LOS ANGELES - Quick, name the mass-market vehicle brand with the largest decline in U.S. sales this year. It has to be one of the Detroit 3 brands, right? Wrong. The worst performer on a percentage basis was Suzuki, down 60.2 percent in the first half of 2009. In June, sales plummeted 78.0 percent compared with the same month last year. Why would an Asian brand that builds small, fuel-efficient vehicles -the recipe for Detroit's rebirth as envisioned in Washington - be at the bottom of the heap?
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