Detroit Is Back From The Brink, But Do They Have What It Takes To Keep Off Welfare?

We’re back. And now the world knows it, proclaimed local Detroit talk show host Paul W. Smith, as he addressed a gathering of industry insiders and dealers who had gathered in the back of Detroit’s Cobo Hall to celebrate the debut of the 2013 North American International Auto Show earlier this week.

Only a few years earlier, in the same room, many of the same people had come together to nurse their wounds with whiskey and cigars and ignore the desperate mood on a show floor where it wasn’t clear which carmakers might survive the U.S. automotive market’s worse downturn since the Great Depression.

But this year, momentum is clearly in the industry’s favor. Sales surged to 14.5 million in 2012, ending with a burst of showroom activity few had expected. And while a small minority of manufacturers, notably Toyota, predict 2013 will be relatively flat, most experts are rapidly ratcheting their numbers upward, General Motors CEO Dan Akerson this week predicting demand could reach 15.5 million. That would be the best tally since the industry hit its last peak.

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1CarSmart1 - 1/22/2013 7:53:10 AM

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Detoilet must abandon its wasteful ways. Their cars kill the earth more than SmartEuros and SmartAsians. They invent nothing, they simply copy other smarter cultures. There workers are uneducated, sloppy, slovinly, and belong to unions unconcerned with social well-being.

They must embrace the culture of the East. They must add taxes to fuels. They must end there macho-dummy ways and employ females stronger than males. They must renounce there past errors and compensate the victimized.

This will never happen and they will parrish.

trmckin - 1/22/2013 12:21:38 PM

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Speaking of uneducated... There, their, they're.. Parrish or perish?

Tell us more about how China is saving the earth. Can't wait for this one!!! I'll go look at some GL450's, M5's, and Aston's while I wait. You know.. those smart earth saving euro cars.

1CarSmart1 - 1/22/2013 1:51:07 PM

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By the east, I refer to Japan/Korea. China was ruined by British rule.

1CarSmart1 - 1/22/2013 1:53:24 PM

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GL450, M5's, Aston are all very expensive cars that yahoos americans cannot afford in great enough quantities to hurt the Earth.

F-150, Silverado, Ram, Chrysler 300, Jeep, Corvette, Mercury Marquis are quite the opposite!!