Many automakers set November sales records or hit their best sales levels since 2000, as consumers continue to enjoy gas prices that are under $2.00 per gallon in many parts of the country and seem to be plowing their monthly savings into new vehicles, especially gas-thirsty pickup trucks and SUVs. One of the exceptions to the bull-run on car sales was Volkswagen of America, which got pummeled with a 25 percent hit , owing in large part to very limited sales of diesel vehicles, which often account for a quarter of the German automaker sales.