In this study, I examined the relative expenditures on motor vehicles in the United States from March through June 2020—the first four months of the current pandemic. The raw data for the calculations—seasonally adjusted dollar amounts of sales for each month—came from the U.S. Bureau of the Census . Three analyses were performed. To provide a general context, I first looked at monthly changes in the total retail and food services sales excluding those at motor vehicle dealers, relative to the sales of the same type in February 2020. That was followed by analogous comparisons for the sales at motor vehicle dealers. (Because the population increased by only 0.2% from February to June, no population adjustments were made in these two analyses.) Finally, I calculated the sales at motor vehicle dealers as a percentage of the total sales. The motor vehicle category is for all motor vehicles (including motorcycles […]