After all, GM supposedly made a clean break with its past when it filed for bankruptcy in June 2009.

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The final design of the car isn't as iconoclastic as Gehry's Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, but Mitchell's team have made a clean break from all other aspects of car design, focussing on the relationship between people within cities and cars.

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That being said, at some point either the bulls or the bears will become exhausted and if a clean break is made out of either side of this channel it could have the force of a volcanic eruption.

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