Australia is one of only a dozen or so countries that can design, engineer and manufacture a car from scratch.

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General Motors launched the Saturn Corp. back in 1985 to create not only a brand-new car from scratch but a brand-new way of building cars and empowering workers.

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If Ford wants to bring back the Taurus, it needs to follow its own example and reinvent the car from scratch to shake up the industry, the way it did with the original Taurus back in 1986.

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Some famous entrepreneurs failed spectacularly trying to start car companies from scratch.

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Unlike the previous Flying Spur, which was essentially a stretched Continental GT, this car has been created from scratch and the Continental link has been severed.

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General Motors got quirky in 1990, buying Saab, best known as the college-professor car brand, and creating Saturn--"a different kind of car company"--from scratch.

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Toyota's luxury car business, Lexus, was created from scratch, rather than by the purchase of some other firm's famous, but tired, brand.

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