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You do not have to sell that many cars to be a legitimate car company
by Marshall Brain | September 14, 2010
Think about how much press a car company like Porsche gets. Or Tesla, which just went public recently. There’s the magazine and newspaper stories, the reviews in Motor Trend, Car&Driver, Consumer reports, etc., the huge TV ad campaigns and the TV stories that result from them, appearances in movies and all the rest… Car companies get a huge amount of attention in our culture.
But have you ever thought about how many cars a company has to sell to get all that attention?
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