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Automotive Industry

Cash For Clunkers Redux

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Cash for Clunkers, Voucher, Congress, Automotive Industry, Stimulus Bill, Recession, Cash for Clunkers 2009, Politics News
Ashley Rindsberg

You could save some money and feel like you've done well by the impovershed nations of the world who can't afford a Prius let alone a 1986 hot pink Camaro.

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Audi: Recession-proof?

Dave Pinter | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Automobiles, Media, Business, Automotive Industry, Future Fuel, Business News
Dave Pinter

This article originally appeared on PSFK.com. While 2008 left nearly every other automaker stranded on the side of the road, Audi managed to record i...

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What Would Moses Do?

Francine Hardaway | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Automotive Industry, Business, Economy, Big Three Automakers, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Ford, Detroit Three, Automakers, Bailout, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Gm, Chysler, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Auto Industry, Detroit, Politics News
Francine Hardaway

We should be selling cars like clothes: big family? You need a big car. Small family? You don't get to drive a Hummer for one person.

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Unions Aren't To Blame For Automakers' Woes

Mike Papantonio | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Automotive Industry, Air America Radio, Mike Papantonio, Union, Recession, Detriot, Uaw, Organized Labor, Bailout, Ring of Fire, Union Busting, Economy, United Auto Workers, Detroit Bailout, Automakers, Walmart Unions, Economic Policy Institute, Gm, Automaker Bailout, Richard Shelby, The Big 3, Epi, Big Three Automakers, Jim Demint, Detroit Three, Ford, Afl-Cio, Cars, Detroit Automakers, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Chysler, Auto Industry, Bailout Outrage, Business News
Mike Papantonio

If the centralized, organized mouthpiece for labor is destroyed, then so is the only advocacy vehicle available to the nonunion worker.

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San Francisco Partners With Shai Agassi's Electric Car Scheme, a $1 Billion Project

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 12.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Gavin Newsom, Automotive Industry, San Fransisco, Environment, Israel, Cars, Electric Car, Better Place, Gas/Electric Hybrid, Shai Agassi, Israel21c, California, Green News
Karin Kloosterman

The financial crisis is hurting Americans, but months before the hit fuel costs were already gouging into people's pockets. Some were forced to carpoo...

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Sam Stein

Big Three Spent Big On Congress Among Its Budget Choices

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: $25 Billion, Automotive Industry, Bailout Automobile Industry, Congressional Travel, Bailout Loan, Congressional Bailouts, Politics News

The newest critique of the automobile industry came yesterday when members of Congress, weighing the idea of offering the Big Three a $25 billion loan...

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Mitt Romney's Ye-Olde-Times Plan For Detroit

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Automakers, Automaker Bailout, Mitt Romney Detroit, Mitt Romney Automakers, Unemployment, Big Three Automakers, Automotive Industry, United Auto Workers, Detroit Three, Detroit, Gm, Mitt Romney, Cars, Ford, Detroit Bailout, Business News
Jeffrey Feldman

As a foray into the troubled waters of the biggest industry crisis of our time, Romney's plan epitomizes how Republicans think about the economy: by pretending we live in a Dickensian version of the Eisenhower era.

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Seeing Our Future In The American Car

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 12.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Detroit Automakers, Automotive News, Cars, Big Three Automakers, Automotive Industry, General Motors, Reframing, Framing, Economy, Detroit Three, Business News
Jeffrey Feldman

The car as the dominant form of transportation is here to stay in American life -- and here to stay for some time to come. The American cars of the past, however, will not be a part of our future.

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The Brother-in-Law of All Bailouts

Dan Becker | Posted 11.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Cars, Automaker Bailout, Bailout, Automotive Industry, Alternative Energy, Fuel Efficiency, Green News
Dan Becker

While the nation's attention was focused on that other bailout, Congress and the President awarded automakers $25 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loan guarantees.

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Midwest Auto Workers Look To Obama For Change

Dan Treul | Posted 07.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Auto Industry, Midwest Politics, Automotive Industry, Indiana, Presidential Race, Indiana Politics, Ohio, Gm, General Motors, Barack Obama, Midwest, Presidential Politics, Missouri, Rick Wagoner, Election 2008, Vote 2008, Michigan, John McCain, Michigan Politics, Home News
Dan Treul

"GM won't change anything until they have every operation overseas," says Danny. "This started back in the 1980s with Reagan... We know we're not going to get any help from McCain."

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Dark Year Ahead For Detroit's Automakers

New York Times | NICK BUNKLEY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Detroit Automaker, Car Sales, Toyota, Automotive Industry, Car Industry, Honda, Business News

The way that auto executives here have been talking, 2008 will be a bad year to sell cars and trucks in the United States. Every time one company pred...

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