Detroit Auto Show may be celebrating an era about to end, focuses on sales

Automakers have reason to celebrate as they gather this week at the Detroit auto show to unveil the new range of brawny trucks, high-tech cars and rugged sport-utility vehicles that will arrive in showrooms in the months ahead.

They just ended 2017 with sales in the US topping 1auto industry,7 million vehicles for the third year in a row, the best three-year stretch the industry has ever experienced.

Spurred by low gasoline prices, Americans are snapping up trucks and sport-utility vehicles, which generate fat profits for manufacturers. The American economy remains strong, with unemployment low and interest rates modest. “It’s going to