Tell you what I want, what I really really want

By Malcolm Pitcher 2000-03-01T00:00:00

Taking focus groups at face value may not be the way for housebuilders to spice up their future collections. Carmakers have found that future hits sometimes play badly to current buyers when in research because they seem so strange and new, yet in production end up topping the charts.

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