American Sales:

The Martha Patterson started selling real estate in the 1990s and replaced her car every five or six years until the housing market collapsed in she kept her Volkswagen Passat GLS for a decade, until last June in just kept holding onto my car," said Patterson of the Wilmington, Delaware, recalling how her annual commissioned sales plunged to $1 million from $5 million.

I wanted a new one it is a really hard to get a decent deal when you're not making steady income to a millions of consumers like Patterson in traded her 2001 model for a new Chevrolet Malibu, deferred purchases to replace older vehicles in the average age of U.S. cars and trucks rising to a record 10.8 years, according to R.L. Polk & Co., analysts see pent-up demand boosting sales in January and driving demand to a 3rd straight annual gain, the longest streak since U.S. sales peaked in 2000.

A Light-vehicle sales in January, set for release tomorrow, may have run at a 13.4 million seasonally adjusted annual rate in the average estimate of 14 of a analysts surveyed by Bloomberg in pace probably accelerated from 12.7 million a year earlier in automakers spending on incentives stayed steady or slid from a year earlier according to analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co., RBC Capital Markets LLC and Barclays Capital.