Auto executives predicted that having to install seatbelts would bring the downfall of their industry.
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Before Election Day and after, Obama's staff has been in touch with auto executives, industry sources said.
Mr. Girsky is one of many auto executives who still see hard times ahead for the European market.
Surprising auto executives and analysts alike, February car sales soared to a level not seen since February 2008.
Auto executives indicated that women tend to favor the feature somewhat more than men because of the security aspects.
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And auto executives said the strength in new-car sales is coast to coast.
But if Ford and other auto executives see the technology with a Jetsons like optimism, they have darker concerns, too.
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Some of the auto executives have been making the rounds in Washington for weeks, asking for money from different agencies.
In the long run, auto executives say, a shortage of qualified workers might eventually put the brakes on Thailand's auto industry.
Recent years have seen a long line of financial and auto executives march up Capitol Hill for a flogging in front of Congress.
Marchionne also demonstrated that he cares little for the traditional discretion that keeps most global auto executives from saying potentially controversial or even off-kilter things.
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For years now, their concerns have been ignored by auto executives who insisted there was no way to improve fuel efficiency and still give consumers the cars they want.
Cerberus is chock-full of former auto industry executives who no doubt will be offering their opinions about how LaSorda should run Chrysler.
My unexpected find was a number of American auto supplier executives who were excited about state and local governments in Indiana, the environment for electric vehicle innovation there, and their opportunities in China.
In a survey of auto industry executives conducted by KPMG, respondents expected that among electric vehicles, hybrids will have the highest customer demand by 2025, followed by fuel-cell vehicles, outdoing the demand of battery-powered cars.
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While other auto chief-executives-to-be were punching keyboards in an accounting office, Fukui ran the company's motorcycle racing operations.
The United States is seen increasing its share of global auto sales this year even as its economy cools, executives at the Detroit Auto Show said this week.
Executives at auto companies have said that probably only about half of those vehicles would have been purchased if the program did not exist.
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As executives at auto makers expect the current strong appetite for the subsidies to use up the budget before autumn, car companies are bracing for a sales drop when the program comes to an end.
Ghosn has been one of the most-forward thinking executives in the auto industry of the past decade.
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In January McElya started twisting arms of fellow senior executives in the auto industry and related Detroit-area businesses.
The alliance will be run by senior executives from each auto company, which will give GM and PSA the opportunity to get to know each other, and decide whether the initial spark can turn into something longer lasting.
Avtovaz was selling its cars at a loss to Berezovsky's dealership, Logovaz, and engaging Logovaz to handle its finances at the same time that the top executives at the auto factory benefited personally from the relationship as Logovaz shareholders.
This must have been a point Marchionne really wanted to make, because despite the increasingly crucial place in the presidential campaign that has come to be occupied by the auto bailouts, both GM and Chrysler executives have been nearly completely mum about it.
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And today their top executives, as well as the Auto Workers Union leader, will be asking U.S. senators to help them get the money.
Chief executives and designers of the world's largest auto companies surrounded the vehicle, admiring its muscular lines.
As exotic-auto makers redefine what a superluxury car can be, their executives are attempting a delicate balancing act: maintaining the exclusive cachet of their upper-crust brands while pursuing new wealthy customers that lower-end luxury rivals are currently scooping up.
In the coming days, the Treasury Department's pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, is expected to announce compensation cuts of about 50% for the 25 highest-paid executives at American International Group, Bank of America, Citigroup, Chrysler, General Motors and the auto companies' financing arms.
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