The word "automotive" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used as an adjective or noun to refer to the car industry or products related to cars. For example: "My brother is studying automotive engineering in college".
He argued the UK needed to look to other countries for opportunities including in China, where planned growth in the automotive sector is "equivalent to adding the whole UK car industry, every year".
"With less than 2% of the world's car output and with no British-made large commercial aircraft, we cannot expect much UK influence on standards or policy in either automotive or aerospace".
He added: "We saw in automotive the battering our industry took in the 70s, 80s and 90s before fighting back.
On a nearby white board were instructions about automotive repair that could just as well been a campaign memo about the renovation of Clinton's image.
In automotive, much of the output from the car plants here goes to the EU.
A spokeswoman for the commission said the modelling scenarios had been adjusted to reflect announcements by Holden and Toyota that they plan to cease automotive manufacturing in Australia.
Hitachi's automotive-parts firms among 440 Japanese companies supplying carmakers in China—have been hit by the consumer boycott of Japanese cars.
Closing down much of Chrysler would enrage government, the unions, the dealers and the automotive-parts suppliers, all of whom GM depends upon.
It might lead to deals in a host of other industries too, despite Mr Schrempp's assurances as the deal was announced that Daimler will hold on to its non-automotive businesses.But the biggest question is whether the two companies can make this merger work.
Car production plunged by 51% in January, according to the country's automotive-industry association.
The United States and several Latin American countries had complained to the WTO about the practice.Spinning offAmerica's Rockwell International plans to spin off its automotive-components business, which had sales of over $3 billion last year, into a separately traded company.
