Possible Clues:

• By car from there, by the sound of it, or get Ted back with it
• US city associated with automobile production
• Tried to become a great city
• Runyon gambler in Motown
• Home to Rosa Parks Blvd.
• City in southeast Michigan on river of the same name
• Verifiable characteristic of Ayer's empiricism
• City also called Mo'town in USA
• US motor city
• Dottier course of action here in Michigan