Finally the vehicle price less customer incentives and rebates (cash and incentives) are used as the variables to complete the partial correlation.

Table 2 Partial Correlation Descriptive Statistics

Mean

Std. Deviation

TOTAL MIDSIZE SUV UNIT SALES

Total Down

Percent Financed

Total Down (%)

Trade in (%)

Type of Sale Cash (%)

Type of Sale Finance (%)

Type of Sale Purchase (%)

Type of Sale Lease (%)

Vehicle Price Less Customer Cash Rebate

Average U.S. Gas Price

Table 2, Partial Correlation Descriptive Statistics shows the results of the initial analysis. With the number of periods being 14, and controlling for gas price this analysis shows that the majority of mid-size SUV vehicles buyers were financing, taking advantage of aggressive incentives on the part of manufacturers. See Figure 1 for an analysis of cash and incentive spending by SUV model.

Notice that the median level of spending is approximately $3,000 per unit...
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