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Here the ad completely leaves out the important issues that of safety, fuel efficiency, and family values. Some people might associate size with safety. Since the vehicle is big it must be pretty solid and therefore absorb the shock pretty well.
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Americans have always cherished personal freedom and mobility, rugged individualism and masculine force. The advent of the horseless carriage combined all these qualities and more. The automobile traveled faster than the speed of reason; it promised to make everyone a pathfinder to a better life. It was the vehicle of personal democracy, acting as a social leveling force, granting more and more people a wide range of personal choices allowing people to make choices such as where to travel, where to work and live, where to seek personal pleasure and social recreation A century ago, automobiles were viewed as friends of the environment; they were much cleaner than horses. In 1900, for example, New York City horses deposited over 2.5 million pounds of manure and 60,000 gallons of urine on the streets. About 15,000 dead horses also had to be removed from the city streets each year. The motorcar...
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