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Article: Automotive review: Steel appeal on the wane.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- September 29, 2000
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Steel has reigned supreme as the predominant raw material in car manufacture ever since Herr Daimler first cobbled together the world's first automobile more than 100 years ago.
But there are many who now think that steel's sovereignty is over, and that within the next few years aluminium will start to dominate automotive thinking.
The steel versus aluminium debate, like the petrol v diesel argument, has divided the world motor industry for many years.
Although less passionately argued than the great engine controversy, steel v aluminium is ...