Jack Nerad

Jack Nerad
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It makes a lot of sense when you look at the depreciation curve on a typical new car. Most of the depreciation takes place in the first two years, so someone else takes the hit,
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The used car market is a lot more regional than people realize,
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A lot of car companies have a lot of work to do.
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A lot of these people who are buying new cars shouldn't be buying new cars, period.
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There seems to be something for everyone. Auto makers are slicing the pie even narrower.
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Automakers have been subsidizing the lower end of the markets to meet CAFE standards.
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The most-researched vehicles list makes it clear that the import manufacturers are doing a better job than the domestic makers in conceiving and producing high-volume vehicles. The Big 3 automakers used to dominate the top sellers, but this list is another indication that imports are mainstream vehicles to a broad cross-section of Americans.
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Companies will be forced to build smaller cars and move away from larger ones.
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Large sport utility vehicles are pretty good deals these days - and the money you save will pay for an awful lot of gas.
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I think it's a hard drug to get the consumers off of frankly. We've certainly seen that in our surveys. Many consumers have become very dependent on incentives to motivate them to get up off the couch and into showrooms.
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I think it's a hard drug to get the consumers off of frankly, ... We've certainly seen that in our surveys. Many consumers have become very dependent on incentives to motivate them to get up off the couch and into showrooms.
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There is an element of the population out there that simply does not want to deal with car salesmen ,
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If you are talking about developing a new platform from the ground up, platform sharing probably saves tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. And it probably saves at least two or three years off the design process.
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Generally this time of year is clearance time in the auto business.