The car industry started off as an art, people hand-shaping the bodies, hand-building the engines.
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Yet taking the car industry very far into Dell territory would quickly run into problems.
In the car industry, indeed, China has one of the worst cost structures anywhere.
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And it could even mean the government taking a stake in the car industry.
Ghosn "has a perspective on the global car industry that very few people have, " Dodge says.
Even China's car industry, which is alive with competitors, is coming further under the government umbrella.
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In the car industry, Mitsubishi Motors wants to abolish its entire seniority-based pay structure this April.
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In any event, Mexico sees its car industry as part of a global supply chain.
But to see how such ideas might work, consider two changes in the car industry.
Indeed, barriers to exit sometimes seem greater than barriers to entry in the European car industry.
But Ford and GM are too important to Europe's car industry to make that probable.
Henry Ford was the car industry, until he named the Edsel after his grandson.
Unlike the car industry, foreign health insurance companies play very little role in the U.S. market.
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And yet the car industry could still provide a valuable example for others to follow.
But the Mexican economy has proved resilient, with manufacturing performing well, especially the car industry.
GM's demise should not be read as a harbinger of doom for the car industry.
But as Fiat itself shows, fortunes in the car industry can turn with extraordinary rapidity.
The car industry could probably now cope with an implosion of the assemblers, thinks Mr Murray.
For the car industry, he has moved from tough love towards the unconditional sort.
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Worse, when the feast is over the car industry is likely to lurch towards famine.
The car industry is bucking the downward trend in most of Europe (see article).
The Competition Commission is to complete its report on the car industry by the end of January.
The patent dispute is just another headache for recall-plagued Toyota and, potentially, for the whole car industry.
One consequence is that the mudslinging of the computer industry is spilling over into the car industry.
Protected from Asian imports, the car makers will hesitate to cut Brazil's car industry down to size.
Unlike most German car industry bosses, Mr Pischetsrieder does not litter his business card with impressive qualifications.
To its credit (and under increasing pressure from legislators), the car industry is heeding Mr Ghosn's call.
But the map of the world car industry looks as if it has already been drawn up.
The car industry is understood to have lobbied ministers to make quick decisions on the loans and guarantees.
Norilsk Nickel, which supplies the car industry with palladium, platinum and rhodium, is looking to expand its operations.
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