Forbes ranks 10 most powerful women in autos

With talk of Mary Barra as one of four potential successors to Dan Akerson as CEO of General Motors, it seems like ripe time to take a step back and acknowledge the most powerful women in the auto industry. Forbes made that easy for us by compiling a top-10 list, and sitting at the top is no other than Mary Barra. That was a no-brainer, after watching her "No more crappy cars" speech at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit in October, but who would fill out the rest of the list and in what order remained a mystery.

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