Can this year’s North American International Auto Show breathe new life into the world’s struggling auto industry?

It very well could.

This year, there are plenty of dazzling debuts scheduled, and journalists have been put on notice that there will be at least one or two surprise debuts that nobody is expecting.

No matter what happens, this year’s Press Days Preview, which gets underway Monday, should be fun than last year’s stultifying wake that prompted many journalists to wonder why they’d bother to …