2022 Detroit Auto Show: Everything We Think We'll See
Image: Ford
There hasn’t been a true North American International Auto Show since January 2019. After that show concluded, event organizers decided to move the show; the 2020 event was slated for June of that year. But of course, by the time summer 2020 came around, the world was a very different place.
The wait is due to end next month. After a limited outdoor event last September called Detroit Motor Bella, the North American International Auto Show will return in something resembling its original form on September 14. The event will be held both indoors and out at multiple locations — Huntington Place, Hart Plaza and in downtown Detroit — and will open to the public for a week starting Saturday, September 17.
Below we’ve compiled everything we expect to see at the show. As of August 25th, that admittedly isn’t much. Expect updates as we learn more.
2023 Ford Mustang
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At the moment, there’s only one debut confirmed for the Detroit Auto Show: The 2023 “S650″ Ford Mustang. This will mark the legendary pony car’s first comprehensive redesign in seven years, and rumors suggest Ford may even introduce a hybrid, all-wheel-drive Mustang for the very first time. This is likely to be the last internal combustion-powered Mustang — and thus, the last with a manual transmission — so suffice it to say there’s plenty of hype behind it.
The seventh-generation ’Stang will be built at the Blue Oval’s Flat Rock Assembly Plant, as the company announced in June. The launch is scheduled for September 14 at 8 p.m. Eastern time, and you can expect it to be live-streamed, so you won’t have to be on the ground in the Motor City to get a peek.
… And That’s It!
No, seriously — have you seen the prospective Day 1 press conference schedule for the show? It’s not looking particularly exciting at the moment:
Amid a crowd of suppliers, Jeep, Chevrolet, Hyundai and Ford are the only major automakers with press conferences scheduled on the busiest media day of the show. That could change, of course, but with the start of the show roughly 20 days away, this might be exactly what we get. After all, the pandemic forced the auto industry (and lots of other non-automotive industries) to figure out how to reveal new products via streaming online announcements, a trend we’re also seeing in the tech and gaming sectors.
The 2023 Jeep “B-SUV,” which you will not see in Detroit.Image: Stellantis
Now Jeep, Chevrolet and Hyundai certainly have new models on the horizon. But we either already know about them, or they’re expected to debut elsewhere. The forthcoming (and so far nameless) Jeep Renegade replacement, seen above, will bow in Paris in October. The all-electric Blazer and Silverado may show up in the flesh at the Detroit show — perhaps joined by the Equinox, which was last teased at CES in January 2022 — but of course we already know what those look like. Ditto for the Hyundai Ioniq 6.
All this is to say, we don’t have much to go on yet. But we will update this article as soon as we catch wind of any Detroit unveilings we can really sink our teeth into. The best kind of unveilings!
