Voting with your ... wheels.

Since I've seen people ask, I figured I would post a  roundup of the numbers for the US auto market.  Numbers included from articles in the Detroit Free Press and  Bloomberg below the fold.

Short summary:  Car sales are up, Truck sales are down, and the Big Three and Europe are getting dropped for Asian manufacturers.  Hybrids total 0.4% for the year.

DFP comparison for the month of April and year-to-date 2005 vs 2004.

Month
Car: 719,805 vs. 649,588, up 7 percent
Truck: 783,693 vs. 773,366, down 2 percent
Big Three vehicle: 847,185 vs. 849,740, down 4 percent
Asian vehicle: 563,492 vs. 471,102, up 15 percent
European vehicle: 92,821 vs. 102,112, down 12 percent
Total vehicle: 1,503,498 vs. 1,422,954, up 2 percent

Year-to-date
Car: 2,511,376 vs. 2,436,310, up 3 percent
Truck: 2,884,316 vs. 2,897,027, down less than 1 percent
Big Three vehicle: 3,097,525 vs. 3,163,167, down 2 percent
Asian vehicle: 1,972,455 vs. 1,822,965, up 8 percent
European vehicle: 325,712 vs. 347,205, down 6 percent
Total vehicle: 5,395,692 vs. 5,333,337, up 1 percent

Bloomberg's comments on the breakdown include some numbers for hybrids.

Toyota sold 210,466 vehicles last month, up 26 percent from a year ago. The gains were led by higher sales of hybrid Prius cars, which almost tripled to a record 11,345.

U.S. sales of hybrid-electric vehicles reached 20,974 in April, the highest since Toyota and Honda Motor Co. began selling the fuel-saving models five years ago. Toyota also sold 2,345 new Lexus RX 400h hybrid SUVs, and Honda sold a record 5,579 Civic, Accord and Insight hybrids. Ford reported 1,705 gas-electric Escapes.