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Nightshade
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Right after WWII we had milions of soldiers returning that would need or
buy all kind of goods. Our manufacturing base was by then mostly geared
towards war. The change had to be made to something else that people could
buy and be convinced that the needed. Two cars in every garage was the
easy answer. Lots of jobs for returning soldiers to build roads and homes
as well as buy lots and lots of cars.

Car manufactures were now in the drivers seat as to what the would
sell as well as how long it would last to ensure that car sells would
remain robust. Since doing this would hurt rail and city transport the
Gov't hid the damage until it was to late to stop.

Along came import cars which were tolerated as toys for the rich. Then
the Arab oil embargo caught big business and big gov't totally unprepared.
No longer were they making the rules. The market place was. Imports now
had a market that Detroit had totally ignored.......a quality vehicle that was
both cheap to run as was better quality that the junk iron Detroit was spewing
out.

The rest of the story we all know............
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