter said — a trip he called “a bit nerve-wracking.”

    An autopsy report showed the driver’s blood-alcohol level at three times the legal limit. His widow, Nora Bass, told the Washington Post in February that she had been unable to find an attorney to take the case due to his intoxication.

    “Regardless of how drunk Hans was, (Tesla CEO Elon) Musk has claimed that this car can drive itself and is essentially better than a human,” Bass told the newspaper. “We were sold a false sense of security.”

    Efforts by The Denver Post to reach Bass or her attorney were unsuccessful.

    If Von Ohain was, in fact, using the Full Self-Driving feature, it would make his death the first known fatality involving Tesla’s most advanced driver-assistance technology, the Washington Post reported.

    Bass and her attorneys allege Tesla knowingly released the self-driving system in vehicles when it was just a prototype and unready for consumers.

    Tesla did not respond to messages from The Post seeking comment. Von Ohain worked for the Texas-based carmaker as a recruiter.

    Federal regulators have logged more than 900 crashes in Teslas since they began requiring automakers to report accidents in 2021 involving driver-assistance systems, the Washington Post found. At least 40 resulted in serious or fatal injuries.

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  • Police return Highland Park man’s beloved Thunderbird after he accused the city of stealing it

    Police return Highland Park man’s beloved Thunderbird after he accused the city of stealing it

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    Highland Park Police returned a resident’s 1985 Ford Thunderbird on Thursday after he accused the city of stealing his beloved car.

    Bob Nelson says he’s grateful but still angry.

    “There is still too much shit that doesn’t add up with this car,” Nelson tells Metro Times.

    The city also waived hundreds of dollars in tow fees, which Nelson was unable to afford.

    On March 28, police stuck an orange tag on his Thunderbird, saying the car “may be impounded if it is not removed within 48 hours” because it lacked a license plate.

    But less than 48 hours later, while Nelson was planning on moving the car off the road outside his house on Geneva Street, a tow truck removed the Thunderbird, which belonged to his mom before she died on Thanksgiving. He recently towed the car from Ottawa County, where his mom had lived.

    Nelson says police didn’t bother to knock on his door or even try to determine who owned the car. Before towing a car, he insists police are required to run his vehicle identity number (VIN) on the Law Enforcement Information Network (LIEN) and claims that never happened or police would have seen he owned the car.

    “If they called the fucking VIN number in, they would have known it was my car,” Nelson says.

    Earlier this week, Troy’s Towing refused to release the car unless Nelson paid $245 for the tow, $15 for each day it was in storage, and $150 to tow the car back to his home.

    Nelson says he went broke towing the car from Ottawa County.

    Without the money to retrieve his car, Nelson was so upset he sought mental health counseling.

    “I was so pissed off that I wanted to do something crazy,” Nelson recalls. “How about give a motherfucker some due process? A city ordinance doesn’t supersede the Constitution.”

    Eventually, Nelson talked with police Chief James McMahon, who said the city wanted to help him retrieve his car. But first he needed the title, which Nelson knew was in one of dozens of boxes that he had hauled from his mom’s house.

    After he prayed, Nelson says he found the title in one of the boxes.

    At about 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, a flatbed tow truck, escorted by a police car with flashing lights, returned the car to the backyard of one of Nelson’s neighbors.

    “I’m grateful the police chief helped me,” Nelson says. “He could have tried to cover this up. But there are still too many unanswered questions.”

    Nelson says he suspects the car would still be in the tow yard if he didn’t speak up.

    “This car would still be sitting there if I didn’t raise hell,” he says.

    Nelson has reached out to an attorney and is considering suing the city.

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    Bob Nelson cleans up his block every spring, even though it’s dominated by blight and abandonment.

    “I read the Constitution,” Nelson says. “I know about the law. I want the city of Highland Park to compensate me for lost wages and the mental damage.”

    Meanwhile, like he does every spring, Nelson is cleaning up his block, which is dominated by blighted, abandoned homes. Across the street is a hulking, vacant school building that he says is owned by the Highland Park City Council president.

    “Why don’t they bother cleaning up this mess instead of taking my car? It makes no sense,” he says. “This is a fucked up street.”

    Metro Times couldn’t reach Highland Park officials for comment. Mayor Glenda McDonald referred questions to McMahon, who couldn’t be reached.

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  • Ethan Coen teams up with wife Tricia Cooke for road trip comedy ‘Drive-Away Dolls’

    Ethan Coen teams up with wife Tricia Cooke for road trip comedy ‘Drive-Away Dolls’

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    Margaret Qually and Geraldine Viswanathan eye the MacGuffin in the trunk.

    One of the many pleasures — and occasional frustrations — of the Coen Brothers is their predictable unpredictability. From the outset of their career — which began with the markedly dissimilar (and remarkably accomplished) quartet of Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller’s Crossing, and Barton Fink — Joel and Ethan Coen have refused to conform to anyone’s expectations other than their own.

