AUTOLINE ON AUTOBLOG: Six Quarters to Doomsday
August 13th, 2008 at 12:00pm
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2010 is shaping up to be a pivotal year in the American auto industry. From a product standpoint there will be a lot of interesting hardware in showrooms, including range-extending EVs, plug-in hybrids, clean diesels, pure electrics, and flex-fuel vehicles running on cellulosic ethanol. But it’s also shaping up to be the year when the domestic industry will . . .
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August 13th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
John,
“Who would have ever thought ALL new (retro-mobile) ‘pony’ cars imply FOREIGN vehicles?”
Say Foreign?
Apologies to FORD, MUSTANG is considered ‘foreign’ product by the U.S. Government.
Newly introduced CHRYSLER and future GM wares are NAFTA product as Canada is NOT ‘Made In U.S.A.’!
No need to trouble yourself wondering why DETROIT’S historic ‘BIG 3′ can’t make adequate profits selling cheap to produce (not to purchase) FOREIGN nostalgic copies of American Muscle cars.
Sad as all are mechanically superior to the originals now with absent DETROIT pedigree!
LOST opportunity once again …