Auto trade elite, efficiency fanatics, and creditors donning pastel linen fits, floral jumpers, fascinators and fedoras accrued on California’s central coast for Monterey Automotive Life to respect each used and brandnew sheet steel exhibitions.
Amid bellowing V-8 engines and eye-watering wafts of tailpipe exhaust, something is cloudless: American citizens’ love for gasoline-powered vehicles is alive and smartly some of the rich.
However in spite of the affluent prosperous historical past and function on show, electrical cars shared an similarly glorious highlight at this week’s party — from unique hypercars to spaceship-shaped cruisers to boxy child haulers — taking the storied match into the latter strike of life and past.