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IRELAND -
Irish dance to new
CO2 tune
CO2 tax-conscious Irish car buyers, almost overnight turn to diesels in droves
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TODAY’s much favoured factors of CO2-linked vehicle taxes have injected a hitherto
unwitnessed vitality into Ireland’s diesel car market, which in turn helped more than double
the country’s July diesel car share to 62 per cent. That’s more than twice the 27.9 per cent diesel
share level recorded during this year’s opening quarter.
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DATA TABLES INCLUDED WITH THIS ISSUE |
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Ireland Car Sales
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Irish
new car sales by manufacturer & marque July 2008 v July 2007
Irish new car sales by manufacturer & marque 7-Mths 2008 v 7-Mths
2007
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Western
Europe
Car Sales
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West European
new car sales by country July 2008 v July
2007
West European
new car sales by country 7-Mths 2008 v 7-Mths
2007
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Western
Europe
Car Sales
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West European
new car sales by manufacturer & marque July 2008 v July
2007
West European
new car sales by manufacturer & marque 7-Mths 2008 v 7-Mths
2007
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Western
Europe
Truck Sales
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West European
new truck sales over 3.50t GVW by country 6-Mths 2008 v 6-Mths
2007
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Western
Europe
Truck Sales
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West European
new truck sales over 3.50t GVW by weight 6-Mths 2008 v 6-Mths
2007
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Western
Europe
Truck Sales
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West European
new truck sales over 3.50t GVW by manufacturer 6-Mths '08 v 6-Mths
'07
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PRODUCT |
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WESTERN
EUROPE
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Hitting the right
note? - Honda’s new Jazz
First peek at Honda’s one-box 2nd generation Jazz
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 A replacement for today’s Honda Jazz, a tall and
dull looking but otherwise highly rated 5-door supermini, is lined up for autumn market
availability in Europe and goes on sale in late October. First launched in domestic Japan last
October as the new Fit, this second generation same name model supersedes the first off Jazz
.....more
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WESTERN
EUROPE
- Europe’s car market heads for harder landing
Distant European skies look darker than earlier feared
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July’s 7.4 per cent dip in sales, following falls of 8 and
8.2 per cent in both May and June, suggests that West Europe’s car market continued to
deteriorate as the year went on and has evidently slipped into a much-feared downward
spiral ....more
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EUROPE/TRUCKS -
Heat has
vanished
Truck sales party in Europe is petering out
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 Truck makers, long-spoiled by booming sales
and bulging truck order books are now discovering to their dismay how much greyer
the skies suddenly look. Worse still, even a casual glance to the east, long dominated by
wall to wall sunshine, now shows the first signs of gathering storm clouds
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WESTERN
EUROPE -
VW-
So far, so good
VW’s still bucks poor European car sales trend
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While upwardly mobile Fiat continued to outperform
July’s otherwise sagging overall market with virtually unchanged sales, by far the most notable
performance to date was recorded by market dominating Volkswagen Group ....more
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BMW
GROUP - Warning of ticking time
bomb
BMW forced to shift tactics in US after leasing debacle
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 German luxury car manufacturer BMW, which
reported sharply lower second quarter net profits, was forced to cut its earnings forecast for 2008, and will,
for the time being, concentrate on other markets outside the US .....more
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JAPAN
- Toyota
- Big Bang
Toyota’s 1st quarter operating profits take 38.9% tumble
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Toyota, viewed as a global autoindustry
bellwether and likely to emerge this year as the world’s biggest carmaker, has revised
downwards its earlier sales forecast for the current fiscal year, but has stuck rigidly to its
earlier sales revenue and profit expectations ....more
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IRELAND
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"At a crossroads"
Two-in-three of Ireland’s July car buyers opted for diesel
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 Ireland’s July new car market, following the first
time introduction of CO2-linked vehicle taxes 1 July this year, followed the widely anticipated consumer
car sales patterns. That’s in the sense that Ireland’s new car buyers, all too aware of lower taxes for lower
CO2 emitting cars, flocked as expected to lower CO2 emitting diesels in
droves
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USA
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Ford
follow Toyota's structure changes
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Ford, in similar fashion to Toyota’s North American strategy,
has unveiled a transformation plan aimed at the realignment of its North American manufacturing and the addition of
several new fuel-efficient small vehicles in North America, drawing on its European product
portfolio ....more
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STOCKMARKET
REVIEW -
Wagoner sails serenely on despite mind-boggling GM losses
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 One of the wonders of the modern automotive world
is the sheer stickability, the limpet-like grip that GM CEO Rick Wagoner has on his job, despite news that
would surely doom lesser mortals to the dole queue. Is there no number huge enough to upset
Wagoner’s grip on power? ....more
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