For the first time since 1970, Pontiac was the number
three domestic car maker in America.
But with the other two of the Big
Three domestic car makers each offering a pair of subcompact crossovers, how long can the Blue Oval afford to stay away from this party?
Just
three domestic cars beat the 1.2 percent average: Ford Taurus at 1.8 percent, Chevrolet Impala at 1.5 percent and Chrysler Pacifica at 1.3 percent.
Not exact matches
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domestic auto industryFree allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.
Sequestered to the Japanese
domestic market for its first five generations, the GT - R evolved from something of a
three - quarter - scale muscle
car to a singular technological tour de force.
Jason Cammisa hit the nail on the head with his initial review of the Genesis coupe: Fans of
domestic pony
cars will not be interested in this new Hyundai, even though it shares so many specs with those Big
Three poster children.
Sure, they released the
three - door hatch - based Civic Type - R in Europe, but it simply wasn't the
car the Japanese
domestic version was.
The
car obliterated the competition in Japan's
domestic touring races, winning 52 races in its first
three years of competition.
Even if Chrysler weren't selling versions of it, choosing an Expo would be almost as complicated as ordering a
domestic car: It is available in six models,
three of them five - passenger designs called «LRV» and
three of them longer, seven - passenger models.
In the past 16 years,
domestic automakers have won North American
Car of the Year eight times, Japanese automakers
three times, European automakers four times.
Add in the fact that the Avalon is being built at Toyota's factory in Georgetown, Kentucky, and you've got a
car that's arguably more
domestic than some of the products coming from the Detroit
Three these days.