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new cars - auto industry The stage is set for a recovery in certain industries. They've been hit hard the last three years, pounded by a slow economy. But now things are starting to change, and if you believe the worst is over, then these sectors should see good advances in 2011.

Car Companies: They're hiring. Toyota Motors (TM) just announced the re-opening of its Mississippi plant after being dormant for two years. It needs 2,000 workers. GM (GM) is hiring 1,000 engineers and researchers in Michigan over the next two years focused on hybrid and electric cars. Chrysler is looking for 1,000 engineers and others to create small and midsize vehicles in its partnership with Italy's Fiat. Fiat controls Chrysler. Ford is the most healthy of the U.S. producers, having never touched government funds.

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At this coming week's 2010 North American International Auto Show, automakers are expected to try to put the dismal past year behind them and move on to whatever futures await.

Two of the U.S. auto industry's largest and oldest players, GM and Chrysler, tumbled into bankruptcy last year and required a handout from from the federal government to save them from liquidation. Was it worth it? Investors, analysts, and car enthusiasts will be looking for answers this week.

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Ford Motor (F) has been on all the right tracks lately. The only U.S.-based automaker to not take a government handout and who had been making cars and trucks customers actually want, Ford now rules the roost for domestic cars and trucks. Even its eco-friendly stance has been in high gear with sales of its hybrid vehicles and commitment to greener automotive technology.

That is, when it isn't in some macho face-off with the still-floundering General Motors. Americans love their large V8 engines, and with GM's Camaro selling very well (an unusual high point for the company), Ford will be responding by introducing larger and more powerful V8 engine into its Mustang line to meet Camaro's challenge. In other words, the same one-upsmanship challenge that exists for decades.

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In the current age of anti-SUV vehicle-buying sentiment from the U.S. public, American automakers have had a tumultuous time trying to shift directions on a dime. Consumer sentiment can change with the wind, and triggers like a 50% increase in gas prices can come out of nowhere to completely obliterate profit margins of automakers that aren't in tune with those changes.

Toyota Motor Co. (NYSE: TM) is one automaker that seems to have seen this day coming years ago as it had early editions of hybrid vehicles on showroom floors and in volume long before other mass-market competitors. Sure, Honda and General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) were there with experiments too, but the Prius hybrid from Toyota stole the show.

Even now, with gas prices marching ever upward, both GM and Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) have been slow moving with hybrid vehicle introductions. In 2006, Ford's Escape small SUV was a great seller and the company is poised for more. What is in GM's back pocket?

Not much. At least not publicly. Projects like the GM Volt and E85 cars and trucks are there, but what about gas/electric hybrids? Nada. And the maddening part is, GM has the stuff to make it happen. What if GM came out with an iconic American nameplate (as in, a sports car brand) that had muscle and great gas mileage? Like matching a new hybrid system with GM's V8 Camaro (a Chevy product)? That could happen...but it's not. Why not?

GM could take the U.S. market by storm by having a sports car or slick entry into the fast-growing hybrid market soon (like, now). The automaker made a slight profit in its last quarter. Taking the lead in hybrid technology could be a major save for the company, although it still faces an uphill battle; it's own inertia toward innovation, for example. Without it, how does it hope to fend off nimble, ferocious Toyota?

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