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MOTOR CITY SOUTH; Automotive action in the New South.
Byline: J.P. VETTRAINO
There are a couple of dozen university-based transportation research facilities such as Clemson University's International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR), including those at the University of Maryland, the University of Michigan, Ohio State University and the University of California. Most are longer-established than CU-ICAR, and some are better known. None is bolder or more confident in its future.
CU-ICAR's goal is simple: To be the premier automotive and motorsports research and educational facility in the world. It's quickly building the resources and credentials to achieve that goal, and it's becoming a model for such facilities around the world.
Established in 2004 and endowed by South Carolina's higher-education authority, CU-ICAR was shaped to harness energy created by two waves: the rapid growth of an auto industry in the South and the rise of NASCAR as a national phenomenon.
CU-ICAR's "technopolis'' is in Greenville, in South Carolina's northeast corner, next door to both Michelin North America and BMW's manufacturing and research facilities, midway along Interstate 85 between Atlanta and Charlotte.
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Source: HighBeam Research, MOTOR CITY SOUTH; Automotive action in the New South.