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Article: Looking good ; Number of new vehicles titled in county up 1.4% in '07
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- July 14, 2007
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The number of new vehicles titled in El Paso County through June
was up by 163 over the first half of last year. That's 1.4 percent -
- not a lot, but a promising sign for local dealers, who last year
posted the lowest number of vehicles titled here in eight years.
The slight increase is a positive indicator for the remainder of
the year, said Mike Cimino, a manager with Phil Long Dealerships, a
locally based auto group.
Auto sales are usually more robust in the second half of the
year, Cimino said: "We're in the middle of the year's heaviest
selling season. Our dealerships had the biggest June ever."
A total of 11,754 new vehicles were titled through June, compared
with 11,591 through ...