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.
In the car industry, Mitsubishi Motors wants to abolish its entire seniority-based pay structure this April.
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But to see how such ideas might work, consider two changes in the car industry.
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.
One consequence is that the mudslinging of the computer industry is spilling over into the car industry.
To its credit (and under increasing pressure from legislators), the car industry is heeding Mr Ghosn's call.
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.
It has taken an ownership share in parts of the car industry and forced other sectors to reorganise.
Meanwhile, the car industry, based mostly in Ontario, has seen record sales on both sides of the border.
The Amalgamated Engineers Union was crushing what was left of the car industry.
Recent tough times in the car industry has seen Toyota try to cut costs and find new business partners.
Maintaining landline networks provides thousands of jobs (the landline operators support more pensioners than even the car industry does).
Ballard has alliances with two giants of the car industry, Ford and DaimlerChrysler.
This was the year when the UK government intervened and introduced legislation aimed at increasing competition in the car industry.
Governments have been a big brake on consolidation of the car industry, especially in Europe where it is much needed.
The car industry argues that the loss of GM itself would permanently wreck the North American supply chain (see article).
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