I think, or at least I hope, that one's a puff-piece to make local dealers (advertisers) happy.

Here's one pointing the other way:

Higher gas prices mean lower SUV sales

Smart Motors Inc., a Toyota dealership in Madison, has had a shift in buyer interest, too. Three years ago, about 3% of its yearly sales were gas-electric hybrid vehicles. Now, general manager Allen Foster said, hybrid sales account for 20% - one of every five vehicles sold.

But perhaps nothing spells out more clearly the impact of $3-plus gas than the July statistics from the National Automobile Dealers Association. Sales of large new SUVs were down 19% through the first seven months of 2006, and sales of new hybrid vehicles were up 27%.

Not to burst your bubble, Odo, but it's a comparison that may not generalize well. On the one hand we're looking at what seems to be a typical affluent region (sprawl?) near Pittsburgh. On the other hand we're comparing it the somewhat self-righteous yuppie/professional but old-line region of Madison, Wisconsin close to the dealer, the sort of place where the houses are grand and old, the leafy curvy streets have sidewalks and are infested with speed bumps and "slow for kids" lawn signs, and despite all that, almost no one is walking (on most days of the year it's too hot, too cold, too rainy, or too icy.) And on the third hand - so much for that metaphor - Madison is sort of a Berkeley East to begin with.
Yeah I agree, it's Madison after all, of course they're going to be selling a ton of hybrids......
That was a quick google for stats.  I'm pretty sure the national numbers are running pretty hard against SUVs right now ... this one is a little old, March  06:

US Sales of Full-Size SUVs Continued Decline in March

Yeah, SUV sales are tanking, thank God. I look forward to that if only because there will be a great gain in humor nationwide watching obese ex-SUV-owners get in and out of small cars lol!