
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, October 10, 1995                   TAG: 9510100068
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-6   EDITION: METRO 
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ROANOKE REGIONAL ECONOMIC INDICATORS

New-car registrations in the Roanoke Valley rose in September from a year earlier, but overall sales for the year are lagging. The Virginia Automobile Dealers Association reported sales of 670 new cars registered in the metro area last month, up 4.8 percent from 639 in September 1994 but down 20.8 percent from 846 in August.

In the first nine months of this year, 6,363 new cars were registered, down 11.7 percent from 7,210 in the year-ago period.

by CNB