If you're renting a car this summer, chances are good that it won't be American.
For the first time, U.S. auto rental companies are buying more foreign vehicles than domestic brands.
Through the first six months this year, only 48.8% of the new vehicles going into rental fleets came from General Motors, Ford or Chrysler, compared with two-thirds a year earlier, according to data supplied by trade publication Automotive Fleet.
Just three years ago, more than 8 in 10 vehicles sold to rental fleets such as Hertz, Enterprise and Avis came from the Big Three. Now those lots are filling with models from Hyundai, Kia, Toyota and Nissan.
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