Would carmakers revert to their old habits of producing big cars with big engines?
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They are stereotyped as wanting big cars, lots of money and all kinds of fame.
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For Toyota, by 2008 big cars were contributing JPY 2 trillion (USD 25 billion) of operating profits.
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Because, legally, a car is just its VIN plate, it would be possible to keep the existing big cars in service forever.
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Big expensive cars which drive superbly on the autobahn are not the same as the big cheap cars that most Americans prefer to drive.
Doing so would result in more gasoline being burned over time than if it were legal to replace them with new big cars employing updated technology.
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But will less-volatile gas prices give consumers the itch to jump back into big cars and trucks with the same vigor as they did back in the early 2000s?
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The pair used the money for everything but real estate by paying themselves big salaries, buying big cars and then saw fit to dabble in some currency trading that ended in total losses.
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And how makers of big cars and trucks will ever be able to convince drivers to feel anything but embarrassed about a vehicle that gets four miles per gallon is among their biggest challenges.
The founder of a company producing features for cable television stations, who is obsessed with film noir -- murder mysteries shot in black and white "with warped gangsters and neurotic heroes and dangerous women, shiny wet streets and big black cars with their headlights on" -- has disappeared.
This factory closing is a symbol of the fact that those days unfortunately can't come back, and in a way, in a global sense, so to speak, it's for a good reason because the fewer of those big guzzling cars we produce, the more leverage we'll have on certain rather pressing geopolitical issues elsewhere.
They live in big houses and drive cars about twice as big as they need to be.
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Ebay stops working well for Reardon on big-volume cars like Fords, Pontiacs and Jeeps.
Overturned big rigs and cars littered portions of the roadway, and thousands more were believed to be stuck in the traffic.
It just gives you better options for future financial decisions on big things like cars, a personal home loan or even investments.
These big-engined cars, particularly automatics, are proving hard to shift.
A123 really bet big on electric cars.
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Already there are calls for policy changes to fix the flaws in America's energy infrastructure exposed by Katrina: its tight refining capacity, its dependence on offshore drilling in the hurricane-prone Gulf, its love affair with big, inefficient cars.
If not in the race cars, she hopes it will do it at least in the big rigs that haul the cars from race shop to tracks all over the country, burning so much diesel it makes Munter cringe.
Compared with previous generations, today's younger techies are less interested in owning cars and big houses.
Brazil is a cash-based society where people pay in cash for big stuff, like cars and houses.
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For growth in the sales of big, powerful prestige cars, manufacturers will have to rely on emerging markets.
There's a shift, like I said, to cars from big trucks or SUVs.
What emerges from the film is that these people, and many others, have taken a big gamble with electric cars.
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Norway imposes a ruinous import levy on cars with big engines.
Most have benefitted by the ensuing rising tide of economic expansion and have been able to buy their smart phones, laptops, big screen TVs, cars etc.
Since rising prices would mean money spent now will go further than later, the government hopes to get Japanese to step up spending, especially for big ticket items like cars and houses.
One of the big problems with electric cars is providing enough power to help a car accelerate up to a decent speed, while at the same time having enough capacity for a decent range.
He has a big house and two cars.
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In economic booms when money is flush, consumers are more apt to buy luxury cars and big TVs, eat beef rather than chicken and take pricey vacations, all of which lift the overall consumer prices.
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