Daniel Albert follows car trends:
It takes about a generation for cars to change. Tin Lizzies that served first generation drivers were too old fashioned for the young buyers of Chevrolets in the 1920s. A couple of generations ago New York City’s taxi was the Checker, for the past generation it has been the American sedan, and in another decade it will be a bespoke minivan. This kind of change happens to car brands as well. Cadillac descended from the pinnacle of luxury marques into the depths of the welfare queen’s ghetto. But brands can ascend as well. So it has been for Toyota—you paid what for a Land Cruiser?—and so too the Koreans, the Hyundai Kia Automotive group, are now ascendant.
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