DETROIT (AP) - General Motors Corp. soundly beat Toyota Motor Corp. in June
to retain its traditional U.S. sales lead, but GM sales still dropped 18.2
percent for the month. Toyota sales dipped 21.4 percent for the month. Both
companies were hurt by a sluggish economy and poor sales of trucks and sport
utility vehicles.
GM on Tuesday reported selling 262,329 vehicles for the month, compared with
Toyota's 193,234. For the first half of the year, GM sales were down 16.3
percent compared with the year-ago period. Toyota sales were down 6.8
percent for the first six months of the year.
