To some extent this does depend upon the over capacity or not in the car manufacturing industry but believe me, the way things have been this past couple of decades a buyer looking for tens of thousands of cars a year can pretty much write his own price.
TBM, a manufacturing consultancy based in North Carolina, it is the truck industry that is successfully showing how to disintegrate car manufacturing.
But the Mexican economy has proved resilient, with manufacturing performing well, especially the car industry.
Ironically, Ford may have been a direct beneficiary of the woeful state of British manufacturing in general, and its car industry in particular, in the 1960s and 1970s.
Russia, the world's ninth-largest economy, is seeking to diversify away from oil and gas and under President Vladimir Putin has made developing its manufacturing base, particularly the Russian car industry, an economic policy priority.
Manufacturing is growing thanks to the recovering car industry, but even so the sector has recouped only a quarter of its 20% plunge in employment between 2007 and early 2010.
Eventually the organisation of car manufacturing may begin to resemble production in the consumer-electronics industry, where the adoption of industry-wide standards (along with de facto standards, such as the Intel microprocessor) has enabled suppliers to become highly specialised.
Marco Piquini, a Sao Paulo car-industry consultant who helped Fiat, argues that by carefully tweaking the manufacturing process this way Fiat could swiftly increase production to meet demand.
The crisis in the steel industry has been caused by the downturn in the two main markets, construction and car manufacturing.
The treasury was run by Paul O'Neill, the former chairman of the giant manufacturing company Alcoa, and Andrew Card, Chief of Staff, was formerly a senior car industry lobbyist.
By 2012 ten of the world's biggest car companies will be manufacturing up to 1.6m vehicles a year in Russia, with a large components industry growing up around them.
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