Recent years have seen a long line of financial and auto executives march up Capitol Hill for a flogging in front of Congress.
Even supplies are handled inefficiently, with rows and rows of auto parts stacked up along the assembly line, awaiting installation.
In the NBC interview, recorded Saturday, Obama slammed executive compensation packages in the industry as "out of line" compared to Japanese auto companies.
The bottom line is, the fate of the auto industry, especially in the U.S. and Europe, is increasingly in the hands of the state.
Instead, the PGMs could be underpinned by the restarting of auto production in Japan after it was taken mostly off-line following the earthquake and tsunami earlier this year.
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Auto loans in particular have gone to the head of the line for households that have to decide which bill to pay first, according to Chicago-based TransUnion, the credit bureau.
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And thankfully, because of that conviction, today the auto industry is back, and new cars are rolling off the line at proud American companies like GM -- today.
He fought hard to protect jobs for American families. (Applause.) And that is why today, the auto industry is back, and new cars are rolling off the line at companies like GM.
Today, the American auto industry is coming back, creating jobs and moving cars off the line.
Mash the pedal in Auto EV mode and, after the electric motor pulls you off the line, there's a brief delay before the gasoline engine comes to life and the CVT raises the RPMs to maximize efficiency.
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While General Motors managed to hold the line on fixed costs in its tentative contract with the United Auto Workers union, the company will still be dishing out plenty of cash to workers over the next four years.
It is hard to overstate how revolutionary that rope and Andon board were for the auto industry: Allowing a mere blue-collar worker to stop the line would have been heresy in Detroit a few decades ago, as managers were more concerned about keeping up volume than quality.
"Ford should play first in line when looking for a recovery in the U.S. auto sector, " the analyst said.
Alcoa kicked off the first quarter earnings season delivering a bottom-line beat on the back of solid demand from the aerospace and auto markets.
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Instead of financing it with an auto loan, they decided to pay for it by using the home equity line of credit that had been offered to them automatically when they signed their mortgage.
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Spear worked on the assembly line at Toyota to find out how the company continues to disrupt the auto industry.
You know, taking the assembly line idea from the meatpacking and slaughterhouse industry and sticking it in his auto business.
He got the auto industry back on its feet, and today new cars are rolling off the line at proud American companies like GM.
Almost every auto maker selling vehicles in the U.S. has been keeping production in line with demand and holding incentives and discounts in check.
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He got the auto industry back on its feet, and today new cars are rolling off the line at proud American companies like GM. (Applause.) Yes, indeed.
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He got the auto industry back on its feet again, and today new cars are rolling off the line at proud American companies like GM.
If those trends continue it will mean good things for the bottom line at GM, Ford, Chrysler and plenty of businesses closely tied to the auto industry.
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Predictive analytics will allow auto insurance companies to accurately determine a reasonable premium to cover each automobile and driver, which helps their bottom line, as well as ours.
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