President Barack Obama’s top auto adviser Steve Rattner is returning to private life now that General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC have emerged from bankruptcy faster than most experts thought possible.
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The vehicles owned by the Obama administration’s auto team could reflect one reason why Detroit’s Big Three automakers are in trouble: The list includes few new American cars.

Among the eight members named Friday to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry and the 10 senior policy aides who will assist them in their work, two own American models. Add the Treasury Department’s special adviser to the task force and the total jumps to three.
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