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You can't decipher economics on one set of statistics alone; you correlate to another financial trend.
The slow down could have been anything from people owing taxes (who were going to use that money for a downpayment) to the sequester issue (lots of military members here) or people buying houses instead (putting off car purchase and taking advantage of low rates before values rise too much).
Personally I just think most of the people who could get them and wanted them have gotten them and other people who appreciate the car but were concerned about a first year car are waiting and then there are those who loved the car but couldn't get approved or weren't ready to buy who will try to snap up a leftover. Winter and winter hanging on (it was snowing this morning in CT!), definitely played a role too.
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