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Spinning Wheels.(Column)
Byline: Kevin A. Wilson
Scan mainstream news headlines about the automotive scene, and you'll be certain that Americans are fleeing from trucks and flocking to small cars and hybrids and that this is the Detroit automakers' biggest problem. Granting that the same-old same-old is not news by definition, this is, at best, a simplistic and selective reading of the facts.
First-quarter sales results are in, and the figures aren't nearly as dramatic as the headlines. We're still buying more trucks than cars: in round figures, 808,000 to 722,000 through March, according to the Automotive News Data Center. Cars are up less than 4.0 percent, trucks down by 1.6 ...
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