11.  A garage will, of course, afford more protection against thieves, who seem to favor large cars as well as popular models.

12.  A strong economy appears to have produced very strong auto sales this month, and GM dealerships had scant supplies of popular models when the strikes began.

13.  A shortage of popular models is one reason.

14.  A shortage of the popular models would hurt, he said.

15.  But any such move would likely send only a trickle of vehicles to dealers starved of popular models.

16.  But dealers have strongly resisted any attempts to do away with the popular model.

17.  But the JAL Newsletter wonders whether the most popular model should be called the penny loafer or the yen loafer.

18.  Car factories in Japan are feeding the biggest surge in exports in more than a decade as a combination of a weak yen and popular models boosts demand abroad.

19.  David Healy, a Burnham Securities analyst, said tight supplies are crimping sales of popular Japanese models.