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Whatever Happened to Car Ashtrays?

April 28, 2012 By Nadeem Muaddi

When was the last time you worked on a new car that came equipped with a stock lighter and ashtray? If you're anything like me, you don't even know. That's because automakers started to silently phase them out sometime in the mid 90's. By the 2000's, most cars only offered them as optional features. Today, many cars don't even do that. In the course of researching why that … [Read more...] about Whatever Happened to Car Ashtrays?

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