    That principle has long guided the Coens’ work: More than 25 years ago, when I attended the junket for The Big Lebowski, the brothers were asked whether they fretted about following up the relatively naturalistic Fargo and its multi-Oscar-winning bona fides with a project so wildly different in tone. Ethan blithely dismissed any anxiety: “It might be a worry if we worked consistently in one genre, made one specific kind of movie and then leaped to something else. But that’s not the case with us. We do different kinds of movies, to the extent that this might disappoint or please people who had seen our previous movies. It’s never really an issue. In our minds, they’re all just too different.”

    Given such a defiantly iconoclastic approach, Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls therefore shouldn’t surprise, but even dedicated Coen-heads can be forgiven if they’re a bit taken aback by the comic thriller’s queer content and playfully exuberant sex — neither of which is evident in the filmmaker’s previous work. Because I purposely chose not to read about Drive-Away Dolls in advance, I found the centrality of lesbian culture in the film entirely unexpected, and an uncomfortable thought kept intruding: Is the presumably hetero Coen really the appropriate director for this material?

    As it turns out, I needn’t have worried: Coen’s wife, Tricia Cooke, although only credited as co-writer and editor because of Directors Guild rules, actually served as the film’s co-director, and despite their longtime marriage, she continues to identify as queer. As the couple explained in a joint MovieMaker interview last year, Cooke told Coen that she was a lesbian when he first asked her out, but they eventually established a polyamorous relationship, with both having other partners. Normally, this gossipy backstory wouldn’t have relevance in a review, but knowing that Cooke was a primary driver of Drive-Away Dolls helped mitigate my concerns over Coen’s potentially leering male gaze and the authenticity of its portrayal of the queer experience.

    Of course, Drive-Away Dolls isn’t particularly concerned with realism in either its farcical plot or its colorful details. Early in the proceedings, a comically wall-mounted dildo clues us in to the film’s fantastical bent: The phallus makes for an undeniably funny (and prescient) gag, but — and I’m speculating here! — it would also seem somewhat, um, impractical.

    Proudly featuring a trash aesthetic, the film consciously emulates the exploitation films of the ’60s and ’70s, with Cooke and Coen citing the works of John Waters, Russ Meyer and nudie specialist Doris Wishman as inspirations. (The filmmakers’ preferred title, Drive-Away Dykes, further speaks to its transgressive spirit.) Cooke foregrounds the film’s deliberate cheesiness with outlandishly over-the-top editing transitions, and enigmatic flashbacks periodically interrupt the main storyline with tackily retro psychedelic imagery. There’s a clear risk that some of these devices will read as simple filmmaking ineptitude, but once we recognize their winking intent, they add to the film’s parodic fun, which includes nods to Tarantino’s signature car-trunk shots and to the mysterious briefcases in Kiss Me Deadly and Pulp Fiction.

    In fact, this film’s briefcase — whose contents I’ll resist revealing — is the engine propelling Drive-Away Dolls. When Jamie (Margaret Qualley), a talkative, carefree Texan, cheats on lover Sukie (Beanie Feldstein), a volatile cop, she’s booted to the street. The newly homeless Jamie opportunistically seizes on uptight lesbian friend Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) and insists on accompanying her on a planned road trip from Philadelphia to Tallahassee, Florida. Quickly finding a “drive-away” car bound for their exact destination, they sign on to pilot the vehicle south and hit the road, but their seeming good luck proves a case of mistaken identity: The actual intended drivers — a pair identified collectively in the credits as the Goons (Joey Slotnick and C.J. Wilson) — arrive shortly after to pick up the car only to find it already gone. Dispatched by their apoplectic boss (Colman Domingo) to track the women and recover the vehicle, which has the aforementioned briefcase stowed in its trunk, the amusingly squabbling Goons begin a pursuit complicated by Jamie’s highly indirect path to Florida — a circuitous route largely planned around visits to lesbian bars, with the goal of getting glum, sex-deprived Marian laid.

    Although Drive-Away Dolls is the first narrative film that Ethan Coen has made without his brother (he also directed the 2022 documentary Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind, which recently began streaming on Amazon Prime), the film’s mix of comedy and crime obviously recalls such previous collaborations as Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Ladykillers, and, especially, The Big Lebowski. Cooke’s influence, however, seems clear, not just in the queer subject matter but also in the film’s engaging looseness, its free-spirited lack of inhibition. In that respect, the film harks back to the Coens’ earliest films, shot by Barry Sonnenfeld, which delighted in pushing hard at extremes in their formal inventiveness.

    But as much as I appreciated many aspects of Drive-Away Dolls — including abbreviated appearances by Pedro Pascal, Matt Damon, and an unbilled Miley Cyrus, and a droll performance by the seemingly ubiquitous and always exemplary Bill Camp — I ultimately found the film only fitfully funny. I did laugh uproariously at a confrontation between the Goons and a volcanically angry Sukie, who has no hesitation in narcing on her former girlfriend, but Drive-Away Dolls lacks the astonishingly sustained highs of the Coens’ best comedies (Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski), even if it avoids the lows of such misfires as Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers. Given the highly personal nature of humor, your own laugh mileage may vary, but the ride provided by Drive-Away Dolls remains worth taking.

