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2010
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August
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August 13
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Cloudy With a Chance of Sales
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July
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July 06
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Sonata Most Shopped Model in May
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May
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May 17
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The Curious Case of Honda
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2009
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November
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November 09
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Honda Competes: Insights on Insight
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October
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October 02
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Ford Competes: Ecoboost at Birth
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July
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July 31
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Suzuki SX4 Seeking Maximum Lift from Mini Comparison
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May
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May 18
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Do Online Strategies Drive Tire Prospects?
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May 18
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Compete Quicktake: Capturing Saturn Demand
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March
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March 18
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Ford Burns Racing Fuel to Sell the Fusion Hybrid
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February
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February 19
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Is the Auto Industry Showing Signs of a Recovery?
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January
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January 20
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1-2 Punch Hurts December Auto Sales
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2008
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November
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November 25
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Is the Green focus of the LA auto show the right direction for the industry?
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October
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October 27
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First Impressions are the Most Important
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September
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September 19
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Chrysler considers selling Viper. Is that a good idea?
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July
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July 24
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Round 2: 2009 Ford F-150 vs. 2009 Dodge Ram: Ugh.
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May
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May 22
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ARE CONSUMERS ACTUALLY CHANGING THEIR BEHAVIOR BECAUSE OF HIGHER GAS PRICES?
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May 06
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Round 1: The Challenge - It’s Ford and Dodge vs. a Dismal Market for Full-Size Pickups
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March
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March 07
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LAUNCH AND ABANDON? NOT CADILLAC CTS!
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February
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February 08
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Behavior Match: Social Networking and Auto Shoppers
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2007
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December
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December 31
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Top 10 Automotive Brands in Shopping Engagement
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November
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November 30
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Who is Benefiting from the NFL?
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October
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October 31
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Which Site is the King of Reviews?
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September
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September 30
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Who is Benefiting from the NFL? (Part 1 OF 3)
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August
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August 29
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Engagement at OEM Sites | Saturn Aura Gets Competitive
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July
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July 30
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Automotive OEMs: Losing Ground to Third-Party Sites
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June
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June 19
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The Configurator: Building More Engaged Prospects
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May
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May 15
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2007 Jeep Line-Up: Is Seven A Crowd?
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April
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April 18
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New Vehicle Launch Demand: Drag or Endurance Race?
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March
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March 18
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My Cadillac Story: The First Chaper
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February
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February 18
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Will the new Saturn Outlook obstruct the VUE
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February 18
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GMC scores a touchdown in Sports-Minded segment
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January
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January 18
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Silverado making noise in the full-size pickup segment
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January 18
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Toyota and Nissan Bank on Online Sponsorships
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2006
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December
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December 28
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Nitro moving forward in Reverse Cross-Shop; Kia crests and valleys
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November
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November 30
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No need for CR-V to crave shoppers; Saturn demand edges Buick, Pontiac and Cadillac demand
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November 08
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Suzuki rides motorcycle heritage; Total automotive site traffic correlated to total sales
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October
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October 31
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G5 shopper counts level off; Low new vehicle demand - Pull-ahead or paralysis?
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September
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September 29
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Mercedes moved the online needle in May; GM survival without survivor
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September 26
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Scoping the Scion
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August
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August 30
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Acura RDX Launch Analysis; Baseline For Outlander And Lancer Launches
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August 25
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Ask DR.Z Prognosis Good; Apparel-ently Porsche
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July
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July 31
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Detouring Saturn.com Visitors To CPO; Two Birds, One Stone?
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July 31
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Q7 Drives Audi Share of Marke Interest To A Period Peak; Cayman Slots in Near Boxster
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July 14
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OEM Traffic Strength Belies Market Weakness
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July 06
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The recently-launched Honda Fit has the potential to cannibalize Civic shoppers.
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May
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May 31
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OEM share loss means that the automotive online market has been growing faster than OEM site traffic
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May 03
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Better conversion offset lower demand to keep Nissan sales flat year-over-year--but at a $35M cost
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March
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March 31
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Sky shopper counts were up 60% month-over-month and approached MX-5's recent best
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February
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February 28
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Ridgeline shopper counts in January 2006 were the highest in nine months
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January
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January 27
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Compete has shown that the number of in-market shoppers increased during months when all of the Big 3 offered employee discounts. Separately, Compete identified a trend counter to norms among Toyota and Lexus SUVs.
