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2005 Chicago Auto Show; Luxury cars take center stage.(News)(Brief Article)

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| February 14, 2005 | Gritzinger, Bob | COPYRIGHT 2005 Crain Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: BOB GRITZINGER

This year's Chicago auto show, open to the public Feb. 11-20, gets bigger physically, thanks to a 369,000-square-foot addition to the McCormick Place. This is good, considering the trucks and sport/utes on display there are growing ever larger (more on those next week and on autoweek.com).

Several cars make this year's show significant to enthusiasts, including Honda's little rocket (above) and the Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG (AW, Jan. 31). Others carry significant importance to company bottom lines back in Detroit: General Motors' latest luxury liners, the 2006 Buick Lucerne (top) and the 2006 Cadillac DTS (middle); and the 2006 Milan (bottom), a premium midsizer from Ford's Mercury division.

Lucerne, a front-driver that replaces the perennially strong-selling LeSabre, offers a V8-a first for a Buick car ...

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