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  • Zeds Dead, Mersiv to headline GRIDLIFE Midwest fest

    Zeds Dead, Mersiv to headline GRIDLIFE Midwest fest

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    A scene from GRIDLIFE Midwest 2023.

    Michigan’s GRIDLIFE Midwest motorsports and music festival has announced the lineup for its 2024 edition, set for Friday, June 7-Sunday, June 9 at Gingerman Raceway in South Haven.

    The bass-heavy lineup features headliners Zeds Dead and Mersiv, with support acts including Tape B, Barely Alive, Eazybaked, G-REX, A Hundred Drums, a b2b set from SuperAve and Heyz, and more.

    Dubbed “The Music Festival At High Speed,” GRIDLIFE combines electronic dance music with on-track motorsports exhibitions and a car show. The event is now in its 11th year.

    “As pioneers of the music and motorsports festival concept, the GRIDLIFE Midwest Festival authentically brings together the cultures of cars and music,” organizer Chris Stewart said in a statement. “It hosts dozens of nationally touring musical acts on Friday and Saturday nights, with non-stop motorsports on track all day, including the wheel-to-wheel GRIDLIFE Touring Cup, epic full-course drifting with some of the world’s best drivers, and the brutal speed of Time Attack in the NOS Energy TrackBattle Championship. Coupled with much more throughout the festival, it’s truly an experience like nowhere else in the world.”

    This year, the festival is also introducing the HPDE Beginner Single Sessions, where attendees can learn how to drive their own car on the track with the help of a driving instructor.

    Tickets and more information are available at gridlifemidwest.com.

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  • Detroiters are bad at driving, and the consequences are deadly

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    Detroit has some of the worst drivers in the U.S., a study found.

    Detroit, known for its automotive legacy, has garnered a less flattering accolade: Its drivers are terrible, and they’re killing a lot of people.

    A new study by Forbes Advisor ranks Detroit’s drivers as the third worst in the nation.

    The sobering analysis highlights a range of driving-related metrics, including fatal car crashes, speeding, drunk driving, and distracted drivers.

    Out of the 50 most populated cities in the nation, Detroit ranks second in the rate of fatal car crashes, with 19.76 per 100,000 residents. Only Memphis, Tennessee, had a higher rate at 24.18 per 100,000 residents.

    Detroit also ranks second in the rate of fatal car crashes involving a drunk driver (6.54 per 100,000 residents), second in the rate of fatal crashes involving speeding (6.8 per 100,000 residents), and second in the rate of people killed in fatal crashes (21.47 per 100,000 residents).

    According to the study, Albuquerque, New Mexico, has the worst drivers in the U.S., followed by Memphis. Tucson, Arizona, ranked fourth, and Kansas City, Missouri, ranked fifth.

    Not surprisingly, Detroit has the highest auto insurance rates in the country, though experts disagree on the reasons why.

    Auto insurance rates in Michigan were supposed to dramatically decline after state lawmakers and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer approved legislation in 2019 to combat the sky-high premiums. But the rates have remained high, and between 2023 and 2024, the average premiums in Detroit jumped 85%, from $3,067 to $5,687.

    “More dangerous driving leads to increased risk and higher insurance rates,” Forbes Advisor reported. “Getting speeding tickets, running red lights, texting while driving and other reckless behaviors all raise your chances of accidents and damage claims. This makes you a greater liability in the eyes of insurers.”

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  • Detroit’s Autorama to feature five generations of Batmobiles

    Detroit’s Autorama to feature five generations of Batmobiles

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    The Batmobiles on display at this year’s Autorama.

    Just as the character Batman has been rebooted and reimagined over the years, so has his trusty Batmobile, which might be the ultimate expression of hot rod culture. That was certainly the case in 2022’s The Batman, whose scrappy superhero drove a retro-inspired, souped-up muscle car. Among the more than 800 hot rods and custom cars that will be showcased in this year’s Autorama in March are five generations of the Batmobile, including the rides from the playful 1966 TV series starring Adam West, Tim Burton’s Batman Returns starring Michael Keaton in 1992, 1995’s Batman Forever with Val Kilmer, the 2005 “Tumbler” from Batman Begins starring Christian Bale, and 2017’s Justice League with Ben Affleck. This year’s show will also feature vehicles owned by the real-life daredevil Evel Kneivel, including his famous X2 Skyrocket, the Snake River Rocket Concept Trike, and the Formula Dragster, as well as GM’s 50 millionth car, a gold-plated 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air Coupe. There will also be celebrity guests including Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider and Noel G from the Fast & Furious series, as well as the Miss Autorama pin-up contest. And, as usual, the exhibitors will be competing for the Ridler Award — no, that Riddler!

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