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May / June 2015 37 Manhattan Motors is the only dealership allowed to have a display at the NYIAS, and what a display it was: Koenigsegg Agera, Lamborghini Aventador, Bugatti Veyron and a Lamborghini Huracan!. to work for Chrysler? At the Ram truck display, we get chatted up by the attractive product specialist – she's a friend of Tico's too. At the specialty aftermarket area, Tico knows all the vendors – he did business with them all coordinating high-performance mods to new Chrysler products sold through the New York area dealers. Plus, he did a stint as Director of Sales for Hennessey Performance. As the VIP tour nears its end, we visit the Toyota exhibit where the new Supra concept car is on display. Clearly Toyota is trying hard to ditch its stodgy image with that one – hopefully they'll have the 'nards to actually take it to production. BMW has a couple of sweet vintage race cars. Mercedes shows off a startling high number of luxury cars with matte-finish paint. Really Mercedes? I'd prefer my $200,000 Benz with shiny paint, please. A quick stroll through the Acura display earns it our suggested new corporate slogan "Acura: The boring side of Honda." Then, back home to the Porsche display, where we find Adam chatting up the blonde Porsche product specialist behind the info desk – I did mention he was a young guy right out of college, right? Tico's got a couple of fires to put out, which gives us more time to ogle and photograph the new Spyder - and hear some war stories from the Porsche guys. And then, our VIP experience comes to an end. Tico's been at the NYIAS all week long, hasn't seen his wife and baby girl all week and is ready to get home and relax – for maybe 48 hours before he's back on duty. We say our goodbyes and heap gratuitous amounts of "Thank You's" on Tico and Mike. The last stop before Alex and I head out the door is the NYIAS souvenir stand. We buy t-shirts with this year's official NYIAS logo emblazoned across the chest: a logo that features my bright blue Koenigsegg from the Manhattan Motors exhibit. And if I look really closely at the car in the logo, I think I can just make out where some hick from Kansas City left a little cloud of fog on the inside of its windshield. - JEFF