SALES OF U.S. CARS AND TRUCKS FALL IN JANUARY.(Business)

Byline: ALAN L. ADLER Associated Press

Sales of domestically built cars and trucks fell 3.1 percent in early January, reflecting the end of special year-end deals on some models, automakers' figures showed Wednesday.

Average daily car sales were off 4.5 percent and trucks down 1.2 percent.

"It's not unusual to see this hiccup after seeing these tremendous pushes at the end of the year like we had with Ford and Honda," said Steve Girsky, an auto industry analyst with PaineWebber Inc. in New York. "The incentives came off and people stopped buying."

The projected annual rate for car sales based on the first 10 days of the month was 5.3 …