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- From: erodrigu@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Edgar Rodriguez)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Taurus now #1 seller?
- Message-ID: <30270@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 22:35:30 GMT
- References: <74095@cup.portal.com> <1k1cl1INN9v8@uwm.edu>
- Reply-To: erodrigu@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Edgar Rodriguez)
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- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Annapolis, MD
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- In rec.autos, qazi@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Aamir Hafeez Qazi) writes:
- >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 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.
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- I rented a compact at Hertz once but they ran out of escort's so
- I got an Accord. That's the only time I've seen one.
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- Edgar
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