Sentences with phrase «middle class of cars»

With its 740 and 760 models, Volvo advanced into the so - called upper middle class of cars.

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By 1919, the self - taught pioneer with an eighth - grade education was producing more than half the cars in the U.S.. By lowering the cost of the automobile — eventually to $ 350 — he made cars part of the fabric of middle class America.

I gathered data for both groups regarding their careers / employment, the percentage born to wealth, poverty or the middle - class, spending habits, academic performance, education, perceptions of wealth / poverty, various health data, inherited money data, gambling habits, home ownership, car ownership, reading habits, relationship management, savings habits, self - improvement habits, time management habits, beliefs, vacation habits, volunteering habits, networking habits, voting habits and work - related data.

Welfare indirectly allows many in this country to buy I - phones, flat screen TVs and cars that are nicer than those owned by the middle class with their marginal income, by paying for all of life's necessities (food, clothing, shelter and medical services) that those in the middle class pay for out of pocket.

With church - going disproportionately a middle - to - upper - class phenomenon, congregations increasingly tend to wear the same clothes, drive the same cars, and experience the same levels of well - being and social status.

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

While they lost ground in seats with high concentrations of working - class voters, or those with no cars and poor health, they gained 2 percentage points or more in English and Welsh seats with the highest concentrations of middle - class professionals, car owners and those in good health.

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

And the Chinese middle class has adopted another American habit: living in the suburbs and relying on a car to commute, whether it be in «Orange County» outside Beijing or similar suburbs on the outskirts of every other major city.

India is a rapidly developing country with hundreds of millions of citizens who want to move into the middle class, drive cars and cool their homes with air - conditioning.

Or at least not the first one, which he believes occurred in the 1940s and»50s, courtesy of his grandmother and the emergence of the car as a middle - class commodity.

The high school is closed, and Marty's neighborhood, an otherwise perceptibly middle class compilation of front porches and two - car garages, has become some sort of ghetto.

The utter weirdness of Alex Cox's remarkable debut — a document of L.A.'s hardcore punk scene that's also an ode to its car culture, a critique of the American middle class, and a kind - of sci - fi comedy about a radioactive Chevy Malibu — would seem to preclude its existence.

He loses his place in American upper middle class corporate hierarchy - you know the nice car, the nice house — and a sense of himself as somebody important.

Again, when in a similar sense of urgency they convey the rage they feel for the middle class with momentary outbursts (for example harassing the passersby on the streets of Bakırköy, Ataköy, scratching their cars, etc.) only to swiftly retreat, they are subject to the violence of capitalism in their everyday lives.

His great - grandfather Henry Ford founded the namesake company and pioneered mass - production methods that launched the era of mobility by making cars affordable for the middle class.

Today, the American middle class is being priced out of new cars, especially SUVs.

Nowadays a lot of Malaysians can afford RM150k cars, and a lot of them are regular middle - class people, forced to be happy with bare - bone Camry 2.0 or Accord 2.0.

Also, the fuel efficiency is fine, but probably relative to other cars in its class, its just middle - of - the - road.

Its place in the middle of the pack is confirmed when you look elsewhere, with other cars in the class trumping or at least matching the Kona for interior design, quality and versatility, economy and value - for - money.

Today, though, GM is moving Saturn upscale, responding to the needs of today's middle - class consumers who expect style and performance in their cars.

Yes, the 2015 Subaru Legacy competes with the herd of largely uninteresting middle - class commuter cars, but then it goes and adds some uniquely Subaru elements.

The design's been optimised to concentrate the weight low and towards the middle, and Honda claims the car has the lowest centre of gravity in its class.

To illustrate her point, she's fond of comparing how today's middle class spends its income compared to how its predecessor managed its budget back in the days of muscle cars, big sideburns and bell - bottom pants.

If your retirement is still quite a ways off, it's often good enough just to know what you'll need to save to achieve each of three levels of potential retirement: a bare - bones basic retirement; a middle - class retirement with two cars, some restaurant meals and vacations every year; and finally, a deluxe retirement complete with a vacation home or regular jaunts around the world.

They enjoy all the trappings of middle - class life, including a paid - for three - bedroom home in a nice neighbourhood and a mid-level car.

The good economies of the 1950s and 1960s were driven by middle class earners buying durable goods (washing machines, dishwashers, cars) all which contribute to GNP.

Of course, that doesn't stop middle - class people from buying new cars; they're just cutting corners elsewhere.

Some students just couldn't make it work (usually the mistakes were to be expected of middle - class middle - schoolers, like finding a job babysitting and stretching that out full - time, only working one job, buying everything new from clothes to furniture, thinking you absolutely need convenience items you can do without, and / or trying to buy the same upscale car your dad takes to work), though most students were able to provide at least a plausible before - tax budget.

His subjects are the qualities of light and atmosphere particular to the Bay Area as much as they are his immediate surroundings in middle - class San Francisco neighborhoods — parked cars, garages, ordinary people in back yards.

A new car becomes the futurist symbol of an emergent middle class.

I would of put in a tiny bit larger pieces of gravel down the middle of the road where there thrown there by the cars passing by but all in all I truly enjoyed the classes.

The rapid adoption of cars, refrigerators, and other energy - consuming technologies will also slow as it reaches a saturation point among the growing middle class.

Q: Have you done any thinking on the relationship between low carbon innovation and the aspirations of the middle class, because what I see and a lot of us see is that the middle class in the West aspires to cars and we're seeing the same thing happen in China.

A parking lot in the middle of busy Biscayne Boulevard gets emptied of cars and filled with grass, food trucks, lounge chairs, and free yoga classes.

The obsession among the rising middle - class has an innocent and giddy feel to it, almost like America in the» 50's: Car clubs, drive - ins, glossy automotive magazines, and even luxury plates proliferate, to say nothing of the cities» high levels of pollution or the prospects of increasing land and oil consumption (see Earth Policy's brief on China's potential consumption).

On May 2 George Bush was asked about food prices, and he responded with a common complaint of those in America who think that the rest of the world has too many people and that they are getting to be too middle class, having money to buy cars, electricity and better food.

People of means could still buy craft - built cars, but there were also cars that, for the first time, middle - class families could afford, and they did in great numbers.

The cars you can expect to see picking you up — the «BMW 3 - Series, Audi A4 and Mercedes C - Class» for instance — are also considered to be middle - of - the - road.