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Old 10-08-2019, 02:12 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by Gunkk View Post
Good points, COmaro.

A truism in Sales: Price drives behavior.

In new car sales, volume is all about affordability. Here are the numbers to back it up.

Two biggest accelerators of this are the natural inflationary tendencies and the second is Obama signing the 2012 EPA mileage standards. That cost manufacturers billions upon billions of dollars in drivetrain and body lightening to get where we are today. The cost just got passed down to use the consumer.
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