With seven car assembly plants down thisweek, including six at General Motors Corp &lt;GM>, U.S. carmakers
are expected to built an estimated 160,111 cars for the week
ending April 11, down from 177,687 a year ago, said the trade
publication Ward's Automotive Reports.
    Year to date, it estimated domestic car output at
2,334,528, down from 2,442,221 in the same 1986 period.
    It projected the weeks truck output at 80,168, up from
72,026 a year earlier. Cumulative truck sales were pegged at
1,096,732, up from 1,011,029 a year ago.
   
 Reuter
