American manufacturers may lose share in their home market

The domestic market share of U.S.-based automakers could shrink by 1.3% in 2012, according to a survey of five analysts by Bloomberg. However, they think that this setback will be somewhat alleviated by holding onto some of their gains against the Japanese automakers, which were affected the most
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MeanVulcan - 2/1/2012 11:09:23 AM

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Badgewhore2 ...NEWSFLASH! WE ARE NOT IN A FREE MARKET!

A free market does NOT consist of a trillion dollar bailout, at least $500M wasted on corruption (Solyndra), on paying off Union contributors, on creating unnecessary regulation which poses an obstacle to small business growth, higher income and corp taxes which prevent further consumption and reinvestment....NONE of this creates a sense of confidence, thus No Free Market.

Joe_Limon - 2/1/2012 11:45:46 AM

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NMO, can you explain your $55,000 number? Are you saying the entire us debt was due to the auto bailout? And not, say the decade of wars your country has sponsored? You're more entitled to $73 which is the cost of the GM and Chrysler bailout together distributed evenly among the population.

MeanVulcan - 2/1/2012 11:14:30 AM

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may lose share?

why is that news to anyone? There are a large group of buyers, like myself, who would never buy UAW products, for the reasons stated above by NoMoreOBama2012. That does not include the fact that quality and styling are lacking in almost every UAW product. I used to perform Six Sigma Improvements in these manuf and prod plants and saw first hand the sad state of the quality of union labor.