Pickups are driven from No. 1 sales slot

Web Posted: 06/04/2008 12:17 AM CDT

By Sean M. Wood
Express-News
The pickup's ride as the dominant vehicle on the American roads has come to an end.

For the first time in 151/2 years, a pickup is not the best-selling vehicle in the monthly industry sales report. Not one, but four cars � Toyota's Corolla and Camry and Honda's Accord and Civic � outsold the stalwart Ford-150 in the May sales report.

The last time that happened was December 1992, when the Ford Taurus topped the F-series.

�It's a sign of the times,� said George Pipas, U.S. sales analysis manager for Ford. �I was convinced and several others of us were convinced that this would be a watershed month.�


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Has anyone been checking the pushbike sales recently? We will all be riding them!

JAS

What is a pushbike?

The Lizard Man is innocent!

JohnR, I can't resist the urge to continue on as your itinerate-research-gopher-in-part: readers, look no further.

Good job, Cory.

The Lizard Man is innocent!

"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."

- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

I personally prefer Cousin Avi (played by Dennis Farina) in Snatch:

"Speak English, you spawned the @#?!ing language."

I never called a bicycle a pushbike until I heard the word used repeatedly in the US!! I thought it was simply your way of distinguishing a bicycle from a motorbike. But what do I know, I'm just English! I am completely accustomed to everyone in this fine country telling me to speak the language we share, not something else.

And, Shannon, that Shaw quote is one of my favorites.

JAS

All I can say is the Harley I bought during my mid-life crisis/renegade biker phase is starting to look better and better.

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But what do I know, I'm just English!

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Aside from your dizzying legal acumen, you also know that "herb" has an "h" in it.

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Originally posted by David Newell:
Aside from your dizzying legal acumen, you also know that "herb" has an "h" in it.

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Which is pretty much the ONLY time the Brits pronounce letters we don't. (Well, that and "aluminium".) Let's not bring up such British wonders as Leicester and Gloucester...

You and your grammar.

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Originally posted by David Newell:
You and your grammar.

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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

INCONCIEVABLE!

I before E, except AFTER C.
Exit only, forthwith

And never get in a land war in Southeast Asia.

but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...

biscuits or cookies? When I lived in the UK I got the oddest looks when I asked for biscuits and gravy for breakfast. (Once someone brought me cookies and brown gravy). And you can forget ordering grits!

Do they have magic grits?

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Originally posted by Gretchen:
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...

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You memorized the ha's.