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A WORLD WITHOUT PACKARD?

What if there had never been a Packard Motor Car Co.?

Let’s say that, if Packard had existed to innovate certain features and improvements in its new cars year after year for more than half a century, perhaps no other car company may have offered the same advancements. Granted, this is a real stretch, and, logically, most of the advancements pioneered by Packard were likely to have eventually been introduced by other car companies. But simply for the sake of fun on what might have been, let’s take a jaunt through the list of

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