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Sales – Domestic and import totals are from Ward’s Motor Vehicle Facts and Figures 2002.
Domestic-sponsored imports (captive imports) were included in the import figure only. Domestic
and import sales were distributed into size classes using the percentages in Table A.21 from the
ORNL MPG and Market Shares Database, 2003.
Trucks
Table A.21
Automobile Sales Shares by Size Class, 2001
Size class Domestic Import
Two-seaters 0.8% 3.3%
Minicompact 0.0% 1.6%
Subcompact 11.3% 10.5%
Compact 34.0% 45.5%
Midsize 31.0% 35.8%
Large 22.9% 3.3%
See Glossary for definition of Automobile Size Classifications.
Stock – Total truck population from The Polk Company, 2002. The trucks were distributed using
shares of trucks by standard weight classes from VIUS 1997 (Table A.22).
Table A.22
Share of Trucks by Weight Class
Weight classes
Share of trucks in the
population
0 - 10,000 lbs 93.5%
10,001-19,500 lbs 2.0%
19,501–26,000 lbs 1.0%
26,001 lbs and over 3.5%
Total 100.0%
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