“Detroit’s automakers showed December U.S. sales gains of 5 percent, slightly better than analysts’ expectations,” says Reuters, “but likely not enough to stave off market-share gains by Japanese rivals.”
And here December and full year 2012 sales results in an easy to read table, data courtesy of Automotive News [sub ].

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