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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

The Truth About Cars

However, saying that this is the vehicle women most desire — let alone are willing to spend money buying — is probably a stretch. Honda Civic). Women tend to buy smaller vehicles boasting lower MSRPs than their male counterparts. Originally, this just meant focusing on outdoorsy types with a penchant for smaller vehicles.

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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

The Truth About Cars

However, saying that this is the vehicle women most desire — let alone are willing to spend money buying — is probably a stretch. Honda Civic). Women tend to buy smaller vehicles boasting lower MSRPs than their male counterparts.

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I bought Harley’s new electric motorcycle. Delivery was a hot mess, but still awesome

Baua Electric

It also carried an equally high price tag of nearly $30k. The high price tag combined with the Harley branding meant that the market was limited mainly to wealthy, older brand loyalists, and they weren’t exactly buying it by the thousands. Do you know how much gasoline 19 cents will buy you? A tea cup’s worth.

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Automotive Market Research Perspectives on Selling Green in a Try-to-Survive Market

Green Car Congress

The role of emotion in buying cars. Edwards and Miller both emphasized the importance of a buyer’s emotion in purchasing a vehicle. Would you buy this vehicle? Are there more important messages, like hybrids are reliable, that the consumers are missing? Gasoline may cost between $3-$5 while you own this vehicle.

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Does the future of electric cars hinge on costs?

Green Cars News

According to Ron Cogan, founder and editor of the Green Car Journal , the Obama administration is betting heavily on technology and that electric cars are not an exclusive answer to future transportation challenges and consumers will not be willing to buy them at all costs.

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LA show displays green car ‘glimpse into the future’

Green Cars News

Hybrids still represent the largest volume of “green” vehicles including the popular Toyota Prius, Honda Insight and Ford Fusion hybrids. As consumers start to show a renewed interested in buying vehicles, the auto show is. Honda FCX Clarity. Honda Insight Hybrid. Honda Civic Hybrid Sedan. Honda Civic GX NGV.

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Could Toyota manufacturing hit rice paddies?

Green Cars News

Toyota is under pressure to get more hybrid and fuel efficient cars on the road, particularly after Honda introduced its Insight hybrid in February and will sell a hybrid version of the Fit compact beginning in April 2010. Tags: Green cars Green credentials Latest news Toyota Japanese rice paddies Toyota Prius.

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