High-priced foreign cars are relatively common but the most popular household appliances are inexpensive domestic models.
Galina was spoiled by a father who himself had a taste for extravagance (he had a huge collection of foreign cars).
Moreover, your argument that Korean consumers' fear of tax audits when buying foreign cars is based on an outdated report from 1999.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders sees it differently: the British motor industry supplies many of the components in those foreign cars, it argues.
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If U.S. buyers who love their foreign cars start patronizing those brands for their SUVs, and SUV demand stays flat, Detroit's overcapacity--and already thin profits--could deteriorate further.
Sales of luxury foreign cars are booming in China, and many specialty brands expect to sell more cars in China in 2011 than in any other country.
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Regardless, I think the strategy here is to provide Chinese consumers with a new product intended to wean them away from foreign cars and make them more accepting of Chinese brands.
DaimlerChrysler (nyse: DCX - news - people ) was counting on the March launch of its Pacifica sports wagon to demonstrate that smart vehicles will draw buyers away from foreign cars.
Chrysler (nyse: DCX - news - people ) was counting on its widely praised Pacifica sports wagon, first offered in March, to demonstrate that smart vehicles will draw buyers away from foreign cars.
To the extent that the Clunker plan leads to increased demand for foreign cars manufactured here, the demand is once again artificial and we do no company--regardless of country--a favor when we subsidize work for the sake of work.
Imagine a President Obama as one of his first initiatives formally embracing the Open Fuel Standard, rewarding Detroit for taking a step that is highly desirable from both an environmental and national security perspective with a bailout tied to the imposition of such a standard on both domestic and foreign cars.
No foreign companies making cars in America and no foreign companies exporting cars to America from abroad.
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The relaxation of rules on the origins of cars is to ease the concerns of major foreign investors manufacturing cars in Korea, considering their heavy dependence on foreign parts and components.
These new, jointly-developed, Chinese-branded cars are, I believe, the missing link between foreign- and Chinese-branded cars.
The truth is that our people now buy more cars with foreign nameplates than with American nameplates.
Much of the growth over the past decade reflected the windfall of cheap euro interest rates, which stoked an exuberant consumer market, complete with smart cars, foreign travel and personal trainers.
Pearson said she has owned many makes of cars, including foreign nameplates, and Saturn's treatment of customers beats them all.
Since the United States had always been a country of "cheap gas, " (a tradition that continues, by the way) American car companies were not geared up to build small, fuel-efficient cars, but foreign manufacturers were.
The fact that 70 percent of the cars made each year in China are made with foreign technology makes implementation and enforcement of emissions standards for passenger cars less problematic.
Surveys of foreign- and Chinese-branded cars' mechanical faults, by J.
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To make matters worse, the carmakers have also had to tackle a strengthening Japanese currency, which has risen more than 7% against the US dollar since April last year, making Japanese cars more expensive for foreign buyers.
In the past, foreign business offices were allowed to import cars, computers and so forth duty-free, on the understanding that they would eventually re-export them.
Fiat has put a lot of time and effort into Chrysler, bringing in foreign brands and making a push for compact cars.
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Hyundai's new plant near Madras in southern India has an annual capacity of 120, 000 cars - quite large for a foreign auto maker and a new one at that.
They'll be jobs building the wind turbines and solar panels and fuel-efficient cars that will lower our dependence on foreign oil, and modernizing our costly health care system that will save us billions of dollars and countless lives.
Domestic producers have found it hard to compete, first with imported second-hand cars and more recently with new imports and foreign brands made in Russia.
We buy more American cars than we have in five years, and less foreign oil than we have in 20.
We buy more American cars than we have in five years, and less foreign oil than we have in twenty.
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As a nation, we now buy more American cars than we have in 5 years, and less foreign oil than we have in 20 years.
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