Lee Iacocca, for example, was only one of several auto-industry heavyweights to get caught in an oil-and-gas tax shelter that ran into trouble (FORBES, June 4).
What do you do when you have no auto-industry?
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Romney, according to Romney, never favored the individual mandate, or supported abortion rights, or opposed the auto-industry bailout, or did any of the other things he obviously, and on the record, did.
To determine the average amount consumers might pay to keep their new cars in operating condition, we used 2008 repair estimates calculated over a five-year period by Vincentric, an auto-industry data-analysis company.
It also was the right thing to do, although a tough decision, to save the auto industry, which is now profitable and gaining market share -- the U.S. auto industry -- for the first time in a very long time.
The non-union auto industry is flourishing in the south in right-to-work states.
And is that something that, as this restructured and turned-around auto industry looks at the future a lower wage scale, one that does bring some concerns to those who are on the line now and are anticipating or trying to plan for their future -- is that the new normal in the American auto industry?
The auto industry is a trillion-dollar industry, sitting on 60-100 days of finished goods.
That mostly reflects competitive pressures of the auto industry--only a few carmakers are on the list--but there is an interesting quirk: Toyota Industries, a quarter-owned subsidiary, did make the cut.
We also took steps to prevent the rapid dissolution of the American auto industry -- which faced a crisis partly of its own making -- to prevent the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs during an already fragile, shaky time.
So we made the decision to stand behind the auto industry -- if automakers, if CEOs like Sergio were willing to do what was necessary to make themselves competitive in the 21st century, and if they have the cooperation of workers who were taking pride in the products that they made.
This illustrates an age-old, auto industry balancing act: new-and-improved versus tried-and-true.
But we are committed to the goal of a re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win.
But we are committed to the goal of a retooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win.
When the problem-plagued auto industry was excluded, retail sales still fell by 2.2%, nearly twice the 1.2% analysts had expected.
The EPI expects a 27% unemployment rate for African Americans in Michigan, home to the hard-hit auto industry, by the end of the year.
Mr. LASORDA: Well, and if you look at it back - and I remember the days I started in the auto industry almost 29 years ago - when I looked at the cars and the vehicles that were there.
The RV industry was--and remains--as fragmented as the auto industry had been before the Depression.
Airplane sales plummeted, the yacht-building industry nearly cratered, jewelry and fur sales lagged, and the auto industry closed dozens of high-end dealerships.
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So think about this: Just a few years ago, the American auto industry was flat-lining.
They are now -- the American auto industry is now in a very preeminent position globally.
But there are signs of a comeback -- in the auto industry, at least.
One reason is more defaults of mortgage insurance--which, ironically, protects against borrower defaults--due to auto industry job losses in the Great Lakes.
And that's also why, while some folks, if you recall, were willing to let the auto industry go under -- you remember that?
In the auto industry, eco-cars were delayed for several years as designers sought ways to give expression to an eco-feature in the look and feel of the car.
The failing economy, tightening credit and evaporating new-car sales counter-punched the auto industry late in 2008, leaving Chrysler and General Motors on the ropes and in need of immediate financial CPR.
And getting back to your last guest, the thing that the auto industry looks at - really three things that they look at - are the strength of the housing market, the strength of jobs and consumer confidence when they go to predict how the industry is going to do.
The Tuesday tariff is yet another measure aimed at protecting local industry following sector-specific tax incentives (like the auto industry) and a more aggressive intervention policy to maintain the foreign exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Brazilian real at weak levels.
And I want every American to know that the path I'm laying out today is our best chance to make sure that the cars of the future are built where they've always been built -- in Detroit and across the Midwest -- to make America's auto industry in the 21st century what it was in the 20th century -- unsurpassed around the world.
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