Long Time Comin’

It’s been a long time comin’
It’s goin’ to be a long time gone
But you know
The darkest hour
Is always, always
Just before the dawn. — David Crosby, “Long Time Gone”

So I’ve been looking at the multitudinous numbers generated by the folks at Autodata Corp. (marketintelligence.com) regarding the U.S. market light vehicle sales for 2009.

And do you know what? Compared to what it could have been. Compared to what it had threatened to be. Compared to what has happened in other industries. . .It ain’t all that bad.
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