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The high level analysis of vehicles in general for vehicle defects showed a high correlation of the defect type and the vehicle type, which is expected since certain defects apply only to trucks. The Causal Unit analysis given immediately below establishes that: (1) the most over-represented vehicles are heavy trucks (as we might expect), but (2) the highest frequency is in the Passenger Cars and SUVs, which are the most UNDER-represented.