Pent-Up Demand AWOL: Less Than 13 Million Sales Expected For This Year

U.S. auto sales will probably come in lower than 13 million this year, Ford’s CFO Lewis Booth told Bloomberg. That’s below the low end of Ford’s estimate.

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