Table 1.—Selected Motor Vehicle Indicators

	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	Seasonally adjusted at annual rates
									1998	1999
									IV	I	II	III	IV
	Thousands of units
New motor vehicle sales	13,118	14,199	15,413	15,118	15,456	15,498	15,963	17,414	16,549	16,877	17,365	17,816	17,570
New-car sales	8,214	8,518	8,990	8,636	8,527	8,273	8,142	8,697	8,293	8,401	8,773	8,813	8,793
Domestic	6,277	6,734	7,255	7,129	7,254	6,906	6,764	6,982	6,885	6,889	7,078	7,102	6,835
Import	1,938	1,784	1,735	1,507	1,273	1,366	1,378	1,715	1,408	1,512	1,695	1,711	1,957
New-truck sales	4,903	5,681	6,422	6,481	6,929	7,226	7,821	8,717	8,256	8,476	8,592	9,003	8,777
Light	4,629	5,346	6,034	6,053	6,519	6,797	7,297	8,072	7,663	7,847	7,970	8,348	8,099
Domestic	4,233	4,981	5,638	5,663	6,088	6,226	6,651	7,310	6,941	7,100	7,246	7,608	7,254
Import	396	365	396	391	431	571	646	763	721	747	724	740	846
Other	275	336	388	428	411	429	524	645	593	629	622	655	678
Domestic-car production	5,666	5,979	6,614	6,350	6,080	5,927	5,547	5,641	5,813	5,599	5,451	5,854	5,658
Domestic-car inventories/1/	....	....	....	....	....	....	....	....	1,288	1,303	1,214	1,251	1,291
Domestic-car inventory-sales ratio/2/	....	....	....	....	....	....	....	....	2.25	2.27	2.06	2.11	2.27
	Dollars
Average expenditure per new car/3/	16,336	16,871	17,903	17,959	18,777	19,551	20,849	21,022	21,257	20,720	20,898	21,049	21,420
Domestic	15,644	15,976	16,930	16,864	17,468	17,838	18,579	18,725	18,885	18,609	18,648	18,855	18,787
Import	18,593	20,261	21,989	23,202	26,205	28,193	31,986	30,350	32,849	30,339	30,291	30,154	30,617

1. End of quarter, not at annual rate.

2. Ratio of end-of-quarter inventories to average monthly sales for the quarter.

3. BEA estimate, using average base price and adjustments for options, transportation charges, taxes, discounts, and rebates for each model, weighted by that model's share of sales; not at annual rate.

Source: American Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc., and Ward's Automotive Reports; data are seasonally adjusted by BEA.