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- From: qazi@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Aamir Hafeez Qazi)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Taurus now #1 seller?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 18:48:01 GMT
- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- In article <wfMrhV200WBM86MWo8@andrew.cmu.edu> so0z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sang-Yoon Oh) writes:
- >
- >I have a question on this number one selling car in the US.
- >According to the articles I have read, Ford gave a big promo to rental
- >car companies(dumping may be the right word here) in order to beat
- >Accord.
- >I don't know what the percentage of new Taurus is sold to rental car
- >companies but must be a huge number.
- >What is the point of having or checking who sold the most number of car???
- >To inform public that which car is the best liked by majority, isn't it??
-
- --I was just thinking about this the other day. If the sales figures indeed
- include fleet sales to rental car companies and the like, then I believe
- they should be left out. I believe that virtually all Accords are bought
- by households, not in large quantities in the fleet market (I haven't seen
- an Accord rental car, have you?). I think that sales figures should
- represent what the American PUBLIC buys, not what American business buys.
- In this light, I wonder if the Taurus really is the #1 selling car in
- the States today!
-
- --Aamir Qazi
-
-
- --
-
- Aamir Qazi
- qazi@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
- --Why should I care? I'd rather watch drying paint.
-