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...musing of bank presidents are a bad set of leading economic indicators. So is news that a car company which is already insolvent will not need money today. It will need that money tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow. There is no point in denying that much of what happened and much of what was said as the stock market reclaimed milestone after milestone was better than most of the news over the last three or four months. But, the reaction of the stock market was that the glass had become half full in a matter of a few hours...
America's car companies are still operating on the premise that the new car market will recover in a year or two. It may not rebound from its current annual run-rate of 10 million light vehicles to more than 16 million where it was three years ago, but surely it will get back to 14 million to 15 million...
...There are several reasons this may not happen and they will make being in the business of making and selling new cars less attractive even when the recession ends. The U.S. car companies will have to augment what they do now to become profitable and remain profitable because the business that they were in for a century has changed too much. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...Between feed and the ethanol industry they did well. As a matter of fact, the ethanol industry had a supplier and that allowed the alternative energy movement to grow into an industry. Alternative use of assets is central to a number of industries that need to be revitalized. The car business has a chance to use its strengths to gain back some of its vitality permanently if it can make this transition...
...stages of car ownership that work to the benefit of the car company and its dealers begin when the consumer buys a car, but often ends when the auto warranty expires. Once car owners have to pay real cash to keep their vehicles running, they often try to find alternatives to dealer-based service. The small business website Manta lists 135, 967 auto repair shops in its directory. There are probably many more than that but getting an accurate count of businesses that may employ only one or two people is almost impossible. The National Automobile Dealers Association, in contrast...