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Not the best of mornings to be buying or selling a new car. But December saw a big surge in sales and 2002 broke all records. Bumper sales though didn' t mean bumper profits. With fierce competition from discount dealers, car makers have offer motorists more. Ten per cent discount across without asking nought per cent finance all sorts of consumer offers. Small was beautiful in 2002: what the trade calls supermini cars like the Renault Clio, accounted for around a third for all sales. It seems that motorists were looking for cars that were cheap to buy and to run. Diesel models were also more popular, helped by tax breaks. They now account for nearly a quarter of all new cars. What didn' t do quite so well was the market in sports car. Perhaps in these nervous economic times, boy and girlracers are bit thinner on the ground. After two record breaking years, the industry is now in a more cautious mood. The reality is the cheap loans, the feelgood factor not necessarily there for the rest of this year, so I would expect to see around 2. 38 million new cars this year. That' s about a seven per cent falloff from last year. Customers who were put off by the high cost of buying a car in Britain have now been won over by better deals, but with competition fiercer than ever, a motorist is well placed to drive a hard bargain. Rory CellanJones, BBC News. |
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suī rán bú shì mǎi mài xīn chē de zuì jiā shí qī, dàn shí èr yuè xiāo shòu é jí zēng, 2002 nián tū pò yī qiè jì lù. rán ér, gèng duō de xiāo shòu bìng bù yì wèi zhe gèng fēng hòu de lì rùn. pò yú jīng xiāo shāng gěi chū de dà liàng zhé kòu, qì chē chǎng shāng bù dé bù gěi chē zhǔ gèng duō yōu huì. dǒng shì huì tōng guò 10 zhé kòu, méi yǒu yāo qiú gè lèi xiāo fèi zhě yù zhī dīng diǎn xiàn jīn. 2002 nián xiǎo xíng chē fēng jǐng dú hǎo: yè nèi chēng qí chāo jí mí nǐ xíng, xiàng léi nuò kè lì ào pǎo chē, zhàn le dà yuē 1 3 de xiāo shòu é. sì hū chē zhǔ xún zhǎo zháo pián yí dī néng hào de chē zi. yóu yú xiǎng shòu shuì shōu jiǎn miǎn, chái yóu kuǎn yě gèng shòu huān yíng. xiàn zài, tā men zhàn le yuē 1 4 de xīn chē liàng. bù jǐng qì de shì pǎo chē shì chǎng. kě néng zài jīng jì jǐn zhāng shí qī, kāi pǎo chē de rén huì gèng shǎo. liǎng nián chuàng jì lù zhī hòu, yè nèi gèng wéi jǐn shèn. shì shí shì dī dài kuǎn. gǎn jué liáng hǎo de yīn sù bìng bù néng yǒu lì yú jīn nián de hòu jǐ gè yuè, suǒ yǐ wǒ yù jì jīn nián yǒu yuē 238 wàn liàng xīn chē miàn shì, zhè bǐ qù nián yuē jiǎn shǎo 7. xiàn zài, yīng guó yīn chē jià gāo áng ér tuō yán gòu chē de gù kè men bèi gèng hǎo de jiāo yì xī yǐn guò lái, dàn jìng zhēng bǐ yǐ wǎng gèng jī liè, chē zhǔ huì pīn mìng tǎo jià huán jià. yīng guó guǎng bō gōng sī Rory CellanJones de bào dào. |