Made in the USA? Ford slips, Toyota rises

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Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. said last week its December U.S. sales fell, but it still overtook Ford Motor Co. as No. 2 in U.S. sales for both the month and the full year.

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Made in the USA? Ford slips, Toyota rises

Ford Motor had been in second place in the American car market since the Great Depression. But it lost its grip last year. Toyota beat Ford in 2007 in United States auto sales, putting it behind General Motors, industry statistics showed Thursday. Ford had held the No. 2 spot since 1931, according to the company’s historian.

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Unionized auto workers in this country average nearly $65 an hour, Toyota workers about $45 an hour. While that might sound like a recommendation for unions, remember which automakers are losing billions of dollars, closing plants and laying off tens of thousands of workers. That's right, nonunion Toyota — which is not laying off its nearly 40,000 American workers and is, in fact, increasing its sales in this country as overall U.S. car sales decline — is not among them.

Ford (like Hillary) can't even boast about being #2

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I'm sorry, but it so far past time for Detroit to start seriously focusing American ingenuity on producing the next generation of fuel-efficient vehicles. Discovering a way to slash not just this nation's but the entire world's dependence on oil would be a feat worthy of several dozen Nobel Prizes.