With economic growth charging along at 9% last year, more and more Indians can afford cars.
If Indonesia has growing numbers of people who can afford cars, what it needs now are some decent roads.
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As a result, Americans spend two hours of each day working just to afford cars that do little to improve their happiness.
And with many households unable to afford cars, demand should be strong.
On average, Americans spend two hours a day working just to afford their cars.
Nothing at all to do with trying to enable his workers to afford his cars.
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Car manufacturers have seen sales of their smaller, mass-market models fall off, with lower income buyers unable to afford new cars in the economic downturn.
But they did not say how African taxi drivers would afford new clean cars.
With two members of the family working they could afford homes and cars and appliances and all the things they dreamed of, demand for which more than replaced the manufacture of munitions and ships.
Journalists and reporters, potential buyers and some consumers who know they will never in their wildest dreams afford the luxury cars enter Cobo Hall Arena to admire the creativity, ingenuity, and craftsmanship required to produce the cars.
If the only advantage of affluence were the ability to afford yachts, sports cars, and fancy vacations, inequalities of income and wealth would matter less than they do today.
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Just as many NASCAR fans who can't afford top of the line race cars can still buy a basic Ford Mustang, so to can many fishing enthusiasts afford to take up the sport on a casual level.
Furthermore, a significant percentage of the population still cannot afford even the least expensive cars available in the market.
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When there's no lending, families can't afford to buy homes or cars, so businesses are forced to make layoffs.
When there is no lending, families can't afford to buy homes or cars.
When the current supply of parts runs out, the thinking goes, DMC will be able to afford to produce brand-new cars as demand warrants.
If the government can afford to lavish millions on ministerial cars and salaries, it can fork out a few more rand for its public servants, they argue.
Driving is much less fun than it used to be because of increased traffic congestion and the fact that the kind of cars most people can afford are "utilitarian" and difficult to customise.
''More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay and tuition that's beyond your reach.
Mercedes puts air-conditioning controls in the back as well as the front of its cars because people who can afford a Mercedes can also afford a driver.
Unfortunately, few families can afford to buy their teen motorists brand new cars that are fitted with a full array of the latest safety features.
My friends were buying themselves cars and I couldn't even afford to take my girl out.
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No other carmaker, including the import brands, can afford to do so because the profit margins on small cars are so narrow.
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The marketing program will appeal to the well-off customers who can afford electric vehicles, which are more expensive than the typical gasoline cars.
If we assume the same ratio of car buyers is close to 70% of those that can afford them, this potential market is around 27.2 million cars on the road over the next 8 years and translates to around 16-17 million additional cars sold.
Whatever has happened since, Ford Motor Company did once pay its workers well, build good cars fast, and sell them cheap to people who, suddenly, could afford them.
Those who learn how to manage money during this time will learn to build the savings required to make a down payment on a future home, buy cars without the help of a lease or high-interest loan and eventually afford the joys that real financial freedom offers, such as frequent vacations or early retirement.
Second, we enjoy a plethora of different styles of cars because we have different tastes and because (in this case) we can afford them.
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And because of that, we can afford to fall in love with a snot-flinging rodeo bull like the V-Wagon (or cars like the now-defunct Dodge Magnum, the Audi RS6 Avant, Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG Estate or the Europe-only BMW M5 Touring).
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