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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Henry Fountain / The Bulletin
September 20, 2009
For all the talk of reinvention in the auto industry, of car companies using high-technology materials to make lighter and stronger vehicles that are safer and more fuel-efficient, the mainstay of the mass-produced automobile is the same as it has always been: steel.
The modern car still....