The General Motors Corporation posted an 11.4 percent decline in car sales, to 63,723, but a 24.7 percent increase in light trucks, to 39,704.

The General Motors Corporation, the industry leader, posted total car and light-truck sales of 4,713,254, up 5.9 percent for the year.

The General Motors Corporation posted a scant increase of eight-tenths of a percent in car sales, to 91,934, from 91,235 a year earlier.

The General Motors Corporation posted robust first-quarter earnings of $1.55 billion today, a 42 percent increase from a year earlier.

The General Motors Corporation, the industry leader, posted a 1.2 percent rise in domestic vehicle sales in late December.

The General Motors Corporation posted the smallest decline of the large domestic auto makers.

The General Motors Corporation, however, posted a 4.1 percent increase in sales of its cars, which rose to 113,801 units.

But the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, the financial services unit, posted a 28.6 percent decline in earnings.

The General Motors Corporation posted a 24.8 percent decline, selling 69,980 cars, compared with 93,086 cars a year ago.

But the troubled General Motors Corporation posted an 11.7 percent drop in car sales from last year.