DETROIT (WKZO) -- General Motors is reporting its January U.S. sales dropped six percent compared with January 2011.
Retail deliveries, accounting for 70-percent of GM sales, fell 15-percent from last January. Additionally, GM crossover sales decreased 18-percent, while sales of trucks, vans and SUVs were down by six percent.
On the plus side, Chevrolet passenger car sales increased by 13-percent. GM's total passenger car sales increased by three percent, led by a 30-percent climb in sales of small and compact cars.