We expect U.S. sales of light motor vehicles to stabilize at 11.7 million units for 2010. By the standard of 2007, when 16.1 million vehicles were sold, our projection for this year is still weak, but represents a 13% increase from 2009. We revised our outlook on Capital Automotive and Capital Automotive L.P. (collectively CARS) to stable from negative because we believe that the recovery in sales volume puts CARS' auto dealer tenants on firmer footing. Stabilizing industry fundamentals improve CARS' longer-term recapitalization prospects (to address the 2012 maturity of its large secured term loan). We also affirmed our 'B' corporate credit rating and our 'B' senior unsecured debt rating on CARS. Our recovery rating on the company's senior unsecured
