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 Sales of North American-built cars and trucks plunged 20.5% in mid-October from a year earlier, 
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as domestic manufacturers paid the price for heavy incentives earlier this year.
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 People are waiting for {new} factory giveaways, 
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said Ben Kaye, sales manager of Bob Brest Auto World in Lynn, Mass., 
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whose sales are slow.
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 This trend appears to be especially true at General Motors Corp., 
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which used both dealer and consumer incentives 
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to ignite sales in August and September.
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 Since then, deliveries have slumped.
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 GM's car sales dropped 24.8% in mid-October to 69,980, 
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while truck sales fell 26% to 37,860.
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 GM also had dismal results in the first 10 days of the month, 
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while other auto makers reported mixed results.
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 All of the Big Three suffered in the just-ended period, however, 
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with sales of all domestically made cars, 
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including those built at Japanese-managed plants, 
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falling 19% to 158,863 from a year earlier.
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 The seasonal adjusted annual selling rate was six million vehicles, a small improvement from the 5.8 million rate of early October, but a big drop from the 7.1 million rate a year ago.
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 Sales of domestically made trucks also continued to be sluggish in mid-October, 
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dropping 22.8% to 94,543 from a year ago. 
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 The Big Three auto makers already have slashed fourth-quarter production plans 10.4% below year-ago levels, 
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but that may not be enough 
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to prevent inventories from ballooning 
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if sales don't improve.
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 Industry analyst John H. Qualls, a vice president with Hill & Knowlton in St. Louis, forecasts 
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that domestic auto makers will have a 93-day supply of cars at the end of the year, 
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even if car sales improve to a 6.5 million vehicle rate for the quarter.
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 Ford Motor Co. reported a 21.2% drop in sales of domestic-made cars to 46,995 and a 24.2% drop in domestic trucks to 31,143. 
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The sales are being dragged down by a glut of 1989 vehicles, 
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said Joel Pitcoff, a Ford analyst.
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 The earlier use of incentives depleted the market of scavengers for bargain-basement 1989 cars, 
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 Town & Country Ford in Charlotte, N.C., still needs to move about 850 1989 cars and trucks. 
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Business had been fairly strong 
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until Hurricane Hugo hit the area, 
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but has been down since.
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 Chrysler Corp. also hit the rocks in mid-October.
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 The No. 3 U.S. auto maker had a 23.7% plunge in car sales to 22,336 and a 17.5% drop in truck sales to 22,925, 
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which include its minivans and Jeeps.
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 Honda Motor Co., 
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which continues to have short supplies of domestically made Accords, 
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saw its sales of North American-built cars fall 14.1% to 8,355.
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 But sales of domestic cars and trucks at Nissan Motor Corp. rose 26.1% to 5,651.
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 A Nissan spokesman attributed the increase to the use of incentives this year and not a year ago and to higher fleet sales. 
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Toyota Motor Corp., 
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which opened a plant in Georgetown, Ky., last year, 
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saw sales triple to 6,256 vehicles.
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