Linx Automobile Marketing Plan
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MARKETING PLAN: INTRODUCTION OF THE LINX AUTOMOBILE Executive Summary The Linx Motor Company will provide fuel efficient, environmentally sound automobile transportation products for the American market. The Linx will be an environmentally sound automobile, as opposed to a pollution free vehicle. The target market for the Linx will be the driver whose automotive transportation needs may be effectively and efficiently served by an automobile with a driving range of 100 miles or less between battery pack recharging, those drivers for whom high speed driving is neither required nor sought, and those drivers willing to pay a higher acquisition price and pay the high cost of battery pack replacement in return for much lower general maintenance costs, energy expenditures approximating one- half the amount for internal combustion powered vehicles, and almost no noise from the operation of the vehicle. Lastly, the target market for the Linx will be defined as those drivers residing in critical air pollution areas, such as the Los Angeles Basin, where the operation of polluting vehicles will become increasingly more restricted and expensive. The promotional campaign for the Linx will seek to educate the target market on the benefits to them available through the purchase of a Linx automobile. The marketing strategy for the Linx will also be based on high levels of service, high levels of
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or technological advances have
permitted automobile manufacturers to maintain growth in total
revenues over the past two decades. In the context of units
produced, however, the industry performance trend has been
dismal.2
Since the 1970s, American automobile manufacturers have
faced increasingly stiff competition from foreign manufacturers.3
Fuel efficiency, meeting environmental protection standards,
product quality, and cost are the main factors that have placed
the American industry at a competitive disadvantage.4 Rather
than address these issues head-on, American automobile
manufacturers have tended to seek governmental protection from
imports, by claiming alternatively that (1) the American industry
cannot meet the standards attained by the foreign manufacturers,
and that (2) foreign countries discriminate against American-made
automobiles. For the most part, such claims are appear to be
ludicrous. Certainly, American industry could attain the
standards achieved by the foreign manufacturers if they were
willing to sacrifice short-term profits for long-term gain as the
Japanese automobile
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Approximate Word count = 3187
Approximate Pages = 13 (250 words per page)
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