gratification vehicle buyers will have more types to choose from in 2002 Automakers are readying a slew of recent or redesigned cars and barters to reach baby boomers in their peak earning years and younger.

gratification vehicle buyers will have more types to choose from in 2002

Automakers are readying a slew of recent or redesigned cars and barters to reach baby boomers in their peak earning years and younger, upwardly mobile buyer Several carmakers, including General Motors Corp.'s Cadillac and Ford Motor Co.'s Lincoln, have dual-product strategies to withhold older buyers while they reposition themselves as hipper with just discovered vehicles for younger, affluent motorists.

The upper [i]finale[/i] of the luxe segment is showing more weakness than the lower [i]finale[/i] says Susan Jacobs, president of auto consultancy Jacobs & Associates. Wealthy individuals