{"id":1988,"date":"2005-12-02T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T00:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2005-12-02T00:01:19","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T00:01:19","slug":"suv_sales_down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1988","title":{"rendered":"SUV Sales Down Sharply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a surprise&#8230;  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/12\/01\/AR2005120100737.html?nav=rss_business\">Sholnn Freeman<\/a> on the sharp decline in SUV sales:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The sales spiral of the Ford Explorer demonstrates consumers&#8217; shifting tastes. It was once one of the nation&#8217;s most popular vehicles, but Ford sold fewer than 12,000 last month, a 52 percent drop from November 2004.<br \/>\nAt the height of the SUV boom in 2002, Ford routinely sold 25,000 to 40,000 Explorers a month.<br \/>\nFord is looking to offset the weakness in trucks with more sales of passenger cars, including the Ford Fusion and Lincoln Zephyr.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a surprise&#8230; Sholnn Freeman on the sharp decline in SUV sales: The sales spiral of the Ford Explorer demonstrates consumers&#8217; shifting tastes. It was once one of the nation&#8217;s most popular vehicles, but Ford sold fewer than 12,000 last month, a 52 percent drop from November 2004. At the height of the SUV boom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}