By 1928 Chrysler had acquired Dodge Brothers and become one of the big three auto makers.
Well, a big part of it was the decision to downsize so they could pay off those three auto loans and put up a big, fat 35% down payment.
Over the next week, the President will travel to Detroit and Chicago where he will meet with auto workers and tour plants of each of the big three auto makers.
Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people) said today it will idle three auto-production plants because of its Firestone tire recall, taking 6, 000 workers off the production lines.
Ford, Toyota and Honda I think represent the next three biggest auto dealers.
We used the equity from our old house to pay off three small auto loans and to make a 35% down payment on our new house.
Following the death of the charismatic Reuther, the low-key Woodcock was immediately thrust into national contract negotiations with with the "Big Three" auto companies and led the union through a bitter 67-day nationwide strike against General Motors, longest ever.
In the three-years Auto-By-Tel has been in operation it has signed up a network of 2, 700 dealers, who pay the firm a monthly fee of several thousand dollars in return for exclusive rights to an Auto-By-Tel territory.
Michigan has lost three-quarters of its auto jobs the past decade as General Motors, Ford and Chrysler struggled.
And three years later, the American auto industry is back.
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And because of its low price and icon status, Tata's new model should also swipe customers from Hero Honda and other two- and three-wheel manufacturers like Bajaj Auto and TVS Motor.
Three years later, the American auto industry is back. (Applause.) GM is back on top as the number-one automaker in the world -- (applause) -- highest profits in its 100-year history.
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But the Detroit auto industry has now had three decades to come up with fuel efficient products that are also fun to drive and reliable.
Michigan, Louisiana and Oklahoma are the top three states with the most expensive average auto insurance premiums, according to market data company QuinStreet via Insure.com.
It's a less sophisticated auto-overclock, whereby three of the six cores are decelerated in order to give the other trio some extra voltage and speed for more serialized workloads.
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In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Toyota's president said he is putting new auto plants on hold for three years and reshaping the automaker's structure to give more autonomy to regional divisions and foreign executives.
However, passenger car traffic on most bridge and crossings will be limited to a minimum of three people, after a day of auto congestion resulting from cars being one of the only ways of getting to and around the city.
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It's auto coverage, which rakes in three times the premiums that home policies do.
The Chicago Auto Show just ended its nearly three-week run in my hometown.
"He's probably the nicest guy you'll ever meet, " said Lonnie Daniels, the 69-year-old owner of the NAPA Auto Parts store, one of three establishments in town that was open Saturday.
Advocates for the automakers argue that the government must act now if it is to save the domestic auto industry, as the Big Three automakers -- General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler -- continue to report bad news.
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And getting back to your last guest, the thing that the auto industry looks at - really three things that they look at - are the strength of the housing market, the strength of jobs and consumer confidence when they go to predict how the industry is going to do.
Losers were led by Bajaj Auto, maker of two- and three-wheel vehicles, down 7.4% despite a jump in sales for December.
But by no means should the Big Three, their suppliers, dealers or the United Auto Workers union breathe a sigh of relief.
Its three-wheelers are widely used throughout India as auto rickshaws, which you will not be seeing at the Detroit auto show any time soon.
What that means is, even after three years of double-digit improvement, 2012 auto sales will still be nearly 1.8 million below 2007, when sales were 16.2 million.
The Big Three are headed for tough contract negotiations with the United Auto Workers next year.
Bajaj Auto, a maker of scooters, motorcycles and three-wheelers, has had a similar experience with liberalisation.
That Cerberus was able to garner support from the three unions represented on the DaimlerChrylser board -- the Canadian Auto Worker's Union, Germany's IG Metall, and the UAW -- is a marked achievement.
In exchange for a more substantial energy-bill savings (5-10% of the summer's air-conditioning tariff), participating customers agree to an "Auto-Tune" of their Nest, a three-week adjustment period where the algorithms plan a regime that routinely rejiggers air-conditioning use during the day.
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