Everything will be favorable for automakers, if they keep on progressing.

Automakers have enjoyed an unequaled run of success in the United States because of pent-up consumer demand, cheap gas prices and low interest rates. But manufacturers must continue updating their vehicles and improving technology to keep the good times rolling.

Ralph Waldo Emerson is often credited with the observation that "the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow". While those words do appear in his 1875 collection of essays, Letters and Social Aims, they appear in quotation, attributed to a " lady" to whom he listened " with admiring submission".