"Noble and CEO cars, approved by the Chinese government, are legal products, " a spokesman for Shuanghuan Auto said.
Lobbyists for several auto makers said the new guidelines, which aren't enforceable, will largely follow what auto makers are already doing.
Some other auto makers said they will either revise their prices soon or are considering price increases.
And auto executives said the strength in new-car sales is coast to coast.
However, the South Korean auto maker said it still planned on increasing its ad spending on Facebook this year.
Higher commodity costs and costs to support product markets slightly offset sales in North America, the U.S. auto company said.
Still, lobbyists for several auto makers said they sense a change in tone from the administration and no longer expect limits on the technology.
Also, European auto manufacturers said Wednesday sales of their cars in the European Union were at a 17-year low, dropping by 8% in 2012.
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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.
An official in the auto industry said that bringing the Colombian pact into the negotiations could be a poison pill that would prevent passage of an auto industry aid package.
Chrysler meanwhile said it reached an agreement with the United Auto Workers it said it needed to keep it out of bankruptcy.
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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That led to less PGM usage during that time, but Winmill said auto production elsewhere in the world would make up for it and thus there would ultimately not be any knock-on demand for the metals.
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The Dodge Durango hybrid, this is a car - well one auto writer has said by going hybrid with the Dodge Durango, you can take a car that gets 12 miles to the gallon and get 16 miles to the gallon instead.
Akerson, speaking on the sidelines of the Automotive News World Congress during the Detroit auto show, said he has been pleased with consumer response to the newly launched Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, so much so that GM now expects to sell more than 25, 000 Volts in 2011 and will add another Volt-like product, perhaps in the form of a small electric van, in 2012 or 2013.
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So when folks said let's go ahead and let the auto industry go bankrupt, we said, no, let's bet on American workers.
Meanwhile, gas prices and consumer confidence are headwinds for higher auto sales, Nesvold said.
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When automobiles were created many people who grew up riding horses said the auto would never displace the horse.
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Macedo said that auto and agribusiness kept industrial production positive in the month of July, still a dismal 0.3 percent.
"Cerberus believes in the inherent strength of U.S. manufacturing and of the U.S. auto industry, " said the company's chairman, former U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow.
Chief Executive Dan Akerson said the auto maker was mulling a contingency plan to move workers and possibly vehicle production from South Korea if tensions there continue to escalate.
GM's international chief, Tim Lee, said the auto maker isn't ignoring the slowdown but it has no plans to delay vehicle projects, seeing new models as helping to battle back.
Before Election Day and after, Obama's staff has been in touch with auto executives, industry sources said.
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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It's harder to get teenagers to not take risks when it comes to avoiding problem foods and always carrying the epinephrine auto-injector, Bassett said.
And while they like the stability of new owners, "everyone is concerned about long-term viability, " said one United Auto Workers official who asked not to be named.
"She's the most nontraditional auto person around, " said Marchionne, the workaholic boss who lured her away from Volkswagen last year after a long career at Ford Motor.
"Growth in the satellite radio sector has not proved as robust as investors had hoped, and now subscriber gains are coming largely through the auto channel, " Moran said.
One piece of good news for the car giants is that the United Auto Workers (UAW) said on December 3rd that it was prepared to make concessions to help them.
"As such, it is very possible that most if not all of the rise in claims in the latest report were due to job losses in the auto sector, " Feroli said.
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