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Chrysler U.S. August sales slide 34 percent

DETROIT
Wed Sep 3, 2008 3:43pm EDT

DETROIT (Reuters) - Chrysler LLC said on Wednesday that U.S. auto sales fell 34 percent in August.

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The automaker's U.S. sales fell to 110,235 vehicles in August, from 168,203 vehicles a year earlier.

The company said it had 380,560 units of inventory, or a 93-day supply at the end of August, down 15 percent compared with August 2007.

(Reporting by Poornima Gupta; editing by Carol Bishopric)



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