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Cars

Another automaker has a candid take on why wagons are disappearing

Hyundai isn’t chasing wagons as sales are declining. Its SUVs are more profitable than wagons. The long-roof i30 is still available in some markets. Just a few months ago, Mercedes’ head of exterior design gave his clear opinion on the position of the wagon in 2026. Robert Lesnik said that “nobody in America is buying

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Books

David Plowden, who captured the picture of disappearing America, dies at the age of 93

One day in the early 1940s, David Plowden picked up his Kodak Brownie box camera and headed with his mother to the train depot near his family’s farm in Vermont. He was 11 years old and so fascinated by steam engines that he often traveled on the railway tracks and befriended some of the conductors

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