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For your Memorial Day holiday reading, NBC anchor Brian Williams publicized Where Have All the Leaders Gone? by Lee Iacocca. "Styling sells cars. Quality keeps them sold," declared the 82-year-old former Chrysler boss. He told Williams that the "market is clearly going green and that means hybrid cars." On CBS, Byron Pitts compared April 2007 with April 2004 and found Iacoccaesque changes in automobile purchasing. He quoted both percentage and raw numbers for sales of Sports Utility Vehicles, compact cars and hybrids. The former--down 17%, up 12%, up 300%--sounded much more dramatic than the latter. In raw numbers, three years ago, monthly sales for SUVs were 71K, for compacts 209K, for hybrids 7K; now those numbers are 59K, 235K and 27K. Even today the SUV outsells the hybrid two-to-one.
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