In the auto industry, suppliers are already building almost-complete cars.

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And though the Rhyme is not a Facebook phone, HTC made it especially easy to post pictures to Facebook by building in a feature that auto-uploads photos taken on the device to an assigned Facebook folder.

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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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Further, she said, the rise in U.S. auto sales probably comes from pent-up demand and inventory building.

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Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover is also reportedly building a factory there, to meet auto demand and probably to avoid higher taxes on imported cars recently enacted by the country.

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Chery has been building cars for just eight years but is already China's fourth-largest auto manufacturer, with sales of 300, 000 vehicles in 50 countries last year, and plans to sell 1 million cars a year by 2010.

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Indeed, a new push to improve vehicle crashworthiness could complicate efforts by auto makers to persuade consumers that the lighter, smaller cars they are building to address tougher government fuel-efficiency standards and motorists' concerns about fuel prices are also safe.

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