Reply #26: GM Auto Sales Fall in 2006

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DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors Corp. on Wednesday said it sold 9.09 million cars and trucks worldwide in 2006, a nearly 1 percent decline from 2005, as sales in the U.S. faltered.

The world's largest automaker sold 9.17 million vehicles in 2005.

Its biggest rival, Toyota Motor Corp. of Japan, has said that it expects final totals to show it sold 9.04 million vehicles in 2006.

"Being the largest car company in the world can't be a focus, it has to be a byproduct of giving people in each market the vehicles they really want. GM enjoys that position today," John Middlebrook, GM's vice president for global sales, said in a news release.

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