Last week automakers reported new cars sales in March were up 17 percent from a year ago.

上周汽车制造商报告称3月份新车销售额比去年同期增长17%。

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SUV sales rose more than 30% in the country last year while passenger cars sales climbed only around 10%, says China's Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

中国汽车工业协会的数据显示，去年全国的SUV销量增长近30%，而轿车销量只增长了约10%。

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Retail sales dipped six-tenths of a percent last month, largely because Americans were buying fewer cars.

零售额上个月下降了0.6%，主要是由于美国人汽车买得更少了。

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It has sold off its less profitable kinds of cars, closed factories,cut jobs and closed sales centers.

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Today, there are jumbo drinks, jumbo boxes of soap, and jumbo sales of cars.

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which it also plans to export. Ford has said small cars represent the future for automakers, and expects sales of these cars to double over the next decade.

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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.

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Cars sales are doing well.

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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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