DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Auto Show returns this week, offering an opportunity to take a peek at the cars of today and tomorrow and also go for a spin.

The annual car-fest at a Detroit convention hall features a lineup of 40-plus vehicle brands. At last year’s show, organizers say attendees took more than 100,000 rides in them.

“That’s what makes the Detroit Auto Show different,” show chairman Todd Szott said. “You can get up close, talk to the people behind the brands and actually experience the vehicles.”

The Detroit Auto Show once was the place for new model debuts, glitzy displays and scores of journalists from across the globe. Automakers since have determined that new models can make a bigger splash when they are unveiled to a digital audience on a day when they don’t have to share the spotlight with rivals.

President Donald Trump visited the Detroit area Tuesday afternoon, touring a Ford plant in Dearborn that makes the ultra-popular F-150 pickup truck before delivering remarks during a meeting of the Detroit Economic Club.

The president touted his tariff policy, telling business leaders at a casino-hotel that “our workers are thriving.”

“And our auto industry is returning to the country where we all began, and where it all began,” Trump said.

While the Detroit Auto Show has scaled back dramatically from its heyday, it still drew 275,000 attendees a year ago. And it is leaning into interactivity.

Speakers include Republican U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno from Ohio, and a pair of Democrats — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Pete Buttigieg, the Transportation Secretary under President Joe Biden.