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The annual early-January CES event in Las Vegas, Nev., is beginning to steal some thunder from Detroit’s North American International Auto Show, which follows the CES event a week later. CES is rapidly becoming its own car show. Not surprisingly, a number of top automakers chose to use the backdrop of Las Vegas to roll out new technologies and in several cases, new cars.