ANSA Productions (LA Auto Show)

Well, clearly it's not AI, but it's so unrealistic that it really looks like AI.

My thing is we've got the LA Auto Show in the LA Convention Center, like one of the premier shows in the automotive industry.

And every car manufacturer brings their wildly crazy concept cars that never really make it to market.

Tesla doesn't do that.

So that's an example of being taken seriously.

So to get that deal with Lotus, Martin and I went to the LA Auto Show, uh, and we had heard...

This is before we had funding, you know.

So we had...

We were working on the business plan.

The LA Auto Show is January-ish or February or December or something.

And we went down there, and, uh, we knew that Lotus was gonna show there, and we heard, uh, f- that there might be people from Lotus that weren't just salespeople there.

So you go to the LA Auto Show, and they have, you know, the cars, and there's the salespeople out in front that talk about the car.

Like, if...

I thought the LA Auto Show's arrangement was stupid and confusing, this is worse.

This is much worse, yeah.

All right.

Hey, today's guest, Andy Steinhauser, has become a great friend.

Last year, we went to LA Automobility, which is kind of the press and media day before the big LA Auto Show, and had such a blast that we're going back next year.

We have a partnership with Sotocon West to make sure our Sotocon West dealers go to this event the very next day and hang out as well.

So we hope you enjoy this conversation we have with the Always lively, Andy Steinhauser.

Actually, that's probably prepped you better for your career as a cruise director than any of the math classes, right? literally it maps exactly to what you were rallying the team making sure that the team was

lines to your current role too because i'm sure they're coming you know what i'm saying let's talk about the

current role so we we were very fortunate to connect with you all and visit our first la automobility show last year and and see a little bit of the bigger show and this year we're we're going we're coming back because we're coming back time and we're tying it in to our auto week on west auto week we're trying to get all of our people to say hey like come over check out what's going on over at automobility and if you're like really like the show like stay for the show a lot of dealers and gms they love cars and that preview day but let's talk about the relationship between the la auto show and automobility because they're together but there's some unique identity in the automobility day we felt comfortable there because it was like a press day it was like a behind the scenes yeah but why don't you give us a little bit of the origin and what what ability actually is

Yeah, totally.

No, not a diesel.

Um, and I, I was at the launch of that in, in the LA Auto Show a couple of years ago.

Mm.

And I just stood there for I don't know how long and just...

I have not heard any, uh, updates on production.

The last time I spent any time with Slate was a- almost a year ago now at the Los Angeles Auto Show.

I went to their preview, uh, party, um, and they had a truck outside static.

My first chance to see it in person, my first chance to touch it, and it was clearly a prototype.

And that was the I-Pace.

The I-Pace was introduced at the 2016 LA Auto Show,

which is in

November.