1.   Why is Chrysler showing off a luxury concept car like this rather than a futuristic new Jeep or minivan?

2.   Also to be sold are the first concept cars for the revamped Thunderbird and the Lincoln Blackwood pickup.

3.   And how about the collection of fantasy concept cars that Chrysler keeps popping out like Christmas cookies?

4.   Another Chrysler concept car at the show, the Plymouth Pronto Spyder, uses the same materials concept to make the exotic midengine sports car affordable.

5.   As in, yes, Alero the concept car will translate into a production model.

6.   At the Lincoln display, a familiar name, the Continental, appears on a concept car with a fresh interpretation of a classic design.

7.   At the lunch at the Philadelphia Naval Yard, GM designers showed off the newest prototypes, called concept cars, for Hastert, an unabashed automobile buff.

8.   A concept car, as any car nut can tell you, is a prototype designed to shake up dusty, entrenched notions of car design.

9.   A couple of concept cars incorporate new applications for on-board computers.

10.   A rear-drive car called the XVL, which wore a Nissan badge in Tokyo, will appear in Detroit as an Infiniti concept car.