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Show PONTIAC OFFICIAL. SAYS NEW CAR MARKET TO REMAIN GOOD Heavy demand for popular motor cars is likely to continue througrh this year and into 1951, in the , opinion of Harry J. Klinger, general manager of Pontiac Motor Division. Speak-1 ing before a Pontiac civic j group, Mr. Klinger said he believed be-lieved record-breaking new car sales were due to the following factors: 1. The continued existence of a substantial volume of unsatisfied unsatis-fied demand resulting from war shortages. 2. Large replacements of the earliest post-war cars. 3. Nearly a third of the 34 million cars now in operation are 10 years old or older and have "the aches and pains of old age." 4. Our population has grown I 20 per cent since 1936 and the number of people able to buy new cars has increased 35 per cent compared with pre-war. 5. A great population shift from urban areas to the suburbs, expanding the need for cars and raising the percentage of two-car families. |