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$3 BILLION STRONG; The Big Business of Small Cars.(News)(Brief Article)

AutoWeek,  April, 2004  by Vaughn, Mark

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Byline: -MARK VAUGHN The International Auto Salon, the Specialty Equipment Market Association's annual sport-tuner fest in Los Angeles, is now seven years old and represents a $3 billion-a-year business. This year the focus was on the Focus, as well as the 350Z and the three Scions, all of which got more cool stuff to make them go faster and look more stylin'.

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But just about anything small and compact will be doing better in 2004 than it did in 2003. Specifically: n Ford launched a new, 35-page catalog of parts for the Focus. n Vortech, GReddy and HKS had forced-air kits ...

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