PARIS (AP) -- Sizzling, sleek designs for a carbon-conscious world headlined today as global automakers rolled out their latest high-tech models at the Paris auto show, hoping for rebound in a struggling car market.
Hybrids and other fuel-efficient, lower-emission vehicles took front seat as CEOs and other top executives strolled out onto well-lit stages to trumpet their engineering innovations and strategies to tap hot markets like China.
Ford CEO Alan Mulally said he feels "really good" about where the Dearborn-based automaker is heading and is pleased it "chose to invest during the harshest of times."
Ford is making the Focus its world car, hoping to make some 2 million vehicles off the same platform by 2012 to reap economies of scale. The U.S. giant previously had a strategy of one Focus platform for each major region.
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