Sentences with phrase «than commodity cars»

Research showed that more expensive cars fared no better than commodity cars, and in some cases as with the Honda Accord with standard halogens, they fared even better than say, a Cadillac ATS or Mercedes - Benz C - Class with advanced lighting packages.

Not exact matches

A commodities boom has driven the Canadian dollar from a 62 cents US low up to parity, vaporizing any labour cost advantage we previously enjoyed over the U.S. and changing the structure of the economy; at the margin, a Canadian worker adds far more to our economy by extracting resources than by building cars.

And thanks to income growth that has been on the upside of the wealth disparity, premium / luxury car sales are increasing at a much greater rate than commodity segments.

Genesis models, designed under the direction of former VW design director Luc Donckerwolke, will be based on RWD platforms that are not to be shared with Hyundai's commodity cars, and this potent combo all but assures that the new brand can compete with sales numbers closer to Cadillac, if not Lexus, Mercedes, and BMW, rather than, say, Lincoln and Acura.

Don't you think we could find better uses for the commodity of fresh water (which we take for granted in this country) than to water our plants or wash our cars?

Witness how major corporations consuming agricultural commodities signed up at the U.N. climate summit last week to a New York Declaration on Forests — an initiative that the World Resources Institute said «could result in more emissions reductions than removing every car, bus and plane from the U.S., China and India combined.»