11.   Honda has also been quicker to adapt to a change in consumer tastes away from sedans to recreational vehicles such as its popular CR-V.

12.   Ignoring that swing in consumer tastes, Nissan has continued to push sedans, analysts said.

13.   In addition, the Big Three missed a shift in consumer taste toward small wagons, minivans and sport utility vehicles.

14.   Its primary vehicles for sales abroad will be Jeeps and mini-vans, Eaton said, modified to meet the regulations of foreign markets, not consumer tastes.

15.   Japanese department stores are starting to turn their fortunes around after reeling under the triple curse of the Kobe earthquake, falling prices and changing consumer tastes.

16.   Like other German brewers, Brau und Brunnen has been hard hit by changing consumer tastes.

17.   Many of them prefer to target their messages by consumer taste, or earnings, or ethnic group.

18.   Meanwhile the Big Three missed a shift in consumer taste toward small wagons, minivans and sport utility vehicles.

19.   Most important, furniture fashion has struggled to keep up with increasingly sophisticated consumer tastes.

20.   Or it could simply be a change in consumer taste.