Posts Tagged ‘Ford Evos’
Danke Schoen
You know, it’s impossible for me to write “Danke Schoen” without trilling “Danke Schoen, daaaarling, Danke Schoen” to myself. Hopefully, no one else can hear me.
Anyway, Danke Schoen is meant for all the good people that The Washington Auto Show delegation got to meet and greet at the Frankfurt Motor Show last week. Sorry if you’ve been following this blog with eager anticipation for up-to-the-minute reactions about the show. But this is a p.r. agency, not a newspaper. Barbara still has jet lag.
Moving on. The senior delegation from our show, which included D.C. city officials, met with lots of heavyweights in the auto industry, in other words, our movers and shakers met with other movers and shakers. We even had the honor to meet U.S. Consul General Edward Alford at the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt. Our team also reconnected with friends from Better Place, which provides services and networks for EVs, and met up with leaders of OEMs and their major suppliers and partners, like Johnson Controls.
The bottom line of all this shmoozing comes down to this: we’ve successfully amped up our presence to hopefully draw all the right players — the trailblazers and rump shakers (sorry, just seeing if you’re paying attention) — to the 2012 Washington Auto Show. You see, we want to transform this industry to bring about a world where personal transportation is clean and green. At stake is nothing less than our health, environment and national security, not to mention our economic edge. To make that happen, we need political leadership and legislative muscle. And because of our show’s address — ahem, Washington — we are uniquely poised to join policy and industry together to expedite great progress.
That said, here’s a pic with, from left to right, Tom Kowaleski, VP of BMW Group Corporate Communications of North America, D.C. City Councilmember David Catania, Washington Auto Show Manager and dearest friend Bob Yoffe and Councilmember Vincent Orange.
And here’s a shot of that highly-anticipated Ford Evos, we talked about earlier. Remember the one Ford thinks will seduce us?
