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Show AVERAGE MOTOR CAR BUYER IS I 34 YEARS OLD AND MARRIED I Who I" th ,iverncr motor vehicle buyer? A hard question to answer because it very nearly parallels the query, Who Is the avr:ige citizen'.' ' But composite pictures of the motor vehicle buyer are not lacking. Probably Prob-ably the best statistics on the buyer in existence are those gathered by the great acceptance corporations who annually finance millions of dollars" dol-lars" worth of time payment sales aid who consider the automobile borrower borrow-er the safest risk they ever Lent money upon. One of these concerns has supplied th" National Automobile Dealers is-soclation is-soclation with an analysis of ' 2500 sales financed by it, selected at random ran-dom from transactions handled by them up to May l!, 1922. Ford car wiles are not included in this list because be-cause this particular survey was requested re-quested to ?ct a plctuie of buyers above the Ford class. This average purchaser has a net equity in real estate of S4.2S6.0S. He H ha i net equity In personalty of $2,- JH 07:. 36. He has a definite monthly iH Income of $349.70 He purchases a H car averaging 31.361 96 in cost, on H which he pays down $698.31. He JH agrees to pay the balance. $668.65, in B; monthly installments of $96.60. This average buyer is 34 years old. L. Seventy-four per cent of average buy- W- ers are married. 82 per cent hava 'mj bank accounts and 69 per cent carry B; life insurance, Of the transactions handled by the Iji acceptance corporation between Jan- BP- nary 1 and June 1, 1922. 66 per cent R?1 of the purchasers had owned a car BL- before and 4g per cent of that nuns H ier had purchased their cars on time. By ' Based on our experience of more iMg than five years," says this company, Kt 'nots arising out of the sale of low and meriium-prlced passenger cars ,B& and light delivery trucks are the most ;Sr catisfactory." |