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Mar 4, 2015

TRUCK SALES * USA: Pickup trucks increasing 11.8 percent

* Michigan - Winter weather chills U.S. auto sales
-- Pickups and utility vehicles provided an uptick for U.S.A. auto dealers in February, even as many makers reported lower-than-expected results due to frigid temperatures and lackluster sales of cars... Automakers sold 1.26 million cars and trucks last month. That was up 5.3 percent from a year ago, but down about 30,000 vehicles from what industry analysts expected... Many consumers who did brave the winter weather drove off with a new pickup or sport utility vehicle... Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, General Motors Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and others highlighted increases in pickup and utility vehicle as their main drivers for sales last month, as the sectors continued to outperform the industry by increasing 11.8 percent in February... Car sales fell 1.4 percent... (Photo by Nati Harnik / AP - Mark LaNeve, Ford vice president of U.S. marketing, sales and service, said that F-150 inventories remain tight due to its Kansas City Assembly plant — the second plant building the new F-150 — not producing the new full-size pickup until later this month) - Detroit,MICH,USA -The Detroit News, by Michael Wayland -March 3, 2015


* Michigan - GM's February sales up 4.2% as trucks soar, cars dive 

Detroit,MICH,USA -Automotive News -March 3, 2015 -- Booming demand for General Motors' pickups and SUVs in February helped ease the sting of a 21 percent drop in car sales... Overall, GM sold 231,378 light vehicles last month, up 4.2 percent from a year earlier. Sales to individual buyers rose 1 percent while deliveries to fleet customers increased by 12 percent, GM said today... Combined sales of pickups, SUVs and vans rose 36 percent... Sales of 9,076 Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon midsize pickups, which hit showrooms in the fall, aided GM's trucks total. That was higher than GM's January total of 8,147...

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