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Run flats had a lot to do with the movement as did hybrids as they needed the room for the batteries and wanted to keep those heavy pigs down low. Even a truck as large as an Escalade in hybrid form does not get a spare. Funny thing: my father was an automotive engineer and spent a few years in Germany. Some time in the late 90s Ford had that little rebadged Korean car named the KA or something like that. The funny part is that they tried to make it cheaper by not installing a spare but it then failed crash tests as it was such a tin can.
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