1.   Also, she said, the auto finance market is different now.

2.   Amid intensifying competition in the domestic auto market, the weaker yen is giving Japanese manufacturers a clear edge overseas by making their products cheaper, analysts said.

3.   And since local authorities often own stakes in these mini-ventures, they erect protective barriers that hinder progress toward a national auto market.

4.   Another major exporter is the auto market.

5.   Any agreement to assure U.S. companies a share of the Japanese auto market, they may reason, will only create a precedent for other industries.

6.   Another obstacle, also from the auto market, is the spotty availability of the digitized roadmaps that drivers will need to utilize GPS navigation.

7.   As America and Japan face a showdown over greater access to the Japanese auto market, the journey of Jeep Cherokee No.

8.   Asian auto makers are also suffering because they are strongest in small cars, the segment of the global auto market hurt by an enormous excess of assembly plants.

9.   At issue last week was language Ruthardt had put in the rules that would have barred numerous organizations from access to the group auto insurance market.

10.   At the heart of the dispute between Chrysler and Kerkorian is a huge cash kitty that the company has built up in a healthy auto sales market.