How to Use automaker in a Sentence

automaker

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  • Now the automaker returns to the silver screen with a new short called The Calm.
    — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 16 May 2023
  • This comes as shares of the automaker have slumped nearly 15% this year and more than 5% over the past month.
    — Sean Conlon, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The strike against the Detroit automakers is dealing a blow to the U.S. steel market.
    — Bob Tita, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2023
  • However, the vote does not mean there will be a strike at any of the three automakers.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The low price of imports is the reason automakers turned to those supplies in the first place.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The commission will look into whether the act gives it the power to do the same thing with automakers.
    — Tom Krisher, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The British automaker will close the books on its gas-engine era with special editions of the F-Pace.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 22 May 2024
  • Think Tesla was the first automaker to use a yoke-style steering wheel?
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 26 May 2022
  • The British automaker unveiled its first EV, the Spectre, last fall.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, seems to be treading that path.
    — Lawrence Ulrich, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Wage hikes Workers at all Big 3 automakers will see a 25% increase in their hourly pay across the four-and-half years of the contract.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • But today's actions are part of the automaker's Ford + growth plan.
    — Ed Garsten, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • The top three automakers all reported profits in the first quarter of this year.
    — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 12 July 2023
  • Under the mandate, automakers will have to sell such cars, but customers won’t have to buy them.
    — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • The deal closed in May, and Foxconn took on hundreds of the automaker’s employees.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The shares without voting rights will be floated, while the rest will be sold to the automaker’s heirs, the Porsche and Piëch families.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Now production won’t start until the first half of 2024, the Swedish automaker said in a statement.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 11 May 2023
  • The system inhibited the virus's spread by as much as 97%, the automaker said.
    — Bymorgan Korn, ABC News, 26 June 2022
  • To date, there have been four fires in the U.S. associated with the defect, the automaker said.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Tesla is no longer the only automaker that’s all-in on the internet.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Both options, the automaker says, will allow the SUV to sprint from zero to 60 mph in a respectable 6.2 seconds.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 June 2022
  • The lack of a roof suggests the build is based on the Huayra Roadster BC, the second open-top version of the automaker’s sophomore hypercar.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Even the world's most valuable automaker, Tesla, hasn't been immune; its stock down is 27% this year.
    — Matt McFarland, CNN, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The contracts have prompted other automakers to raise wages to avoid strikes similar to the UAW’s.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Volkswagen isn't the only automaker to return to the list.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Adding to the intrigue—and game theoretic fun—is that this is the first time the union is moving against all three major US automakers at the same time.
    — WIRED, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The findings are the latest blow in a deepening crisis of trust for Japan’s automakers.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Asia, 3 June 2024
  • Tesla’s recall this week is the latest in a string of events that have brought scrutiny to the automaker and its software.
    — Derrick Bryson Taylor, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Related article Welcome to the New World Order of automakers.
    — Olesya Dmitracova and Chris Isidore, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Driver-assist features have increasingly become a selling point for automakers in China’s competitive electric car market.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 16 Feb. 2025

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