"They're not quite there yet. There have been some serious efforts to deal with a combination of long-standing problems in the auto industry and the current crisis which has seen the market for new cars drop from 14 million [vehicles in annual sales to nine million.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

General Motors, as you know, is an auto producer in the United States and it hasn't been doing well, as you may have heard -as is the general auto industry in this country; it's suffering under competition from abroad.

通用汽车公司,众所周知,是美国的汽车制造商,它现在效益不好,也许你们听说过,整个国内汽车行业的情况都不好,它承受着来自海外品牌的竞争

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In terms of unemployment, the troubles of the Detroit auto industry have hit Michigan in the Midwest especially hard.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

Unemployment in Michigan is the highest of any of the 50 states in the U.S.auto industry, which is based in Michigan.

VOA: standard.2009.07.14

The team at the Fitzgerald Auto Mall in Rockville,Maryland is on the front-lines of the battle to save America's car industry.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

He says that,in the 1930s, an auto industry pioneer found soybeans made a pretty good plastic.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

When exports of automobiles crossed a quarter of a million in the first seven months of the year, India's auto industry had two reasons to cheer.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

In one year,that number would double. The auto industry was failing, banks had become reluctant to lend and Americans were losing their homes in record numbers.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15