Tom Hals is a financial editor based in New York. He joined Reuters in London in 2001 and has worked as a financial journalist in Tokyo, New Orleans and Philadelphia. In the following story, slugged USA-SUV and headlined, 'WITNESS-My SUV-selling hell', he tells of becoming an accidential owner of a sport utility vehicle and the troubles of selling a gas-guzzler as energy prices soar.

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