SHOW NOTES: Live from the Detroit auto show

Matt Colson, of Lapeer, Mich., top, and Carlone English, of Detroit, prep a Chevrolet Silverado RST on Saturday in preparation for the North American International Auto Show. The show opens for media previews on Monday and some 4,500 credentialed journalists are expected, down slightly from just over 5,000 in 2018, show organizers say.

Kia plans a major marketing and media push for the all-new Telluride, a 3-row crossover, at the 2019 Detroit auto show at Cobo Center, including a separate, indoor display called the Kia Telluride Torque Track. The Telluride, Kia's largest crossover, will square off against the Ford Explorer, Toyota Highlander, Chevrolet Traverse and other large crossovers when it is expected to go on sale later this year.

-- David Phillips

The display for the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, one of the nation's top schools for automotive design, is readied on the concourse at Cobo Center on Friday. The 2019 Detroit auto show opens to the media on Monday Jan. 14 and to the public on Jan. 19.

-- David Phillips

The three finalists for North American Utility Vehicle of the Year -- the Acura RDX, Hyundai Kona and Jaguar I-Pace -- are prepped Friday at Cobo Center in Detroit before the winner is revealed Monday, Jan. 14. The RDX, Kona and I-Pace --  new or substantially redesigned -- beat out other candidates such as the Jeep Wrangler, Cadillac XT4 and BMW X5 to become finalists. The winner will succeed the Volvo XC60, 2018 Utility of the Year. The roughly 60 jurors that decide the winner are automotive journalists from the United States and Canada. They include Automotive News' Richard Truett, an engineering reporter, and Sharon Silke Carty, mobility editor.

-- David Phillips

Hau Thai-Tang, executive vice president of product development and purchasing at Ford Motor Co., from left, Bill Ford, executive chairman; Jim Hackett, CEO of Ford; and Jim Farley, president of global markets, with the sixth-generation, 2020 Ford Explorer crossover after it was introduced at Ford Field in Detroit on Jan. 9, 2019.