Motor City
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That sent chills down the spines of Motor City executives who fretted—fairly perhaps—about safety and their pecking order in the world.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
In the Motor City, buyers who paid less than list price got an average of 10.3% knocked off.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 2, 2026
Motor City, it seems, is becoming Mortgage City, though the companies’ disdain for each other makes Ford Motor’s and General Motors’ rivalry pale in comparison.
From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026
Apple is trying to bring machine learning to Motor City.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2025
The Motor City, which hasn’t been dubbed Motown yet, becomes for a time the “Arsenal of Democracy.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
