Of course, people are required to get auto and homeowners insurance all the time.
If you are a sluggard in paying bills and have a low credit score, are you more likely to get into auto accidents?
That makes auto loans easier to get, which greases the skids for more U.S. auto sales.
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Keep in mind, too, that when auto sales get off that 12 million bottom and return to a more normal 16 or 17 million units a year, manufactures will need to produce an additional 4 or 5 million vehicles.
We knew the auto industry had to get leaner, had to get tougher, had to be more competitive.
The former Boeing (nyse: BA - news - people ) executive will surely want a chance to get up to speed on the auto industry and Ford's troubles before diving into any talks of a three-way global alliance.
And I can assure you the President's goal is to get out of the equity business in auto companies as quickly as possible.
Lee Iacocca, for example, was only one of several auto-industry heavyweights to get caught in an oil-and-gas tax shelter that ran into trouble (FORBES, June 4).
Director of Research at IHS Automotive, and a Forbes contributor, to get her take on how Sandy will impact auto sales in the weeks ahead.
Regardless of how you choose to track your auto expenses, the knowledge you get from doing so will put you in the driver's seat when it comes to figuring out how much your vehicle is costing you to operate and documenting its value when it's time to get rid of it.
And Magna will likely get more business in a tough year for the auto industry.
"What the auto companies are hoping for is to get money in that package for themselves, " Langfitt says.
The new cameras offer great features such as Canon's Smart AUTO, enabling even novice users to get optimal camera performance automatically, so whether photographing a running child or a solo recital on stage the cameras deliver spectacular images with ease.
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Users will also get automatic updates to Flash, via the browsers own auto-update feature, Upson wrote.
At the Detroit Auto Show he was in a rush to get back to Germany.
In the auto industry the union has been unable to get a toehold in the plants of foreign automakers.
That provides the auto manufactures with a huge advantage once they get all the dealerships lined-up to sell cars over the internet.
But Americans have to get back and forth to work and school, so auto repair seems like a necessity for job security.
Ask an auto mechanic, however, and you might get a different story.
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Adding to its appeal, the camera also features Smart AUTO, which provides an effortless way to get great images in many situations.
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Detroit will always be the engineering center of the American auto industry, but the only way to get in step with technological leaders is to put yourself in their company.
Visitors to the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit will get to see five Chevrolet models that were neither developed in the U.S., nor sold here.
When you combine that with the savings you might get from better rates on things like credit cards and auto loans, you start to see why a good credit score is important to your financial success.
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Several auto makers have opened offices in Silicon Valley to get plugged in to the rapidly shifting online-services market.
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You can get fatter coupons on bonds from, say, a nice auto company or airline, but you will lose some of your principal doing that.
He'll discuss the steps we took to get our economy back on track, including saving the American auto industry, which has created approximately 200, 000 new jobs since the spring of 2009.
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Folks in Detroit and in auto communities across the country know what it takes to get the job done.
Los Angeles is a town where people like to get noticed for what they drive, and expect to be served the auto industry's freshest ideas.
Because the Transformer robots turn into cars, Bay was also able to get freebies from gm--as he had earlier, when the auto company contributed flood-damaged cars for Bad Boys.
Marchionne had tried to get other carmakers to back a government-led restructuring of the European auto industry, similar to what occurred in the U.S., but could not muster enough support.
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