Will quality ghosts of British Leyland haunt Tesla?

April 04, 2017 05:00 AM

MOBILITY_170809994_AR_0_EAHLLOSYOZTU.jpg Richard Truett covers technology and engineering for Automotive News

Elon Musk, born in June 1971, may know little about the defunct automaker British Leyland. But he may very well learn -- painfully -- some of the lessons that eventually killed what was once the General Motors of Britain.

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