Without a comprehensive public transportation system to overcome the greater city's distances, the middle class has become mostly car-bound and wary of the city's reputation for violent crime.
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You are right of course, but predictably missing from your list of middle-class tax beneficiaries are car drivers.
Cricket is king in India, and always will be, but it is the country's car-buying middle class -- estimated at 50 million and rising -- that F1 has on its radar.
New car-owning middle-class residents go for weekend shopping at the outlets, which sells brands like Zegna, Hugo Boss and Burberry.
The Mahindra E2O is a four-seater hatchback targeted at upper-middle-class families in need of a second car in congested cities like Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore, where it expected to first go on sale.
In short, this is a Model S for the middle class, a sleek, well-appointed electric car that is a blast to drive.
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About 40 million Brazilians moved into the middle class during the past decade with more income than ever to buy their first car.
If you remember, that was when we created 23 million new jobs, we went from deficits to surplus, and folks at the top did well, too -- because when middle-class families have money in their pockets, they go out and buy that new car, or that new appliance, or that new computer for their kids, or they go out to a restaurant, or, heaven forbid, they take a vacation once in a while.
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When American companies dominated the car market, the union negotiated fat contracts that lifted its members into the middle class.
Running a well-paid job to sustain a middle-class life incurred pressures that never eased: you needed a bigger house, a better car, private schools for your growing children and shop accounts for your wife so that she looked good when business clients had to be entertained at your home.
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