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Auto sales plunge as credit crunch hits (Reuters)

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081002/bs_nm/us_usa_autosales"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20081002/2008_10_01t121420_450x311_us_usa_autosales.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=Tk9VvnYRN5Rv7Hl98VmzMA--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A long line of Ford trucks for sale are seen at a Ford dealership in Broomfield, Colorado July 23, 2008. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Major automakers reported plunging U.S. sales for September -- led by a 34 percent slide at Ford Motor Co -- as an escalating credit crisis hit the slumping industry and raised new doubts about when the world's largest auto market would stabilize.</p><br clear="all"/>