Submitted by justin on Fri, 2009-01-23 02:59
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The Christian Science Monitor wrote yesterday re: the rebound of pickup sales. It seems to me that this is no great surprise given the incredible incentives (we've seen "buy one get one free" here, as well as $10k off, etc.) and the new, reasonable price of fuel. Personally, I think those who think Detroit should "make smaller cars" are missing the point. The cars that *really* sell well are cars like the Hybrid Escape: those that may not be the largest on the block, but are healthy in size, let people haul all the stuff they bought on credit, and don't involve too much of a vehicular trade-off. As the auto makers figure out how to produce fuel efficient pickups, pickup sales will thrive at all gas prices.
