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Photo Journal - The rise and fall of mass production in the US car industry

24-02-2007 12:43am

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Seth Brundle

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Interesting...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/business_rise_and_fall_of_mass_production/html/1.stm

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#2 24-02-2007 10:11am

Andrewf20

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Interesting stuff. Ive never been impressed with most US cars. The amount of SUV's in the USA is significant. It looks like around 50% of vehicles on US roads are SUVs / 4x4s from what ive seen. They certainly love their big engines. I saw some unexpected models over there recently like a mark 5 2.5 litre Golf (look bog standard though unlike GTI/R32 etc). Also saw an E65 550i over there. Never heard of that before.

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#3 24-02-2007 11:22am

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The craze for SUVs was triggered by a tax law I think. Or was it emissions law?

Mike

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