Together with the growing durability of modern cars, Mr Ellinghorst reckons that underlying sales in developed markets could fall by as much as 30%.
Modern cars like the Cadillac ATS, Dodge Dart and Ford Escape, for example, have shuttered panels in the grille that allow air to flow more smoothly around the vehicle, depending on speed and driving conditions.
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Industry analyst Paul Nieuwenhuis said that while many customers bought luxury cars "by the meter" -- that is to say they care more about the image than the machine -- modern Rolls-Royce cars were exceptional vehicles.
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"Modern cars are impossible to work on without screwing up the safety regulations, " he says.
Others attacked him for indecency or for his cataloguing of the limitless particulars of modern life its diversity of people, its trolley cars, its technology: literature, after all, was about higher things and ought to be properly expressed.
They have also evolved with the times and, in addition to the traditional shapes such as horses and carts, new ones representing cars, trucks, airplanes and trains have appeared, reflecting the world surrounding modern-day children.
Police officers in modern cars are present throughout and big trucks full of merchandise come and go, showing the growing commercial capacity in the countryside.
The modern version debuted seven years ago and Mercedes thus far has sold about 3, 000 of the luxury cars worldwide.
But that still leaves the problem of smoothing production at the factory to preserve the economies of scale, which even in modern scaled-down plants require a throughput of about 250, 000 cars a year.
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