Abstract: This paper will review the automotive industry with a brief history of the industry with an overview and coverage of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats and trends. Included in this paper will be a discussion of the impact of the real GDP, the unemployment rate, and the inflation rate as measured by the CPI. A review of six economic indicators that influence the automotive industry will be discussed. This paper will describe the current …showed first 75 words of 5775 total…

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