The ceremony began with Disneyland Resort Millennium Ambassador Dorell Mitter:

Since Disneyland's opening day in 1955 there has been one constant in Tomorrowland, the popularity of the Autopia. Drivers of all ages have happily cruised its winding roadways for 45 years and this summer Autopia revamps itself for a generation of new drivers, new memories, new cars and a few surprises. And to tell you a little more about it, please welcome the Senior Vice President of Creative Development for Walt Disney Imagineering, Tony Baxter.

It was 45 years ago when the Orange County freeways were under construction, and I think in about another year they're going to be finished. Before they opened, Walt Disney created an attraction out here that gave the first Autopia guests 45 years ago a chance to preview a world that Walt Disney called "on the move." Everything about the future was going to be on the move and the whole idea of going on the freeways was something that was all out there in the future, at least for Orange County residents like myself. So riding on Autopia as a kid was really one of the - if it wasn't an E-Ticket it was an E-Ticket to me and I think all kids who grew up with it. In fact, three generations of people have grown up and passed through that age where doing that adult thing of getting behind the wheel of a little car like that is really taking place for the first time on the Autopia. In fact, when I worked on it in college, often times 11 year olds would hand in those E coupons and take what was for them truly the ultimate attraction at Disneyland.

Today those freeways are really a part of our lives - good, bad and indifferent. But the thrill of getting behind the wheel of a car is alive and well, thank you. In fact, I think something has happened that's really kind of fun. We've got a car culture today. A car culture that's kind of become an extension really of our human personalities. There are cute cars, there are rugged cars and there are sports cars. And we all know that when we go into the show room we're really thinking about trying it on, how's this model going to affect me personally. No one understands this better than Chevron, our partners here on the Autopia project. And in recent years Chevron has introduced to their audience a whole world of car personalities that I'm sure you all know and love. And I think they're going to continue in that tradition with us here at Disneyland by being our partners for the new family of cars that we're going to introduce here at Autopia. Now I'd like to introduce our partner on the Autopia project from Chevron Glenn Weckerlin.

Thanks Tony. It has been three years, but a fun three years. It's kind of a rare experience when you can really look around and rain or shine you just got a bunch of smiles and there's no way anything could wipe those smiles off of peoples faces. It's really neat to be a part of that. So I guess on behalf of Chevron what I'd like to say is thank you Tony, Cynthia and the rest of the folks at Disneyland for the opportunity to be a part of the Disney and Disneyland family. It's a really neat experience for us. We look forward to an opportunity to bring the cars to life through the new and exciting Autopia attraction and hope that next summer, when there's a really good chance of all sun, we all show up back here and start to take part in what we hope to be not just a 10 but maybe a 20 year experience with Chevron and Disney. So thank you again.

Now, what do you think? You think we should do it? I think it's time that everybody here has a first look at Disneyland's newest cars.