Last week, I was given an opportunity to check out the Canadian AutoShow at the Toronto Convention Centre. It was my first time at the AutoShow and walking into the convention centre was quite an amazing. Usually when you go to a trade show, you are faced with rows and rows of booths from different companies, but of course being the automotive industry, their wares are a little larger than what would fit in a regular 10 x 10 booth. Needless to say my mind was a little blown by the enormity of the Auto Show spanning across both the North and South Convention Centre floors.
In the past couple of weeks, Ford Canada has been trying to make an impression on the social networks and they kicked it off with a #FordBlue Party at Liberty Grande. It was your usual Brand party, with flowing drinks, delicious food and prizes and other activities for it’s guests, as well as a room full of cars for people to pawn over. You can see my pictures over here.
Then last week, I was asked by Ford to come out to media day at the Autoshow to shoot their cars for their new Flickr stream. It was a super fun experience and it was great getting into the AutoShow and taking pictures without the swarms of people getting in your way. In total, I ended up uploading 461 photos from the Ford and Lincoln areas at the Autoshow. Shooting the cars on the floor and various fun details on the cars. Let’s just say that Ford has a lot of vehicles in their 2013 lineup.
Their big media reveal was their 2013 Ford Fusion. But from chatting with others online, there seemed to be a lot of interest surrounding the 2013 Shelby GT500. Personally though, as much as a sporty car and a compact car are pretty nifty, If I was gonna pick up a new vehicle it would probably be more along the lines of the 2013 Ford Escape. Luckily, after I uploaded all my photos to flickr, some magical elf went into the account and put all the cars into various photo sets, so you too can see take a peak at your favourite Ford models.
Of course, the Autoshow has been running all week and comes to a conclusion this Sunday. We’ve got a pair of tickets for you to check out the Autoshow first had, courtesy of @FordCanada. I’ll be drawing for the tickets tonight at Midnight.
