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Slovakia used to boast it was Europe's Detroit. But then came along the economic crisis.
"Estimates had called for Slovakian production to reach 800,000 cars in 2008 and to top 1 million in 2009. Instead, production last year stayed at 2007 levels, and some analysts expect production to fall by a fifth this year."
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