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| [00:00.00] | Car manufacturers in the United States |
| [00:04.77] | reported their best results so far this year in August, |
| [00:07.82] | in large part due to a government scheme |
| [00:10.25] | aimed at encouraging people to trade in their old cars |
| [00:12.86] | for more fuel-efficient new ones. |
| [00:14.60] | The top results among American carmakers were posted by Ford |
| [00:18.27] | which saw its sales rise by 17% from August of last year. |
| [00:22.56] | The results held increase US manufacturing output as a whole |
| [00:26.30] | for the first time since January of last year. |
| [00:28.85] | President Obama said the latest figures indicate |
| [00:32.21] | that the American economy is on the path to recovery. |