The new Fiesta will be shown at the Los Angeles auto show this week.

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Which is why the Los Angeles Auto Show, which opened late last week, makes an excellent place for spotting trends.

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First Impressions: I drove the four-door Honda Accord EX-L NAVI during my visit to the Los Angeles Auto Show in late November.

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Similarly, GM will unveil the new Chevrolet Spark EV at the Los Angeles Auto Show later this month, and the model will hit the showrooms in early 2013.

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At the Los Angeles Auto Show this week Mercedes-Benz has unveiled its Ener-G-Force concept SUV, a seven-passenger giant expected get 550 horsepower and 560 pound-feet of torque.

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Plus, I drove a white one at the Los Angeles Auto Show (and earlier for the New York Times in New York) and I like the way it performs.

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Last week at the Los Angeles Auto Show Porsche unveiled the 2014 edition of the Cayman, a totally re-engineered whip that is lighter, faster, more efficient and more powerful than its predecessor.

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The Los Angeles Auto Show opens this week.

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There is another Buick, called the Lucerne, a throwback small wagon called the Chevy HHR and a redesigned Chevy Impala that was not received warmly at its introduction at last year's Los Angeles auto show.

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The company announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show that the U.S. version of its Mazda 6 midsize sedan, which got a major redesign for the 2014 model year, will offer a new four-cylinder diesel engine, in addition to a conventional four-cylinder gasoline engine.

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