Big carmakers

Kings of the road

Size is not everything for mass-market carmakers. But it helps

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Since the largest prospective markets generally have the worst supportive infrastructure (think China and Brasil, two big questions crop up naturally:
1. where to park and drive the damn things, in the middle-term; and
2. what happens when public services step in enough to move people around more efficiently and cleanly in the longer one?

An obvious answer is to develop a range of two-seater powered tricycles that take up less space and consume less energy, and tax four-wheelers progressively as luxuries, absent very particular situations. A resulting influx of two-wheelers will both save short-haul money and make the peddlers healthier

Honesty is the best policy

This is a very poor article. Since the topic is size of auto makers why is there no mention of the fact that sheer size is a huge problem? Toyota , GM and Ford have all almost failed in the past few years due to over reach, greed and slow cumbersome management.

Perhaps the Economist could afford to have someone with some real knowledge of the auto industry write a more informed and meaningful article?



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