Cars again accounted for two-thirds of the total vehicle market, or about 10.5 million units.

Daimler had been interested in the commercial vehicle market from 1904.

And car buyers appear to be turning to the used vehicle market.

Over the next few years the hybrid electric vehicle market is expected to expand.

Mercury's share of the vehicle market fell from 3 percent in 1991 to 2.1 percent last year.

Its share of the American vehicle market has dropped to 35 percent from 45 percent in 1980.

Moreover, they think the entire vehicle market will recover strongly.

The stock did well to begin with, because people were looking at the vehicle market in China.

It took 31.5 percent of the vehicle market, versus 29.9 percent last year.

China's vehicle market is now the second largest in the world, after the United States, and still expanding.