57% of General Motors’ sales units are trucks.
If Toyota stopped making vehicles on June 1st, their dealers would be out of stock by Independence Day. If GM stopped making vehicles on June 1st, their dealers could have kept selling stock until Labor Day. (The point being that GM has a million units in dealer stock on average; Toyota 200,000.)
(NewMexiKen was born in Detroit. I can’t help it, I find the automobile industry strangely fascinating.)
Facts gleaned from The Truth About Cars.