Detroit's car industry is changed, but not as Washington planned

Detroit

WHEN US President Barack Obama visits Detroit's annual car show on Jan 20, exactly one year before he leaves office, he is expected to tout how much the industry has changed since he orchestrated a federally funded rescue in 2009.

But many of the changes on display at the city's annual car show will not reflect the green transport revival that the president envisioned. "We said the auto industry would have to truly change, not just pretend that it did," the president said last Saturday in a weekly radio address devoted to Detroit.