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While You Were Sleeping: February 4th, 2015
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Derek Kreindler
(IC: employee)
Published: February 4th, 2015
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Cars and energy seem to be a growing theme around here. Today’s edition discusses both issues.
- Jaguar Land Rover is apparently scouting for factory locations in the Southeast United States.
- One of the more interesting “young people have given up on cars” articles.
- Another application for the 9-speed automatic.
- An encyclopedia of the oil crash.
- IHS predicts a bottoming of the crude oil market in the second half of 2015.
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Published February 4th, 2015 10:09 AM
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I fully believe that any JLR products made in the USA would be the most well-built products they ever made - ever.
The Morgan three wheelers that were better than the Morgan's, not Morgan's and are now I believe built by Morgan in the UK. So, that wouldn't really count now that I think about it. I'm just sad I don't fit in one so I may be obsessing a bit.
Rolls-Royce made left-drive cars in Springfield Mass from 1921 until about 1931, While it was the Great Depression that killed sales, there was a snobbery of buyers who perceived the US-built cars weren't as good as the RHD Crewe cars.
Austin build cars in the U.S.A. before world war two. I think it was called the Austin Bantam, Don't know if that was the correct spelling but they also designed a Jeep for the U.S.Army before the world war II. I understand it beat out the Ford & Willy's Jeep but the army could not accept it because they did not have the means of production that Ford && Willy's had