Forecast calls for slight decline in 2017 sales to 17.1 million vehicles.
The strong economic growth that propelled new-vehicle sales to back-to-back record years in 2015 and 2016 is on pace to continue into 2017, said Steven Szakaly, chief economist of the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) at a press briefing during the NADA Convention and Expo in New Orleans.
Szakaly sees sustained sales resulting from a number of factors, including positive GDP growth, an excellent
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