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2012 auto forecast: An alternate reality

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Tesla Founder and CEO Elon Musk unveils his company's third battery-powered vehicle, the Model X, which he describes as combining the people-moving capability of a minivan with the functionality of an SUV. None of the Wall Street analysts covering Tesla think to ask, "Isn't that what they said about the Pontiac Aztek?"


By Alex Taylor III, senior editor-at-large @FortuneMagazine - Last updated December 29 2011: 5:20 AM ET
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