The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Production of the Chevrolet Metro continued through 2001, after which it was replaced by the Suzuki Aerio and the Daewoo -built Chevrolet Aveo. I suspect that the radio was a junkyard-obtained unit swapped in long after purchase, since body parts have been swapped as well. Such is the nature of the mighty GM Empire.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. Though this was before Apple’s 2001 iPod made these devices popular worldwide, a number of MP3 players of varied quality were already on the market in the late 1990s.

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