The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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Also from the same article:

S.U.V.’s accounted for 18 percent of [US] new-car sales in 2002, but only 7 percent in 2010.

SUV’s comprise a much higher proportion of vehicles in my neck of the woods (Wellesley, MA) than what would be implied by the above figures. The difference is so great that I find the above figures a little hard to believe.