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• n  a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles

• Toyota is on pace to overtake troubled General Motors as the world's largest automaker by 2010.
• It's very expensive to operate a plant in California, notes a senior executive with another Japanese automaker.
• Last week in one of those ironic twists of business history, VW, the former ugly duckling but now Europe's largest automaker, plunked down $703 million in cash to buy Rolls-Royce .

• car manufacturer
• car maker
• carmaker
• auto manufacturer
• auto maker

News & Articles

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• This Automaker Is Unstoppable
  This Automaker Is Unstoppable        
  June 13, 2013 - The Motley Fool
• GM's Barra: Automaker working on cutting costs
  General Motors Co.'s global product chief told analysts Wednesday that the automaker is working to boost its operating margins by working with suppliers, using more global vehicle architectures and components across its footprint and by cutting logistics costs.
  June 13, 2013 - Detroit News
• Can This Automaker Race Towards Its Goal?
  Can This Automaker Race Towards Its Goal?        
  June 12, 2013 - The Motley Fool

Quotes

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• Lewis Booth in AFP
  We're still continuing to negotiate with (Chinese automaker) Geeley (Automobile Holdings) and we're committed to selling Volvo,Booth said. "Volvo will be sold."
• John Engler in Dayton Business Journal
  Because the auto industry is "highly integrated," Engler said, "a failure of one automaker could have a crippling impact on the entire supply chain."
• Barack Obama in The Japan Times
  Obviously, Toyota has been an extraordinary automaker for a very long time, and I suspect that they will continue to be, despite this recent glitch,Obama said.