total amount of cars and trucks sold in 2003

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Request for Question Clarification by juggler-ga on 27 Sep 2004 21:53 PDT

New cars? Or new and used?   

In the US or worldwide?

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Clarification of Question by titan06-ga on 27 Sep 2004 23:03 PDT

New automotive car and truck sales. If you can specify mini vans,
suvs, minivans, sports cars that would be great.

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Request for Question Clarification by juggler-ga on 27 Sep 2004 23:11 PDT

Do you want sales for just the United States of America or for the whole world?

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Clarification of Question by titan06-ga on 27 Sep 2004 23:16 PDT

New automotive car and truck sales. If you can specify mini vans,
suvs, minivans, sports cars that would be great. in the United States of America.

Hello.

In the United States, 16.7 million cars and trucks were sold in 2003.

Of that figure:
 
4.5 million are SUVs
1.5 million are minivans


2004 National Automobile Dealers Association report
http://www.nada.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Newsroom/NADAData/20043/NADA_Data_2004.pdf

"Passenger vehicle sales for 2003 were 16.7 million units..."
source: Motorage.com
http://www.motorage.com/motorage/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=89137

"In 2003, including an estimate for overseas output aimed at North
America, there was straight-time capacity for 1.496 million minivans.
Sales of only 1.267 million, or 84.7% of capacity, represent a drastic
drop..."
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3165/is_2_40/ai_113644191

" Last year, 9 million SUVs and light trucks were sold in the United
States, a record 54 percent of all vehicle sales."
source: Scripps Howard News Service
http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=SUVGASPRICES-06-21-04

"Automakers sold 4.5 million SUVs in 2003."
source: Washington Times
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040813-030501-9358r.htm

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search strategy:
"million suvs"
"million minivans" 2003
 etc

I hope this helps.