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Posted AT 9:36 PM EST on 19/02/06

Magna's car of the future

GREG KEENAN

From Monday's Globe and Mail

Amid all the shiny metal on display at the Canadian International Auto Show, it's a concept car deep in the Ford display that provides one of the most intriguing hints about how Magna International Inc. sees the future of the auto industry unfolding. But it's the not the soy-based bumpers, corn-based convertible roof or even the hydrogen-powered engine of the Ford Motor Co. model U concept that Magna president Mark Hogan singles out. It's the plastic body panels.

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