Recent news in the automobile industry continues to trend toward change. Not the kind of changes we saw in the 1970s, when smaller, more fuel-efficient cars took over the market and not the kind of change that saw a shift from station wagons to minivans in the 1980s.
American drivers' tastes have shifted from cars to SUVs and pickups, but worldwide and in places where the open road isn’t quite so beckoning, the shift is away from internal combustion engine-propelled vehicles and, indeed, away from cars altogether.
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