Ventrilio said since the 9000 CDs were available in decent quantities starting in January, the cars outsold their sibling, the 9000 hatchback models for each of the first three months of 1989.
In contrast, Ford Motor Co. managed to boost its domestic sales 5% in the 1987 model year, and for the first time in 31 years, the Ford division of Ford Motor outsold its arch-rival, the Chevrolet division of GM.
And while the three biggest software companies sell word-processor programs, WordPerfect has outsold them all, with a grip on an estimated 30% of the International Business Machines Corp.-compatible word-processing market.
Sales of new LPs fell to 11.7 million disks last year, as the polycarbonate-and-aluminum CDs outsold vinyl 24-to-one.
In its first three months on the market, Explorer outsold the vehicle it replaced, the two-door Bronco II, by nearly 78%.
Over several months, the multi-image cover consistently outsold the other.
Signals, a catalog of gifts tied to Public Broadcast System programs, says tapes outsold other goods (mugs, T-shirts and gizmos), so it spun off a video-only catalog. But public TV isn't alone in tuning in to home VCRs.
It already has Nolvadex and Zoladex in the area, but both are outsold by heart treatments Zestril and Tenormin.
Even so, it still outsold second-placed Leyland DAF vans by more than three to one. Imports in that sector fell to 40.8 per cent from 44.02 in 1990.
The re-imports outsold the domestic models by 10 to 1.
But across the Atlantic, VW and Audi cars together garnered just 2.2% of U.S. sales, far below the peak of 7% in 1970, when the company outsold all other importers combined.