NEW YORK: US automobile sales in 2019 dipped slightly from the prior year, but still demonstrated an underlying resilience as large vehicles strengthened their stranglehold over the market.

Sales for 2019 came in at about 17 million, according to leading analysts on Monday (Tuesday in Manila). Below the all-time peaks of a few years ago, but good enough to show the boost from a tight labor market that offset recession and trade war worries that shadowed the economy much of the year.