Texas Auto Trade Schools

The best thing that might be said about the year the auto industry - and an economically battered nation – is preparing to close: it probably can’t get any worse.

The year 2009 brought two high-profile bankruptcies, billions of dollars in government bailouts and funding for Cash for Clunkers and thousands of lost jobs. Similar upheaval – though not as catastrophic as predicted – came to the tightly integrated supplier industry. Several historic brands were relegated to the archives.

And those are just the major stories.