Looking for ways to revolutionize the car shopping experience, Audi will be opening an upscale retail center in Central London called “Audi City,” offering a new and innovative way to shop for your car.
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Taking your time and researching can reap big rewards when it comes to purchasing pre-owned vehicles.
To some, the very notion of purchasing a used car can send them running for the hills, but as with anything else, provided you do your homework, the vehicle you choose can save you thousands of dollars over that new one in the showroom, without proving to be a money pit.
Hmmmmm, we wonder how much money was spent on this eye-opening study. According to CNW Market Research, an individual’s personal tastes in a vehicle vary greatly depending on gender and age. (Insert dramatic pause here.)
The data was compiled based on questions posed to consumers by CNW about how much importance they placed on various features offered in cars. The answers where then sorted by gender and age group. Researches first started data collection 2006, and then again in 2010, to see how they’ve changed.
So here’s the scoop on what women are looking for: they look for rear visibility, cost, front visibility, remote side mirrors and side air bags when looking for a new car. On the other hand, men want styling, horsepower, engine design, front visibility and a great sound system.
The data does show some surprising information. The biggest change, from 2006 to 2010, showed the importance that women, versus men, placed on a rather bland feature: Cloth seating surfaces. Women ranked cloth seating as 11 percent more important in 2010, compared to 2006, while men ranked cloth seating as five percent less important. And the feature that showed the second biggest difference of how it was rated important by women, compared to men, over the four-year-period, was bench seats, which were more popular with women in 2006, just as they are today.
What does this research prove? Well, it goes a long way to dispel the myth that women are typically more emotional shoppers than men. Other than that, we’d say this survey goes in the “obvious” file.
[Source: AOLAutos]