Detroit is once again betting on the car industry to rescue it
But the Motor City’s health will depend on more than motor cars
Journalists visiting Detroit on September 14th and 15th were given two quite different views of its future. On the 14th, the opening day of the first North American International Auto Show to be hosted in Detroit since 2019, they watched through a window as Joe Biden clambered into a new bright-orange petrol-powered Chevrolet Corvette, and later drove an electric Cadillac suv across the floor. In a speech that followed, the president, a self-professed “car guy”, drew a direct link between cars and prosperity. “American manufacturing is back. Detroit is back. America’s back,” he declared.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Revving up”
United States September 24th 2022
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- Donald Trump faces a sweeping new lawsuit
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- Detroit is once again betting on the car industry to rescue it
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