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Last month, GM sold 262,329 vehicles in the US alone. Toyota, in second place, sold 193,234. Ford and Chrysler took the third and fourth spots, with Honda in fifth. You can't claim that "hardly anybody" is buying Detroit's products.

And that's just in the US. You wanna know what the top-selling car in Europe is? It's the Opel/Vauxhall Astra -- a GM product -- with nearly half a million sold last year. The Ford Focus comes in third, after the Renault Clio. In Australia the top-selling cars are almost always GM's Holden Commodore and Ford's Falcon.

If you think nobody's buying American cars, that might just be a function of where you live (Northern California?)

>>hugh+(OP)
I said "hardly anyone wants Detroit's cars". Remove trucks (yes, that includes SUVs) and fleet vehicles from your figures.

>>edw519+e
I don't have the broken-down figures, but I'm sure GM would still be one of the top two or three car manufacturers on the planet if you broke it down that way.

Doesn't "top selling car in Europe" mean anything to you?

>>hugh+D
The European cars (like the Opel I have) are built by highly unionized European employees, though, right? The models Ford builds in Europe are pretty good too.