Japanese Car Sales Rise As Gas Spikes

How do they do it?

Once again, Japanese automakers seem ahead of the curve as sales of their smaller, more efficient cars advance as orders for SUV's decline.

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The first time this happened was in the 1970's. Three decades ago, the lesson of Japanese dominance over increasing areas of the automobile market still hasn't sunk in.

And now, the Big Three in America has been reduced to what amounts to the Struggling Two, with GM and Ford fighting for market share crowded by foreign automakers. Chrysler, the absent third, is owned by a German carmaker.

And so it goes.