Life: Twenty cars that made Detroit

Life looks through the history books for the 20 biggest successes to come out of the Detroit auto industry.

Excerpt:

Nearly all the news coming out of Detroit
these days is bad, and the constant failures of the American car
industry make it easy to forget the good times. On Wikipedia’s list
of the world’s best-selling vehicle nameplates, many brands born in
Motown make an impressive showing against their international
competitors. In this gallery, we salute the 20 best-selling American
cars, ranked in order of all-time sales. Seen here: Ford’s Detroit
factory in the 1960s.

See the photos and read the piece here.

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Life looks through the history books for the 20 biggest successes to come out of the Detroit auto industry.

Excerpt:

Nearly all the news coming out of Detroit
these days is bad, and the constant failures of the American car
industry make it easy to forget the good times. On Wikipedia’s list
of the world’s best-selling vehicle nameplates, many brands born in
Motown make an impressive showing against their international
competitors. In this gallery, we salute the 20 best-selling American
cars, ranked in order of all-time sales. Seen here: Ford’s Detroit
factory in the 1960s.

See the photos and read the piece here.

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