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FEATURE ARTICLE
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WORLD -
All clear, or mere eye of the storm?
After nightmarish start,
2009 global car production ends on a decidedly upbeat note |
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LAST year’s global passenger car production looks considerably healthier
than could have been expected during the early part of last year when
something close to wild-eyed panic summed up the closely harboured real
mood of most autoindustry thinkers.
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DATA TABLES INCLUDED WITH THIS ISSUE |
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WORLD
Car Production
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Selected world markets new
passenger car production by
country 2009
v 2008 |
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CHINA
Car Sales
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Chinese new car
sales by manufacturer and marque
Dec 2009
v Dec 2008
Chinese
new car sales by
manufacturer and marque 12-Mths '09
v 12-Mths '08 |
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WESTERN
EUROPE
++Statistical
Supplement++
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World - New car sales by major market
12-Mths 2009 v
12-Mths 2008
+ history.
Western Europe - Detailed new car sales analysis by
manufacturer and market:
Full Year 2009 v Full Year 2008 + history
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UNITED KINGDOM
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"Hybrid Evolution" Toyota’s new Prius
"Bright Spark" Excellent new Prius is not yet in the planet-saving class |
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At a time when the only certainty is uncertainty,
Toyota has launched a new car that will defy all
industry expectations if it fails to attract large
numbers of willing buyers both in domestic
Japan and abroad
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IN
DEPTH AND OTHER ARTICLES |
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WORLD
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"On Tow" Car production
Governments’ recovery
service gets stuttering global car production going |
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Against some of the worst possible odds, last year’s remarkably positive
turnout - with sales marginally topping the 13.55m new cars sold in 2008 -
is due in large measure to the spectacular success of scrappage incentives
in Germany
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CHINA
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"World Locomotive"
China’s car market has
experienced the most extraordinary year |
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By
any standards, China’s car market has experienced the most extraordinary
year
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CHINA
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"Miraculous deathbed recovery"
China’s small domestics
were last year’s big winners
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If ever proof was needed that timely and well
chosen government action can ride to the
rescue of a clearly struggling domestic
carmaker, China provides the evidence
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STOCK MARKET VIEW
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Toyota’s sticky-throttle - hard stab on brakes
Factories shut,
production of eight vehicles idled
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Action linked to unintended acceleration recall
- It’s a public relations nightmare for Toyota
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STOCK MARKET VIEW
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"Life after certain death" - Saab
Saab resuscitated by
Spyker of the Netherlands |
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Marchionne
wants to see more realism, less romance
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BELGIUM -
GM to close Antwerp assembly site this year
GM’s Antwerp car assembly
site to cease operation this year |
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GM,
following an eleventh hour decision to keep
rather than sell its European offshoot,
comprising both the Opel and Vauxhall vehicle
brands, gave notice of its intention to close this
year its Belgium Antwerp vehicle assembly site,
resulting in the loss of some 2,600 jobs
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++ Quarterly Supplement ++ |
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12 Months 2009 new car sales
performance analysis by manufacturer and market throughout Western
Europe
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