Hasta La Ideas

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pI’m at a press event in San Francisco where, last night, Volkswagen Group’s Head of Design Walter de Silva and others took the wraps off the new 2011 Jetta. (More on this to come in future entries.) /p

pThey unveiled the car on a rotating dais on the terrace of the St. Regis hotel–which is on the 4th floor. So how the heck did they get it up there? Like this:/p

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