SUV Plants Closing

Car purchases are down across the board, but the SUV is in danger of becoming extinct, after a 40 percent decline in sales this year. Three of the few remaining SUV factories have closed recently, including General Motors plants in Wisconsin and Ohio on Tuesday that left about 1,000 workers unemployed at each location. A surge in gas prices this year made the big cars a hard sell, ending an era in which SUVs dominated the market.