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GM U.S. May sales plunge 30 percent

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Tue Jun 3, 2008 3:31pm EDT

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp on Tuesday reported a 30.2 percent fall in May U.S. auto sales on an adjusted basis, led by a 39 percent decline in truck sales.

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GM's overall sales fell to 272,363 vehicles in May from 375,682 in the same month a year earlier.

(Reporting by Poornima Gupta; editing by John Wallace)
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