Opinion
America got the world driving. Now it’s going home
The US car industry is turning inward again for the first time in a century. Detroit got the world on the road. BYD will inherit the earth.
David FicklingGermany’s Carl Benz might have invented the automobile, but it’s the United States that got us to drive them.
The relentless export of American cars and car culture put the world on the road in the 20th century. By the 1960s, Ford had plants in almost every major European country, as well as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, India, Israel, Peru, Pakistan, South Africa, Turkey, and Zimbabwe.
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