American automakers said on Wednesday that sales of pickup trucks rose sharply in April because of a revival in the housing market and increased demand from the oil and gas industry.
The boom in truck sales fed double-digit sales growth at all three Detroit automakers and kept the industry on track to sell more than 15 million vehicles this year.
Over all, the industry sold 1.28 million new vehicles during April, an 8.5 percent improvement over the same month a year ago, according to the research firm Autodata.
It was the best April performance since 2007, and another indication that sales of new cars and trucks in the United States are returning to prerecession levels.
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The New York Times