Last year the company had total domestic sales of $2.4 billion.

By 1964, domestic and foreign sales had reached three million cases.

The company said domestic sales rose 15.7 percent, to $1.61 billion.

For the entire month, domestic sales were at an annual rate of 7.3 million.

In any case, he said, his investment decisions were not based on the company's domestic sales.

Domestic sales of 26,000 vehicles were less than half the 1988 level.

Domestic sales, however, were revised down and are now expected to fall 1.4 percent in the current half year.

Domestic sales added up to almost $26 billion in 2000, nearly half the worldwide total.

Domestic sales in the first nine months of 1987 came to 319,000 vehicles, up 40 percent over the 1986 period, the agency said.

The average first quarter monthly increase of domestic sales was 7.1 percent, it said.