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In an encouraging sign of the auto industry’s modest recovery, the number of car dealerships increased in the first half of 2011 by 0.4 percent, the first increase in 10 years, according to Urban Science, a Detroit-based retail consultant.

The Federation of Automotive Products Manufacturers and Ford Australia have warned the inquiry that governments must not desert component and carmaking.

The auto industry-hating tree-huggers view the Woodward Dream Cruise as the ultimate stick in the eye to environmentalists worldwide. Thousands of cars idling in bumper to bumper traffic with no particular place to go - just being there consuming barrels of oil and spewing pollutants into the air.

According to national economic development publication "Business Facilities," Tennessee leads the nation in auto manufacturing strength, and industry analysts said they aren’t surprised by that ranking.

U.S. automakers rebounded in July to boost production by the most since the Japan crisis. But builders broke ground on fewer single-family houses, leaving home construction at depressed levels.