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Archive Home > 2008 > November > 14 > In auto industry, it doesn’t always pay to innovate

In auto industry, it doesn’t always pay to innovate

By Rob Sass / The Bulletin
November 14, 2008

Forty years ago, a panel of auto journalists picked the NSU Ro80 as European Car of the Year. Now mostly forgotten, the Ro80 was a German sedan with an aerodynamic shape that presaged the Audi 5000 and Ford Taurus of the 1980s. As important as its trend-setting styling, though, the Ro80 featured....

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