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GM's global sales hit new record

General Motors said it sold 2.26 million cars and trucks – a record – across the globe during the first quarter of 2007, according to preliminary figures released by the company today, according to the Detroit Free Press.
The world’s largest automaker said worldwide sales for the first three months of the year were up by 67,000 vehicles, or about 3%, compared with the 2.19 million cars, trucks and sport-utility vehicles sold during the same period in 2006

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Diesel seen making comeback in US car market

Diesel is about to make a major comeback. Nissan plans to sell a diesel-power version of its Maxima sedan in the USA in 2010, joining a small but rapidly growing parade of diesel sellers, according to USA Today.
And Volkswagen says that, for the first time, it is developing diesels specifically for the U.S. market and will sell them in the USA first, instead of starting in Europe.
Together, those signal a new willingness by automakers to offer fuel-saving diesels in what has been considered an anti-diesel market.

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