They hope to develop small cars to sell in the $10,000 to $12,000 range.

Moreover, the approach has done little to reduce the time that it takes to develop a new car.

One of its first projects is developing a car that gets 100 miles per gallon.

The money will be used to develop new cars and overhaul production lines.

Still, because it takes years to develop new cars, automakers have been at work.

A plan for developing a car that would go 80 miles on a gallon of gas was announced.

And some are developing new cars with an eye to how they will appeal to second buyers.

G.M. used to take five years to develop a car.

Audi developed a new car and wanted to promote it.

There have been several projects aiming to develop a car on the principles of open design.