No American need be lectured about the ARA. Americans love cars and love driving, so the myth goes.
Americans love their cars and buy more Toyotas than any drivers on Earth.
We acted to get lending flowing again so businesses could get loans to buy equipment, and ordinary Americans could get financing to buy homes and cars, to go to college, and to start or run businesses.
If autonomy were fully implemented today, there would be roughly 100 million Americans sitting in their cars and trucks tomorrow, by themselves, with time on their hands.
At any rate, even if GM and Chrysler had been liquidated in Chapter 11, Americans could still buy Toyotas, Nissans and other cars that the transplants usually make in the South and Midwest.
In the 20th century rail travel languished as Americans fell in love with cars and interstate highways.
As Americans spend more time in cars and behind desks--both of which are long-term trends--they expend fewer calories in their daily lives.
As Mr Easterbrook emphasises, most Americans have at least two cars and their own house, and they send their children to college.
Average gas prices are 86 cents higher this Thanksgiving, but that isn't keeping more than 31 million Americans from piling into their cars and driving to holiday celebrations in near record numbers.
Millions of Americans have bought cars like the Taurus and the Cavalier, and whatever their problems, most people liked their cars.
Not for the first time, Americans are debating just how far cars and trucks should be able to travel on a gallon of gas.
And there remains the possibility of a delayed reaction to current price levels, as consumers, particularly profligate Americans, turn to less thirsty cars and appliances.
Americans, and Texans in particular, want bigger cars, and they don't trust foreigners to make them.
This time, the government should bail them out both for practical reasons and because, after all, Americans love their cars.
Of the 15.1m cars and pick-ups bought by Americans last year, 2m went to customers who set foot in a dealership only to collect the vehicle.
With property values declining, Americans were no longer borrowing against their homes to buy cars and jacuzzis.
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And so if they want to sell cars to Americans, they're going to need to improve fuel economy.
Americans are driving less, and they are buying more fuel-efficient cars.
Oil prices skyrocketed and Americans waited in mile-long lines just to fill up their cars with gas.
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Americans are rapidly making moves to conserve energy, buying more hybrid cars and swapping out old-fashioned light bulbs.
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Voters in Ohio and Michigan may have noticed that there are 43, 000 more Americans making cars than in early 2009.
With his new CAFE requirements, Obama is seeking to force ordinary Americans to give up their 14-MPG Lincoln Navigators and squeeze into tiny hybrid cars getting 54.5 MPG.
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The management changes come as BMW is preparing to unveil its redesigned X3 sport-utility later this month and launch a new marketing effort to get Americans to custom-order their cars.
Our research indicates that these consumers have their eyes on the same things generations of Americans have demanded: a nice home, one or more cars, modern appliances and conveniences, beautiful clothes, electronics, a good education for the kids, better health care, and more travel and leisure.
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Now these cars will say made in America, by American workers and bought by Americans.
Americans who want this technology are free to buy it and more than 40% of new cars have it.
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Americans spent more online in November to the start of the holiday season and began to replace cars and rebuild in the Northeast after Superstorm Sandy.
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After the first oil shock in 1973 it didn't take long for Americans to return to their gas-guzzling ways, with a preference for large cars and big V8 engines, says automotive analyst John Wolkonowicz, of consultant Global Insight in Lexington, Mass.
That's the downside of buying cars the way we Americans like to: by going to the dealership Saturday morning and expecting to be driving home Saturday afternoon, already a little high on that new-car smell.
And even though petrol (gasoline) is still dear, ever more efficient cars are helping Americans to travel farther for less.
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