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Thanks to big cutbacks at Ford and GM, North America production will suffer one of the steepest fourth quarter declines in years and is not expected to rise again until third-quarter 2007.
Hear Ward's AutoWorld Editor Drew Winter's latest take on the auto industry in his weekly report on Detroit's WJR radio:
