Opening the tailgate with its integrated rear light cluster reveals supplementary lights to warn approaching vehicles of the open tailgate.

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The first batch of these -- literally historic -- images shows us a tantalizing look at the Fornax cluster of galaxies, some 60 million light years from Earth.

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Certainly a big metropolis like New York would seem as ripe for a scooter invasion as the cities of Europe, where a cluster of them precedes cars at every red light.

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