Automakers Stick to ’14 Forecasts as Cold Trims U.S. Sales: Cars
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The polar vortex that blasted through much of the United States last month made selling cars as difficult as moving the snow mounds that rose up around David Martin’s dealership near New Hampshire’s Mt. Washington.
“We literally have vehicles frozen to the ground,” said Martin, general sales manager of Berlin City Auto Group in Gorham, which sells Ford, Dodge, Chrysler, Honda and Toyota models. “We needed five guys to cut a Corolla out of the ice so that a customer could buy it.”