The book deals with the material culture of individual mass motorization in Germany since the 1960s. It asks how German and North-American car companies differed in their responses to the challenges of economic and social change, emerging public consumerism, and eco-criticism. The study not only kept an eye on the practical implementation of interactive marketing management, and showed that the >management of change< of the firms benefit greatly from enormous scientific advances in market research techniques. Moreover, the study traced the transfer of marketing ideas and know-how between the United States and Germany. Unveiling the great difficulties of US-consultants as well as the Ford and GM branches in Germany when adapting their proven-in-use marketing methods to different social stratifications and market conditions, the book shed new light on the still popular notion of >Americanization<. Here, comparing the marketing strategies of domestic and foreign automobile manufactures provided a relational microanalysis of the impacts of globalisation on a local market level.
