Acres of cars and nobody wants them
Carmakers had to lease extra land for the growing stockpile
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Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell is the deputy editor at Maclean’s. Since joining the magazine in 2005, he has also served as the foreign editor, business editor and a reporter covering everything from politics to sports.
An Internet company, all grown up
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Welcome to the auto industry bizzaro world
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BlackBerry burn
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The decline of the North American car
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Unleashing Guitar Hero
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Attention America: don’t vote
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