{"id":1631,"date":"2008-10-02T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2008-10-02T01:40:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T23:40:45","slug":"cars-in-a-slump-but-what-is-it-lack-of-or-lack-of-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1631","title":{"rendered":"Cars in a slump but what is it&#8230; lack of $ or lack of credit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-click\">\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a mce_href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:1976-porsche-archives.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:1976-porsche-archives.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/75\/1976-porsche-archives.jpg\/202px-1976-porsche-archives.jpg\" alt=\"1976 Porsche 911 Turbo Type 930 photographed a...\" title=\"1976 Porsche 911 Turbo Type 930 photographed a...\" width=\"202\" height=\"135\"\/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:1976-porsche-archives.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>September sales at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ford.com\" title=\"Ford Motor Company\" rel=\"homepage\" class=\"zem_slink\">Ford<\/a> are down 34% and the industry as a whole is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20081001\/bs_nm\/us_usa_autosales_9\">down an incredible 26%<\/a>.  Interestingly luxury cars are being hurt the most with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.porsche.com\/\" title=\"Porsche\" rel=\"homepage\" class=\"zem_slink\">Porsche<\/a> sales down 45%.  Layoffs will be massive.  What I wonder here is the chicken and egg question.  Did sales collapse because people have no money or because they have no credit?  Because so far sales of things that people normally don\u00b4t buy on credit are not down nearly as much.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/ddf0ded1-bf5d-468a-a617-643d0342c8f1\/\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\"><img style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=ddf0ded1-bf5d-468a-a617-643d0342c8f1\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1631\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via Wikipedia September sales at Ford are down 34% and the industry as a whole is down an incredible 26%. Interestingly luxury cars are being hurt the most with Porsche sales down 45%. Layoffs will be massive. What I wonder here is the chicken and egg question. Did sales collapse because people have no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}