{"id":35584,"date":"2026-01-21T13:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=35584"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:49:24","slug":"payne-the-dandy-dozen-detroit-auto-show-2026-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/payne-the-dandy-dozen-detroit-auto-show-2026-highlights","title":{"rendered":"Payne: The Dandy Dozen, Detroit Auto Show 2026 highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Detroit<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Brave the ice outside, come see the ICE inside the 2026 Detroit Auto Show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After years of taking a backseat to electric vehicles as automakers strained to meet government emissions and gas mileage mandates, the internal combustion engine is back inside Huntington Place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">From muscle cars to trucks to off-road dirt-kickers, ICE vehicles are the stars of the show. Even Aston Martin brought a quartet of its greatest ICE hits. Not that EVs have gone away. General Motors Co. is still bullish, with electrics fronting the Chevy display \u2014 and you can take test rides on a dedicated EV track.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/01\/19\/PDTN\/88254009007-best-in-show-huntingtonplace.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"2026 Detroit Auto Show - Huntington Place\" width=\"545\" height=\"307\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\">2026 Detroit Auto Show &#8211; Huntington Place<\/div>\n<p>Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/detroit-auto-show\/2026\/01\/20\/payne-the-dandy-dozen-detroit-auto-show-2026-highlights\/88252207007\/\">Read full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit\u00a0\u2014 Brave the ice outside, come see the ICE inside the 2026 Detroit Auto Show. After years of taking a backseat to electric vehicles as automakers strained to meet government emissions and gas mileage mandates, the internal combustion engine is back inside Huntington Place. From muscle cars to trucks to off-road dirt-kickers, ICE vehicles are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35587,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35584\/revisions\/35587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}