LAST AUTO NEWS – SURVEY: AMERICANS WANT SMALL CARS, UNLESS THEY'RE SMALL CARS

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Battered by a recession, with the anamnesis of $4 gas just a year old, the American car client is cerebration about a abate car. As continued as it isn’t, you know, a baby car..

Kicking Tires explains, “A contempo abstraction from AutoPacific surveyed added than 32,000 new car and ablaze barter buyers in the U.S and asked what American car buyers wish and how accommodating they are to abbreviate into abate cars. The abstraction begin that while humans are accommodating to buy a added fuel-efficient car, they don’t wish to decidedly downsize.”

In a columnist release, AutoPacific President George Peterson writes, “This analysis shows that present owners of the aboriginal cars like the Toyota Yaris, Honda Fit and Chevrolet Aveo wish added ability and acceleration, added technology and added burden allowance next time they buy. If they bought these cars they accustomed lower ability and burden allowance for bigger ammunition abridgement and a top amount price, but in the approaching they wish something added – bigger, faster and with added accretion and whistles.”

The trend, USA Today notes, “Could augur able-bodied for automakers like Ford, which is wants to amount up baby cars with appearance and a exceptional feel that could advice them command college prices. That’s the barometer in Europe, area streets are narrower and ammunition added pricey. But it hasn’t formed in America, area until recently, baby cars were the bargain active best of accepting and seniors.”

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