Best From a Decade That Changed the Auto Industry

December 31st, 2009 admin

> It’s hard to believe just 10 years ago automakers were working double-time to churn out the biggest SUVs consumers could stuff into their garages. Bigger was better, fuel economy be damned. Why worry when gas was less than a buck-and-a-half a gallon and few people knew about, let alone cared about, global warming? Now, at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, …


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