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2005
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December
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December 28
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Xterra shopper counts increased 41% in November--shortly after it won SUV of the Year. In a separate story, Compete assessed how consumers perceived Lucerne based on cross-shop behavior among Lucerne shoppers.
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November
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November 30
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Demand was a better indicator of future IS sales potential than were historic IS sales
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October
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October 31
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Compact car demand has bettered the market as gas prices have increased.
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September
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September 30
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Accord's recent sales success has been supported by increased attraction of rival shoppers.
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August
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August 29
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Unlike in June, the Big-3 employee discounts in July drove sales more through better demand, than through better conversion.
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July
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July 29
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GM's employee discount campaign drove demand and conversion in June, but to different degrees.
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June
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June 30
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GM is using a variety of tools to regain market share. Compete assessed the effectiveness of the recent "You pay what we pay" campaign in increasing demand.
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May
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May 29
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Above $4,000, each additional dollar spent on incentives becomes less effective than the one before
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April
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April 30
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Tacoma currently has enough demand to sell up to an additional 117,500 units per year, likely at the expense of other vehicles.
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March
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March 31
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The Lansing Grand River plant produces the Cadillac CTS, STS and SRX. Compete assessed whether a lack of demand or sub-par conversion of demand to sales created the inventory surplus.
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February
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February 28
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VW is looking for a 40% increase in Jetta sales when the 2006 model launches in March, though Jetta will likely need 50% more shoppers to hit that mark.
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January
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January 31
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The all-new 2005 Nissan Pathfinder, launched aggressively in November, is key to increasing Nissan sales. To grow Pathfinder sales, it will need to conquest from rivals...
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2004
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December
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December 30
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The 2005 version of the Toyota Tacoma is larger and more powerful. The size and performance gap between Tacoma and Tundra is now smaller than among any other brand. Compete quantified Tacoma's cannibalization potential to Tundra, and...
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November
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November 30
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Acura RL looks to have belied typical launch patterns…until you look more closely
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October
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October 31
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Chevrolet needs more demand to outsell Ford this
year--using retail sales; strong conversion will not be enough
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September
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September 30
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To reach sales goals and rely less on fleet sales, Cobalt will need 20,000 more shoppers per month than Cavalier on a sustained basis
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August
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August 31
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TrailBlazer's Trail to Blazing Sales; MINI Shoppers Maximize Shopping
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August 11
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Special Compete AutoIntelligence Newsletter
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July
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July 30
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Saab XUV Expense
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June
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June 30
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Civic Sales on Demand; XLR Part of the Family
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May
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May 27
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Insight on Prius; Gender Fender Bender
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March
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March 31
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Minivans Maximize Share of Market Demand; Vibe Takes the Right Road
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February
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February 29
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X3 X5 Exchange; Verona VDQ
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January
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January 31
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Bow Ties and Ovals; Freestar and Monterey Have Not Popped
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2003
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December
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December 31
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As 2003 was winding down, several brands vied for
consumers' interest to help drive sales. Compete evaluated each brands' ability to generate interest in November as a share of all light vehicle interest.
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October
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October 31
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Excursion Extension; Mitsubishi Motors Ahead; Rainier Mounts an Attack
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September
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September 01
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Will TSX and TL Reach an Accord?; Cost of Quality; Incentive Ping for the Buck
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August
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August 29
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Touareg Climbs the Charts; xB xPloits Youth; 2004 Grand Prix Post-Launch Lift
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July
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July 31
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Range Rover Seeks Respect; MINI Maximizes Quality of Shoppers; F-Series Next in Line for Lift
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June
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June 30
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Cavalier Youth Effort by Sunfire; Hyundai Brand-Level Reverse Cross-Shop; Honda Financial Invests Wisely
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May
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May 30
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Buick's Rendezvous with Lexus; Maxima's March; Sedona's Down is an Up
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April
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April 01
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Outlander Reaches Summit; Futura in the Future; SUV Means Saab Utility Vehicle
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March
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March 30
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Pump Prices Pump Prius; CR-V Feeding Element; Compete Called Rebound in SUV Sale
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February
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February 01
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Mazda6 Puts Mazda In A New Space; Beetle Drop-Top Raises Interest; Cadillac's Super Bowl A Field Goal At Best
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January
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January 01
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Murano Finds a Middle Path; GX470 Not Yet Reaching Out; Supplying Demand Metrics
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