Ladies if you have never been to a car show then may I suggest you high tail it to the next one that comes to town.  It’s pretty amazing to see what’s up and coming in the automotive world and not to mention fun (plus the place is just swirling with men!).

I was lucky enough to be a guest of General Motors at the Los Angeles Car show a couple weeks ago.  Myself and other green bloggers (Hank Green of EcoGeek.org, Justin McHale of Planet Green/Treehugger.com and Nick Aster of Triple Pundit.com and the magazine Mother Jones), along with a number of auto-bloggers, were given the opportunity to preview most of GM’s vehicles before the show opened to the public.  This gave us a chance to get up close and personal with the cars and the team of engineers.

While walking around with all the guys and doing some comparative shopping, one of the guys actually said it must be hard writing about cars for women?  I giggled (like a girl) only because I felt the question was a little awkard.  Was he implying women could car less about cars because we are….well women!

I told him no, actually it’s not, in case he hadn’t heard women buy cars too!  It was also pretty exciting to see two of GM’s engineers who were working on the hybrid technology and the battery for the Chevy Volt where women!!

The car show proved General Motors is the leader in automotive technology.  In fact I had heard from a luxury car maker that many are waiting to see what GM comes up with as far as alternative fuels ESPECIALLY concerning the Chevy Volt (an all electric car).  GM is putting the most money into research and development.  Say what you want about coporate giants like GM, but we have to recognize that the building industry and transportation are the two largest contributors to global warming so we need to be happy when they join the environmental agenda.  Besides the Chevy Tahoe Hybrid didn’t win Green Car Journal’s Green Car of the Year 2008 for no reason!

(In case you’re wondering who judged the competition it was a very distinguished panel.)

I’m not surprised they won considering they had the most cars nominated out of any car maker.

As much as we would like to see less cars on the roads, lets face it that’s not going to happen anytime soon.  So all we can do is make sure the vehicles we are buying are the most fuel efficient if not fuel free (the Volt will be!), because at the risk of sounding too girly there are so many other things I could be spending my gas money on….like shoes!