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...turn this around, it's exactly the same thing happening with the husband. Around 60% of all car purchases today are decided by the woman in the family. And when a neighbor asks the husband why he bought the car, he cannot say, "My wife loved the pink interior design in my car." That's basically saying, "I'm totally controlled by the woman at home." So what he's going to say is, "Did you know this window can close at 82 m.p.h.? It's the fastest-closing window in the world." And the neighbor will say, "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Shoppers Make Decisions in a Recession | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...companies are trying to find the triggers they have to pull on in order to make people feel comfortable about spending money. The best example of that was Hyundai, which said you can return your car within a year if you lose your job and get a refund. That's a major change you will see in marketing. And then you will see companies start to build the very functional, practical dimensions of their brands. If you take Louis Vuitton as an example, they will say, "In the future, when you buy a Louis Vuitton bag, it's not just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Shoppers Make Decisions in a Recession | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...manner in which the plans came about has also put teams in a spin. Not having been consulted sufficiently by the governing body, Renault said in its own statement, it was now refusing "to accept unilateral governance handed out by the FIA." (See pictures of the American muscle car in the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Formula One Run Without Ferrari? | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...Shuttering car parts suppliers, large and small, closing dealers, firing tens of thousands of white collar and blue collar workers costs the American economy, in aggregate, more money than is imaginable and very possibly more than $40 billion over the next two or three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Industry Says Adios to the Car Dealer | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...Pathos is one word that could describe the shuttering of 3,000 American car dealers. Car sales operations have not always had a great reputation with the public but the human costs of shuttering them is no different than closing a hospital or a munitions factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Industry Says Adios to the Car Dealer | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

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