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Yes, but the auto-industry only really works if you can get in the supplies. Not going to say its impossible, but it'd be difficult to save something when you're still blocked off from usable commercial ports by fascists and communists alike. And by this point, consumer purchasing ability would lie largely in used car sales. And not to mention the Big Three was really disliked in most cases by their own workers and struggled against unions.