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The Good and Ugly Sides of Automotive Collaborations

msn.auto -- Think of the greatest and most awful collaborations you can. Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg? Check one in the "greatest" category. Architect I.M. Pei and the famous Louvre Museum? Still open for interpretation. Celine Dion and Chrysler? Beautiful and short-lived -- and only one of them came out rich.

We all like to see collaborations, whether they flourish or flop. They can prove the impossible (bacon and chocolate) or the inevitable (Snooki and birth control). It’s a human need to see two sides work together (or try to), a humble admission that we can’t do everything alone, and the suspense of creating something awesome from very different parts. The automotive world, as Dion can attest, works the same way. Here are a few good and bad examples.

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Submitted Jun 27, 2012 By: Cakes77

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