Americans buy bigger cars in May, Forget about $4 gasoline

U.S. sales of smaller, more fuel-efficient cars had a slower rate of growth in May, according to data compiled for Reuters. The figures indicate that the purchase of vehicles with higher gas mileage is certainly not as frenzied as three years ago. The rush to buy these cars
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800over - 6/6/2011 5:52:11 PM

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#1 selling truck is a 6 cylinder F150....sounds like people are changing their ways to me...

veyron1001 - 6/6/2011 6:26:23 PM

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Nope. Still the majority are idiots who buy trucks because they look good and not for duty use. Its a fact and you can not argue against it.

t_bone - 6/7/2011 8:52:34 AM

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Trucks aren't even that great at what they are supposed to do. People can steal stuff straight out of the back, load is exposed to the rain, needs to get tied down or it comes off in the highway, etc.

mini22 - 6/7/2011 6:38:29 PM

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With trucks they need to figure out a way to keep people from stealing catalityc converters. That appears to be the newest rage.The best way to keep people from buying bigger vehicles to me would be a gas tax of say $1.00. Apparently GM's Dan Ankerson agrees with me.He prefers this over raising the fuel economy standards further. Obviously he figures the cost to GM is less and therefore would not have to be passed on to the consumer.I'll bet the ecoboost F150 is more expensive to make and costs more to buy then the V8. Personally I thing trucks should be made slightly smaller in both length and width.I also think they should way about 500 LBS less.

85bmw745i - 6/7/2011 11:40:34 PM

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Exactly why they should impose a gas guzzler tax if the truck is not used for a business.