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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

The Truth About Cars

Sacrificing much, GM spent billions and billions of 1980s dollars on technology and engineering entities at the behest of CEO Roger Smith, who wanted to transform The General into a company more resembling a conglomerate like GE. Can you find an Oldsmobile for sale with Guidestar intact? to have a complete set of Guidestar maps.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

More Recharging Detroit The future of the U.S. Just this past year Russia sent tanks into oil-rich Georgia, and an oil tanker was hijacked off the coast of Somalia. The power and efficiency of the internal-combustion engine were at the core of the development of the automobile. and we must do it quickly to save Detroit.

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