Final Customer Purchasing from the Product Producer

Use Steps: Use steps include all the customer's value added activities or the consumption of the product itself. These steps include all the costs the customer incurs in employing the product in its intended use.

C.
Experience: Enhance the experience the customer has with the product

2. Associate the company or the product with an image to increase customer pleasure in using the product

D. Suggest personal characteristics of the user of the product

Fast or powerful

No.	SIC	Year	Note
1	3711	2000	Strong futuristic lines have been applied to everything from concept vehicles to a new ad campaign and streamlined logo. Although this change may appeal to a younger crowd, it goes against most of what a typical Cadillac buyer wants, oversized comfort and security.
2	3711	2001	Buyers are paying for a direct link to the cars that have won France's famous Le Mans race 16 times–not to mention thousands of other races. To maintain the mystique, the company refuses to electronically cap the speed of its cars, as other makers do.
3	3711	2000	Cadillac is coming out with a new $75,000 convertible roadster, which will be available in the next few years. This represents a high-stakes move by General Motors' Cadillac division to reposition itself in the luxury-car market after a quarter-century.
4	3711	2003	General Motors Corp. has taken a defeated luxury brand two decades past its peak and turned it into a new product. Cadillac has created new models such as the Escalade SUVs and CTS sedans. The brand is coming out with three new models over the next year. General Motors launched a $4.3 billion campaign to resurrect the fading Cadillac brand by remodeling the car with stealth-fighter angles and aggressive looking grills that appear on the Escalade and CTS sedan. GM has engineered its Cadillacs to drive more like sports cars than cruisers and marketed them to younger baby boomers.
5	3711	2003	Project Mount Everest is Toyota's latest project of a car that is expected to hold its own against the $141,800 Aston Martin DB7 Vantage and the $113,250 Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG. The car has a V10 engine.

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