{"id":205,"date":"2007-06-02T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/americans_turn_away_from_suvs\/"},"modified":"2007-06-02T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T14:02:00","slug":"americans_turn_away_from_suvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Americans turn away from SUVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are turning away from gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles, luxury cars and pick-up trucks in favour of smaller, more fuel-efficient models, judging by May sales figures.<\/p>\n<p>The trend has given a boost to Toyota, which reported record sales last month, up 14 per cent from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>General Motors\u2019 light vehicle sales rose by almost 10 per cent. But Ford Motor reported a 7 per cent decline, due mainly to a sharp cutback in low-margin sales to car-rental companies. Ford\u2019s retail sales were 3 per cent lower, with demand weakening in the final week of the month.<\/p>\n<p><i>My response is&#8211;thanks be to God! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/1bbdfe8e-1083-11dc-96d3-000b5df10621.html\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription required).<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are turning away from gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles, luxury cars and pick-up trucks in favour of smaller, more fuel-efficient models, judging by May sales figures. The trend has given a boost to Toyota, which reported record sales last month, up<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=205\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}