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Byline: BILL McGUIRE
twenty-five years ago, if you had predicted there would be cars like this today, people would have said you were nuts.
The late 1970s were mired in worldwide recession and a global energy shortage, while automakers were pinned under a mounting stack of emissions and safety regulations, with few clues how to meet any of them. There was a word making the rounds in the collective consciousness in those days, and it seemed to fit the auto industry about as well as it fit everything else: malaise.
The automobile was no longer a symbol of the triumph of technology but of its failure. Where only a few years earlier the pop ...