Ford November sales decline least

According to this image -- http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/12/03/business/1203-pg1-webAUTO.jpg
-- in this story in today's NY Times --
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/business/03auto.html?_r=1&ref=us --
Ford had the least bad November 2008 of all the majors. Here's a text
version:

-30.5 – Ford – 122,723 units sold
-31.6 – Honda – 76,233
-33.9 – Toyota – 130,307
-41.3 – GM – 153,404
-42.4 – Nissan – 46,605
-47.1 – Chrysler – 85,260

Just keep these inconvenient truths in mind as all those newly-minted
automotive experts on Capitol Hill lay into the Big 3 execs tomorrow.
Evidently the geniuses at Toyota, Honda, and Nissan were unable to
prevent greater erosion to their market share than the sleepy greedy
morons at Ford. Also, notice that the sleepy greedy morons at GM were
somehow able to move 23,000 more vehicles than the Toyota geniuses.
Finally, notice that the ownership group which comes closest to the
members of Congress in its expertise at running an automaker -- that
would be the money boys at Cerberus Capital -- posted the worst
decline of all, losing nearly one-half of Chrysler's volume year-to-
year.

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