SUGAR LAND, TX--(Marketwire - Nov 14, 2012) - Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Looking ahead to what the U.S. automotive sector will do in 2013, we see that spending is expected to be slow at the beginning of the year for a variety of reasons. Industrial Info is currently tracking only 146 capital or maintenance projects worth an estimated $758 million within the automotive sector that have a planned construction start date in 2013. However, with sales consistently increasing on a monthly basis and each of the automakers increasing their projections for sales and production on a monthly basis, spending will not stay this low for long.