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One Car Company That’s Doing Really Well

Mattel, makers of “Hot Wheels” (I was more of a Matchbox guy myself), is now worth more than GM, reports Newsweek.

Key surreal quote: “As the stock market melted down, he still paid $13,000 for a rare “overchromed” Ford T-bird from the original Hot Wheels catalog. “I’ve looked over my portfolio and I’m down in everything except Hot Wheels,” he says.”

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How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

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