Software, consultancy and mobile telephones use far less oil than steel or car production.
Car production in China approximates 19 million units, far above our 14.5 million run rate.
Ford and Chrysler had to halt car production for lack of transport and the chemicals makers complained to Congress.
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Thursday's holiday will affect car production at Maruti by around 5, 000 units, a person with knowledge of the situation said.
Such comments carry added weight within Government since the debacles over BMW selling Rover and Ford ending car production at Dagenham.
In some industries, notably car production, a rebound is plainly under way.
The company remains a force in the British motor industry, even without Rover's volume-car production, as Mr Milberg is understandably anxious to point out.
In 1994, German luxury car-maker BMW announced the purchase of Rover from British Aerospace, ending nearly a century of independent mass car production in Britain.
Alex Kinmont, an investment analyst for Morgan Stanley, points out that the domestic overcapacity in Japan's car market is equivalent to Britain's total car production.
Opel has said it will end car production at its Bochum manufacturing plant in Germany in 2016 after production of its Zafira Tourer car ends.
Much car production in Mercosur is there to avoid trade barriers.
Figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders showed that UK car production reached 120, 000 cars last month, up 22% from a year earlier.
Car production in the UK has hit a four-year high and car exports have registered a record high, despite a deep slump in European vehicle sales.
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Or maybe Ford is just grasping for reasons to justify the billions of dollars it is spending to retool three North American truck factories for small car production.
Many low-cost car producers have set up shop in India, and McKinsey believes it could become a global hub for small-car production the way the U.S. is for pickups.
Jud Gilbert, a Michigan state senator who opposes film subsidies, points out that if he could offer a 42% rebate on car production, that industry would not be in crisis.
General Motors, Chrysler and Toyota have cut back on trucks and accelerated the production of small cars, but Ford is going a step further by converting truck plants to car production.
The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan and massive flooding in Thailand whacked Japanese car production, adding to the woes created by the yen's rise in the past few years.
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But both GM and other car makers in Europe believe that the only way to fend off competition from low-cost countries, and thus retain car production in Western Europe, is to improve productivity.
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When Ford was gearing up car production in England at the start of the 1930s, the mayor of the town where he was building "the Detroit of Europe, " Dagenham, saw an opportunity to get a philanthropic donation.
As far as the future is concerned, he hopes that his company will become a leader in car production and that he'll get to work on more new innovative projects, helping to drive Croatia's economy in the right direction.
With no need to pay dividends (state firms do not have to make any transfers to central government) and little shareholder pressure to ensure that their investment is cost-effective, Chinese firms went on a capital-spending binge, concentrated in industries such as aluminium, steel, car production and cement.
In December, Opel said it would end car production at its Bochum manufacturing plant in Germany in 2016, with the loss of up to 3, 300 jobs at the factory, plus many more with suppliers, while Fiat has said it will cut 1, 500 jobs at its plant in Tychy in Poland.
If the yet-to-be-named car is a success when it goes on sale next year, it would herald the emergence of Tata Motors on the global auto scene, mark the advent of India as a global center for small-car production and represent a victory for those who advocate making cheap goods for potential customers at the "bottom of the pyramid" in emerging markets.
Big, sophisticated robot systems used on car-production lines can cost millions of dollars.
And as a student he had worked during the holidays in various factories belonging to the Fiat group: on a car-production line in Poland, in a dealership in France and in a component factory in the English Midlands, where he boarded with a very ordinary English family.
It had a top speed of 150 mph, which at the time made it the fastest production car in the world.
The federal government started to step up its funding for electric car research and production, including the use of lithium-ion batteries.
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It's worth repeating: The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport is the fastest production car in the world--faster than an underwater torpedo or a bullet train.
For example, if a car on one production line sold badly and a model on another line sold well Fiat could not move workers across under the old rules.
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