DETROIT - High gas prices and a summer of heavy discounting sentsales of sport utility vehicles plummeting last month for U.S.automakers. Asian manufacturers, who had avoided the employee-pricing lures Detroit offered, saw their results less affected.
Several automakers reported strong car sales in their monthlyreports released Monday, but SUVs took a hit industrywide in the U.S.market as gas prices skyrocketed following Hurricane Katrina.
Sales of the GMC Envoy and Chevrolet Tahoe fell more than 50percent compared to last September. The Cadillac Escalade, MazdaTribute, Ford Explorer, Ford Expedition, Toyota Sequoia and NissanArmada all saw their sales fall by 18 …
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