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The term "car" covers a wide variety of vehicles from "micro-city" cars to full sized body on frame pickup trucks.  They have become essential transportation. As an expensive status symbol they are widely [[Car color popularity|customizable]].   

The term "car" covers a wide variety of vehicles from "micro-city" cars to full sized body on frame pickup trucks.  They have become essential transportation. As an expensive status symbol they are widely [[Car color popularity|customizable]].   

The automobile industry forced nations, starting with the U.S., to develop good streets and roads.  In the U.S. especially the industry created a vast network of new and used car dealers, repair shops, and gas stations, not to mention GPS devices, motels, drive-through windows, and many businesses catering to customers in autos.

The automobile industry forced nations, starting with the U.S., to develop good streets and roads.  In the U.S. especially the industry created a vast network of new and used car dealers, repair shops, and gas stations, not to mention GPS devices, motels, drive-through windows, shopping malls, and many businesses catering to customers in autos.  The auto gave consumers a much wider geographical range, leading to the decline of isolated rural stores and the rise of small cities as regional market centers.  Automobiles enabled employees to commute to work without reference to buses, trolleys or trains, opening up the suburbs to settlement after 1945. Automobiles also added pollution to the air and caused traffic accidents with many fatalaties. The nation responded by motorizing its police forces and ambulance services.

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