The design that won, by Thomas Heatherwick and Wrightbus, restored the open rear platform.
The space truck, which docked to the rear of the platform this month, fired its thrusters for a 740-second burn, raising the ISS orbit by 4.5km.
They also talk of building a new plant for a new small car, which would cost a fortune, but ignore their at-one-time hugely profitable rear-drive platform.
"Once you like it, a muscle-car person is going to be addicted to a rear-wheel drive platform, " he says.
When it gets to the station, Kepler will dock with the Russian Zvezda module on the rear of the orbiting platform.
An ultra-rigid chassis with strategic use of high-tensile steel provides a vault-like platform for the rear-drive powertrain configuration.
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Seven buses with an open hop-on hop-off platform at the rear hit downtown streets on 20 February, running on route 38, between Victoria Station and Hackney, an east London neighbourhood.
The case for a merger, meager as it is, could go something like this: buy Chrysler for almost nothing, spin off Jeep or Hummer, absorb the minivan operations and a few other product lines, like the Chrysler 300 rear-wheel-drive platform.
In the meantime, original 1950s buses with the open platform in the rear are still in service on parts of route 9, running between Trafalgar Square and Kensington, and route 15, running between Trafalgar Square and Tower Hill.
"We were well on the path to making a rear-wheel-drive global platform, " says Mays.
It was willing to lend Chrysler an outdated E-class platform as the basis for a new generation of rear-wheel-drive sedans, including the Chrysler 300 and Dodge Charger.
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