Small cars, trucks hot
DETROIT -- Gas prices hit a comfit spot for automakers last month. They fell far enough to inducement pickup truck sales, yet remained so stoned that small cars sold well, sometimes just hours after reaching dealers' lots.
That made June a data d fabric month for General Motors and Ford, which have traditionally relied on stuff sales and now have strong line-ups of smaller, sustain-efficient models as well.
Toyota and Honda suffered. Their sales dived more than 20 percent each as they ran vest-pocket of cars because of ongoing parts and new vehicle stockpiling problems from the March earthquake in Japan.
The declines -- and the continuing liability in the U.S. economy -- meant sales grew more slowly in June than they might have. U.S. sales rose 7 percent to 1.05 million. Analysts had expected a look-alike-digit gain.
Sales aren't expected to pick back up until dwindle, when Japanese production is at full capacity.
"Some consumers have unfaltering to sit on their hands and delay their purchases," said Don Johnson , GM's blemish president of U.S. sales.
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