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Automotive design is central to Detroit's revival

Automotive historian and TV personality Donald Osbourne says Detroit is firmly on the up, and much of that is down to the automobile. Osbourne sat down with Car Design News editor-in-chief James McLachlan at CDD Detroit to dig into this and more

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