Abstract:
To study the factors which are important for customers in medium sized car buying selection in Bangkok using the Analytic Network Process. This research is to study the medium sized car market for the cars in 2002-2003 models, engine size 1.6-1.8 liters, having seats for five persons with two-wheel drive. This research is to study car buying selection of Toyota, Honda, Nissan in Toyota Corolla Altis, Honda Civic 1.7, Nissan Sunny Neo, Nissan Sunny Almera because of these cars are representatives of the most popular among customers of each car company. The first method of this research is to select the factors which are important for customers in medium sized car buying selection in Bangkok by interview with using questionnaires. The target groups are the persons who use those cars, the persons who are deciding to buy cars, the persons who admire cars within the scope of this research and the specialists in car industrial market. After that, the specialists in car industrial market group the criteria and create the name of criteria in order to get clusters and elements. Then the specialists in car industrial market consider the meaning of criteria and the criteria grouping in order to get the most suitable criteria, All data are then collected for analysis and evaluation using to the program of the ANP. The analysis and evaluation of result reveals how important each factor is to car buyer in Bangkok Metropolitan Area. Moreover the score of each alternative is almost equal to the market share in 2003 and the priority of each alternative is similar with the market share in those years also. Moreover the result of this research is similar with the recent research. So this research demonstrates that the Analytic Network Process is an approach which can be applied well in the analysis of the decision structure of the medium sized car selection problem of customers in Bangkok and should be further considered for improvement to use in a wider scale