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Pete Buttigieg: “Studebaker was as big of a car maker as the big three. It…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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People have heard of it usually because they watch Notre Dame football or basketball, but we were a city that really grew up around the auto industry. Studebaker was as big of a car maker as the big three. It would have been the big four, if they hadn't gone out of business in the 60s. And it was a city that was really kind of trying to figure out if it was going to make it, kind of licking its wounds. (02:06–02:15)

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Asserts that Studebaker was a major car manufacturer comparable to the big three automakers before going out of business in the 1960s.

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