Your Dream Car Awaits

5-day DFW Auto Show brings world's most impressive cars to Dallas

Did the State Fair of Texas merely whet your appetite for that new car you’ve been coveting? You’re in luck: The 2015 DFW Auto Show is coming to the Dallas Convention Center March 25-29, featuring 650,000 square feet of the hottest cars in the country.

Here’s a sampling of what you can see: Land Rover Discovery Sport, Porsche Macan, Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG Coupe, Mini Hardtop John Cooper Works, BMW i8, Chevrolet Colorado and Toyota Camry.

Have your eye on a future model? You can get a preview of the Nissan Titan, Toyota Tacoma, Audi A6 and A7, Chevrolet Volt, Mazda CX5 Grand Touring, and the 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor.

More into high end or big dreams? You’ll want to hit up the $100,000-plus section of the show, featuring the Bentley Flying Spur, Maserati Ghibli, McLaren 650S MSO (one of only six in the United States), Rolls Royce Wraith, and the Aston Martin One-77 (one of only 77 of its kind in the world and the first of three allowed in the United States).

Don Herring Jr., 2015 DFW Auto Show chairman, has been working the show since 1994. “When 400,000 people come to see the latest models at a show that includes almost every manufacturer and takes up almost all of the Dallas Convention Center, there is nothing else like it,” Herring says.

“The show has grown to a size that no one could have imagined back in the ‘80s and truly has become one of the largest five-day shows in the country.”

Also on the agenda: an interactive adventure zone, where professional drivers steer you through a 13-foot-high, 30-yard-long, 30-degree RAM mountain (with fallen logs for extra fun); test drive options through downtown; classic cars and dragsters; and a Kids Zone complete with monster truck bounce house.

But this isn’t all fast and furious. Three years ago, the show, sponsored by the Dallas Fort Worth Metropolitan New Car Dealers Association (DFW NCDA), donated 4,824 pounds of food to the North Texas Food Bank and hopes to break that record this year by giving attendees discounted tickets for a canned good contributions.

Ready to roll?

Details

What: 650,000 square feet of cars.
When: March 25-29. Wednesday-Thursday, 4-10 pm; Friday-Saturday, 10 am-10 pm; Sunday, 10 am-7 pm.
Where: Dallas Convention Center, 650 S. Griffin St.
Tickets: $12 for adults, $5 for 65+ and kids ages 6-12.
Bonus: Bring a canned good for the North Texas Food Bank and get $1 off the $12 admission price.

Alfa Romeo 4C

Photo courtesy of DFWNCDA

Alfa Romeo 4C

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Jobs report

Texas ranks among 10 best states to find a job, says new report

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You have a better chance of landing a job in Texas than in most other states.

If you’re hunting for a job in Texas amid a tough employment market, you stand a better chance of landing it here than you might in other states.

A new ranking by personal finance website WalletHub of the best states for jobs puts Texas at No. 7. The Lone Star State lands at No. 2 in the economic environment category and No. 18 in the job market category.

Massachusetts tops the list, and West Virginia appears at the bottom.

To determine the most attractive states for employment, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 34 key indicators of economic health and job market strength. Ranking factors included employment growth, median annual income, and average commute time.

“Living in one of the best states for jobs can provide stable conditions for the long term, helping you ride out the fluctuations that the economy will experience in the future,” WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo says.

In September, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas led the U.S. in job creation with the addition of 195,600 jobs over the past 12 months.

While Abbott proclaimed Texas is “America’s jobs leader,” the state’s level of job creation has recently slowed. In June, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas noted that the state’s year-to-date job growth rate had dipped to 1.8 percent, and that even slower job growth was expected in the second half of this year.

The August unemployment rate in Texas stood at 4.1 percent, according to the Texas Workforce Commission. Throughout 2025, the monthly rate in Texas has been either four percent or 4.1 percent.

By comparison, the U.S. unemployment rate in August was 4.3 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2025, the monthly rate for the U.S. has ranged from 4 percent to 4.3 percent.

Here’s a rundown of the August unemployment rates in Texas’ four biggest metro areas:

Austin — 3.9 percent
Dallas-Fort Worth — 4.4 percent
San Antonio — 4.4 percent
Houston — 5 percent

Unemployment rates have remained steady this year despite layoffs and hiring freezes driven by economic uncertainty. However, the number of U.S. workers who’ve been without a job for at least 27 weeks has risen by 385,000 this year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in August. That month, long-term unemployed workers accounted for about one-fourth of all unemployed workers.

An August survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York showed a record-low 44.9 percent of Americans were confident about finding a job if they lost their current one.

This story originally was published on our sister site, InnovationMap.

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