So if you think about six million cars sales gone, that's an awful lot of people working on an awful lot of assembly lines.
Monthly sales of Japanese cars plunged 54 percent year on year, while sales of passenger cars, excluding the Japanese brands, rose 23.8 percent.
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Discounts on new luxury cars and sales of lower-priced models from luxury brands are dragging down whole lineups.
To make matters worse, it's said that Coda has sold fewer than 100 cars since sales began last spring.
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In addition to the growth in light trucks and cars, sales for heavy trucks and truck trailers have risen, and there, too, fuel standards will mean more aluminum will be used to lessen the weight of the vehicles.
No doubt, overall car sales were hurt by the disruption in supplies of Japanese cars, with sales of Toyotas falling 33%.
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In 2008, French sales of inefficient cars fell 42 percent while sales of efficient models rose 50 percent.
Growth was pretty evenly split up among vehicle types, with passenger cars and trucks sales up 18% each and crossover sales up 17%.
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Most auto makers, including Maruti, recorded higher sales of diesel cars and utility vehicles in February when overall sales fell.
Sales of cars and car parts rose by 1.6% from November, while sales of furniture and personal care products were 1.4% higher.
Browning talked with The Associated Press and other outlets at the start of the show's media days about sales, tailoring German engineered cars for American buyers, growth in sales of diesel-powered vehicles and the possible unionization of the company's U.S. factory in Tennessee.
There were 59, 346 new cars registered during the month, a rise of 7.3% on a year earlier, while sales of smaller cars rose by a third, the SMMT said.
So much so, the higher demand for compact and subcompact cars pushed April vehicle sales up 18%.
This is going to be probably the third-best year ever in sales of cars and light trucks.
Tata Motors Friday reported a 62% fall its local sales of cars and SUVs for February to 10, 613 vehicles.
Eventually, the automakers will have to slam on the brakes: retail sales of cars are probably declining at this moment.
Then we have Brazil, with first quarter sales of cars and light and heavy commercial vehicles up 4.7%, to 852, 000.
Sales of cars, especially of gasoline-run ones, have been the worst hit.
Luxury cars are reporting brisk sales in this part of the world where rising wealth is creating an expanding pool of buyers.
Fourteen people have been arrested and bailed on suspicion of fraud in relation to sales of cars bought by employees of the steelmaker Tata.
Now firms add millions of new phone subscribers to their books each month, and sales of cars, scooters and other consumer goods are surging.
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For instance, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, model year 2012 plug-in hybrid sales of cars like the Chevy Volt are running at triple the rate of last year, and hybrids are up almost 50 percent compared to 2011.
While total sales of passenger cars in China increased by 8.6 percent during the first seven months of this year, luxury car sales increased even faster at a 36.1 percent rate, and sales of large SUVs increased by 23.2 percent.
Sales at his dealership are down from about 300 cars a month before 2006 to about 100 sales a month now.
And yet all of those cars are a rounding error compared to the sales volumes VW expects with its 2.5 range of cars.
Rising gas prices, improved designs, and pent-up demand has fueled sales of smaller cars.
Providing new vehicles, especially more compact and fuel efficient passenger cars, has helped with sales too.
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U.S. sales of subcompact cars surged by around 50 percent last year, thanks in part to higher gas prices.
And, for how many products, from shoes to cars to diamonds, have sales migrated online?
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