Automakers may again report a U.S. sales decline of at least 25 percent for November as tight credit and concerns about the Detroit 3's survival kept demand at the lowest levels in a quarter century.
The drop will be the industry's 17th in the past 18 months.
The reports are due tomorrow, when cash-strapped General Motors, Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC also must submit their turnaround plans to Congress to be considered for $25 billion in government loans.
"The domestics are effectively already out of business, particularly GM," said John Casesa, an analyst at Casesa Shapiro Group LLC in New York. "The combination of the economy and all the news on their problems just stopped them dead."
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