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Kimiyuki Suda shoed be a perfect customer for Japan’s carmakers. He’s a you
Kimiyuki Suda shoed be a perfect customer for Japan’s carmakers. He’s a you
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2024-05-31
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Kimiyuki Suda shoed be a perfect customer for Japan’s carmakers. He’s a young, successful executive at an Internet-service company in Tokyo and has plenty of disposable income. He used to own Toyota’s Hilux Surf,a sport utility vehicle. But now he uses mostly subways and trains. "It’s not inconvenient at all," he says. Besides," having a car is so 20th-century."
Suda reflects a worrisome trend in Japan; the automobile is losing its emotional appeal, particularly among the young, who prefer to spend their money on the latest electronic gadgets. Alarmed by the decay of car sales and a tendency of "demotorization", the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) launched a comprehensive study of the market in 2006 and found that Japanese demographics (人口统计数据) have something to do with the problem. The country’s urban population has grown by nearly 20 percent since 1990, and most city dwellers use mass transit on a daily basis, making it less essential to own a car. Experts say Europe, where the car market is also quite mature, may be in for a similar shift.
But in Japan, the "demotorization" process is also driven by cost factors. Owning and driving a car can cost up to $ 500 per month in Japan, including parking fees, car insurance, toll roads and various taxes. Taxes on a $17 000 car in Japan are 4.1 times higher than in the United States,1.7 times higher than in Germany and 1.25 times higher than in the U. K. , according to JAMA. "Automobiles used to represent a symbol of our status, a Western, modem lifestyle that we aspired for," says Kitamura. For today’s young people, he argues," such thinking is completely gone."
Cars are increasingly just a mobile utility; the real consumer time and effort goes into picking the coolest mobile phones and personal computers, not the hippest hatchback. The rental-car industry has grown by more than 30 percent in the past eight years, as city dwellers book weekend wheels over the Internet. Meanwhile, government surveys show that spending on cars per household per year fell by 14 percent, to $ 600, between 2000 and 2005, while spending on Net and mobile-phone subscriptions rose by 39 percent, to $1 500, during the same period. [br] Like people in Japan, European city dwellers may also undergo a shift from owning a car to using ______.
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mass transit
解析
第二段末句提到,专家认为在汽车市场同样成熟的欧洲可能会经历类似的转变,从similar一词可知,此句之前一定描述了“转变”的内容。倒数第二句指出,日本的城市人口自1990年以来增长了近20%,而大多数城市居民每天大都使用公共交通工具,这使拥有汽车变得越来越不重要,也就是说越来越多的日本城市居民正在由使用私家车转变为使用公共交通工具,这也就是欧洲城市居民可能经历的类似的“转变”。题干中的may also undergo a shift是对原文may be in for a similar shift的同义转述,因此空白处应填入mass transit。
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