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North American International Auto Show
Detroit, Michigan
USA
January 16, 2010
Auto union leaders and union members who recently lost their jobs in the Fiat/Chrysler merger hold a demonstration outside the North American International Auto Show at the Cob center in Detroit.
Following a disastrous year that saw GM and Chrysler LLC forced into government-led bankruptcy. U.S. auto sales plunged to 39 percent below a peak in 2005 during the recent ill-founded economic boom. The big, unanswered question here, however, is what the U.S. economy will do following its longest, deepest downturn since the 1930s.
Chrysler's exhibit on the convention floor was dramatically scaled back from previous years. Chrysler's appearance, on the other hand, was more of a car wreck, critics said during press previews.
