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China outpaces the U.S. in car sales

By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer BEIJING – It looks like China may have overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest auto market. Official figures are due out this week that will show, for the first time ever, more vehicles were ... ...full story at NBC World Blog

from NBC World Blog on Mon, Feb 09 2009

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