Auto Stats: 1 in 20 Americans Purchased A New Car In 2012

Call it the Sandy effect. If you had a low month like that, the bounces will look really good. But absolute numbers do not lie - the industry is on track to reach an annual run rate of 15 million vehicles (Source)

How do we digest the scale of this number? Let us try this - one in twenty americans would have purchased a new car in 2012. wow.