In 2006, the company appointed Alan Mulally, a former Boeing executive with zero auto industry experience, as chief executive.

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From auto dealers, they zero in on people purchasing expensive cars.

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And auto sales, fueled by zero-percent financing offered by manufacturers, are surging and could even hit a record this month.

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The major auto makers will soon have their own zero-emissions vehicles, which Mr. Musk says will end Tesla's credits boom by year end.

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The government also announced earlier this month a new round of stimulus for the auto industry, cutting industrial production taxes to near zero in some cases and causing new car prices to drop by an average of 10 percent.

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Sirius has zero control over the degree to which the auto industry is prospering, but if you think auto sales will continue to pick up, as I do, then this is a call on the whole industry.

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"As a public company, stock is our currency, " explains the company's chief, Steven Schneider, who took the top job when Zap, which stands for "zero air pollution, " bought Schneider's auto repossession business in 2002.

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Instead, GM has become what one might call America's subprime auto maker, increasingly dependent on cheap credit, fueled by the Federal Reserve's near-zero interest rate policy, to support its made-in-China production strategy.

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