Photo: #The Ford Ranger, like this one for sale at a dealership in Inver Grove Heights, is made at the company's assembly plant in St. Paul. Ford has announced it will keep the plant open an extra two years, until 2011.
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The Ford Ranger, like this one for sale at a dealership in Inver Grove Heights, is made at the company's assembly plant in St. Paul. Ford has announced it will keep the plant open an extra two years, until 2011. (MPR photo/Tom Weber)

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The future of the U.S. auto industry

Broadcast: Midday, 04/01/2009, 11:00 a.m.

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Two longtime auto industry experts discuss President Obama's latest actions to save General Motors and Chrysler, talk about how we got to this point, and predict what the future holds for the U.S auto industry.

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  • Paul Ingrassia: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former Wall Street Journal Detroit Bureau Chief. Author of "Comeback: The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile Industry."
  • Jim Harbour: Worked for two decades at Chrysler and Ford, and founded The Harbour Report. Author of "Factory Man: How Jim Harbour Discovered Toyota's Quality and Productivity Methods and Helped the U.S. Auto Industry Get Competitive."

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