The correct answer is individual preferences and tastes of buyers.
When there is increase in demand also the demand curve shifts. If there is a change in factor apart from price then the whole of demand curve shifts.
The income of consumers determines the demand of the commodity. Also prices which are related to goods and also preferences and tastes of the customer.
Demand for automobiles can be elastic where there can be delay in buying a new vehicle.
Due to many substitutes the model for automobile can be highly elastic.
It would be "China" that is currently privatizing by transferring ownership from the public sector to the private sector, since although China remains a communist country, it understands well the benefits of a certain amount of capitalism.
If you are handcuffed, you are under arrest. Miranda rights, however, apply only to questioning. If you were not questioned, or made statements voluntarily before being handcuffed, the fact that you were not read your rights is not grounds for a dismissal.
It was "Alexander I" who was the Russian Tsar who refused to surrender to Napoleon in 1812, even after Moscow had been captured and burned, since he suspected (correctly) that Napoleon's army would not be able to endure.