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Byline: Kevin A. Wilson British cars are on my mind of late because my first assignment after vacationing in the U.K. was driving the U.S.-model Lotus Exige (patience, gentle reader, the story is coming next week). The combined effect was to remind me how much fun I've had in British cars over the years, and that I had once written about how and why the mass-market British auto industry died.

In that March 8, 1993 cover story for AutoWeek, several parallels were drawn to then-current events in Detroit. With 20/20 hindsight, we can see the alarm lights were flashing. One source ...

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