US auto industry

Video: Car industry in death throes

 

 
 GM’s birthplace reels from car-industry crisis 
 

Al Jazeera’s Sebastian Walker reports from Flint, Michigan, the town where the US car giant General Motors was born. Now, it is more famous as the place where the industry has started to die.

The huge vehicle assembly plants which used to be Flint’s economic mainstay now stand idle, victims of a steady decline of US car sales in recent years.