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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:32:49 -0500
- From: Sang-Yoon Oh <so0z+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Taurus now #1 seller?
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan26.220510.24138@tandem.com>
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- Excerpts from netnews.rec.autos: 26-Jan-93 Re: Taurus now #1 seller? by
- Bill Norcott@tandem.com
- > The other thing to consider is that Ford chooses to market the same
- > car as two different models: Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable. The Sable
- > sells almost half as many units as the Taurus. In the U.S. market,
- > the Japanese companies sell only one model in each size/price class.
- > Suppose they split their production and called 2/3 of them Honda
- > Accord and the other 1/3 Acura something. Then the Honda Accord would
- > be nowhere close to the Taurus in sales. Or to put it another way,
- > if you combine the sales of the Taurus and Sable, they far surpass
- > sales of the Honda. By the way, in their home market the Japanese
- > companies sell a variety of models in the same size class, many of
- > them clones of each other. For whatever reasons, they put all their
- > eggs in one basket in the U.S. market.
- >
-
-
- Well, according to my knowledge, they combine Tarus and Sable when they
- count the yearly sales of Tarus.
- Couple of magazines I have read has the list of top 10 sellers in US in
- this format.
-
- 1. Ford Tarus/Mercury Sable
- 2. Honda Accord
-
- I can't remember the number figure but I'm pretty sure that they combine
- number of Tarus and Sable they have sold, since they are exactly same
- car with different nose and interior.
-
- --Sang
-