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.
We said to the auto industry, you're going to have to truly change, not just pretend like you're changing.
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That's changing according to Vlad Sejnoha, chief technology officer at Nuance, who says auto makers have had to re-invent themselves as consumer electronics manufacturers.
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Now we're seeing domestic auto industry go as well, and be replaced by auto jobs at Japanese firms, for instance, that still pay well but nothing near what autoworkers for the Big Three used to make.
While Congress and the Bush administrations lurch toward some kind of bailout for the auto industry, we're going to take a look now at the impact if one, two, or even all three of the big three automakers should fail in the coming months.
We started out with aid to banks, of course that's now spread to the auto industry, and just this week we're finding out that the GMAC, this giant company that provides auto loans, is also getting help.
The deal called for the two companies to reopen Fremont, re-hired United Auto Workers members, and run the plant under the Toyota Production System.
Maybe you only get hit eight or 10 times a year, but if you experience eight auto crashes a year you're going to feel it.
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Ms. MAYNARD: Well, what we're looking at in the auto industry is finally the realization that what they call alternate fuel vehicles, hybrids, electric cars are finally going to be part of the auto industry, a good part of the auto industry.
We're talking about eliminating an entire auto maker and not just any auto maker.
We're going to look at the auto industry, a year and some after the bailouts.
We're not in here generally discussing robust auto sales on a daily basis.
They're the fastest-growing category of new auto sales in the country.
The central planners in Washington must be feeling pretty good about themselves these days and the way in which they are single-handedly re-shaping the U.S. auto industry.
It takes a certain amount of time for companies to make decisions and re-engineer a product, in this case auto catalysts, and put them into production.
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You're talking to people there in Detroit and talking to auto workers, many of whom have heard that they might be laid off pretty soon.
And while we're at it, won't used car dealerships and auto mechanics suffer for the destruction of cars that would otherwise need to be sold and repaired?
Last week at the Los Angeles Auto Show Porsche unveiled the 2014 edition of the Cayman, a totally re-engineered whip that is lighter, faster, more efficient and more powerful than its predecessor.
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Senator OBAMA: What we have to do is invest in retooling the auto industry to make our cars more efficient and make sure they're made not in Japan, not in South Korea, but right here in Michigan and right here in the United States of America.
Ford's contract with the United Auto Workers includes certain job security measures that protect employees even when they're laid off.
And speaking of things that go, the U.S. auto industry may in fact offer President Obama the only dependable port in a re-gathering economic storm when car makers post their August sales results early next week: Prognosticators believe the sales snapshot will show an auto industry that is still strongly on track toward its third consecutive year of double-digit sales gains.
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And what we're trying to do in this community is find not only as many auto jobs as we can find, but branch out and diversify.
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The Auto EV mode is essentially electric-only most of the time unless you're standing on the gas -- in other words, if there's a demand for more power.
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In my view, New England fans spoiled rotten, but the Patriots, the Red Sox, the Celtics - and they're playing New York, who, in my view, is the auto-enemy of everything good.
And you're right -- there's been a lot of mismanagement of the auto industry over the last several years.
Second they are compounding their problems by forcing their customers to do the hard work of re-signing themselves up for a service they already thought they had on auto-pilot (when every other business in the marketplace is bending over backwards to make transacting business with them easier and not harder).
Multiple manufacturers have told us that they'll be launching initiatives in 2013 to enlist the help of outside developers and, while we're still a long way from a truly open source car, expect some auto-related APIs to launch at CES. This should, finally, help to push the selection of apps available to run in cars.
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