European auto makers also worry that the Japanese can make life tough for them in other ways.

Europe is proposing a completely different standard, proposed by European makers.

Many European auto makers have fallen short of the car standards and paid penalties.

European auto makers captured 3.6 percent, up from 3 percent in the first two months of the last model year.

European makers of industrial equipment, for which the United States is a large market, could also suffer.

European auto makers also continued to report year-over-year sales increases.

Now they, as well as European makers, are barging in.

European auto makers are predicted to double their share in the next four years, to 2.6 percent in 2000.

Indeed, most European auto makers are pursuing similar strategies.

European auto makers enjoyed far more protection from Japan.