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ISSUE
0821 Published 17-November-2008 |
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FEATURE ARTICLE
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WESTERN
EUROPE -
Light fading in stormy skies Steep 15.5% October car sales plunge sets autoindustry’s alarm bells ringing |
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EUROPE
Car Sales |
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new car sales by
country Oct 2008 v Oct
2007 European new car sales by country 10-Mths 2008 v 10-Mths 2007 |
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WESTERN
EUROPE Car Sales |
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European new car sales by manufacturer & marque
Oct 2008 v Oct
2007 West European new car sales by manufacturer & marque 10-Mths 2008 v 10-Mths 2007 |
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USA
Light
Truck Sales |
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new light
truck sales by manufacturer & segment Oct 2008 v Oct
2007 US new light truck sales by manufacturer & segment 10-Mths 2008 v 10-Mths 2007 |
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USA Car Sales |
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new car sales by manufacturer & marque Oct 2008 v Oct
2007 US new car sales by manufacturer & marque 10-Mths 2008 v 10-Mths 2007 |
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EUROPE
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"Green
Luxobarge" Mercedes S-Class diesel S-Class 320 diesel is certainly no fuel guzzler |
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WESTERN
EUROPE -
Iceman
cometh October’s tumbling European sales tell their own sorry tale |
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| An already deeply anxious industry was sent yet another sobering reminder of the difficulties ahead with news that October car sales in Western Europe slumped 15.5 per cent, coming in the wake of a 9.3 per cent sales tumble only the month before. The latest plunge brings West Europe’s cumulative ten months car sales total to a markedly slimmer 11.9m units, down 6 per cent on the same time last year ....more | ||
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WESTERN
EUROPE
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Stretchers on the
ready Europe: Fast ebbing tide bottoms most boats |
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STOCK
MARKET REVIEW -
Sending out an SOS |
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If the US Congress doesn’t come up with money - lots
of it and fast - General Motors looks doomed to bankruptcy. Chrysler, no longer the subject of merger
talks with GM, also looks to be in its death throes, while even Ford may be dragged down
too....more |
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JAPAN - Spark has
vanished |
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USA/LUXURY
MARKET - Magic
has gone Luxury carmakers take US recession full on the chin |
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The fallout from the banking crisis, plummeting house prices, credit crunch, biting recession and a growing stream of newly unemployed Wallstreet investment bankers has hit America’s previously long-buzzing market for pricey status symbols far harder than earlier feared. ....more |
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- Big
Shrink
Alarm bells - steepest US vehicle sales slide in decades |
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Next year - if the industry’s devastatingly poor
recent showing is taken as a guide - could be the first time for 16-years that US light vehicle sales
struggle to reach the 13 million mark. This and next year’s harsh US car sales fortunes support
the view that Detroit’s cash-strapped intrinsic carmakers and importers alike may eventually
be able to look back on 2008 and 2009 as a nightmare ...more
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| Porsche reported a stupendously high 115 per cent pre-tax profit margin, thanks to the shenanigans buying VW options as it consolidated its control of Europe’s biggest car maker, but some investors are pointing to some troubling factors in the luxury sports car manufacturer’s basic business. ...more | ||
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ISSUE
0820 Published 03-November-2008 |
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FEATURE ARTICLE
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GERMANY -
Volkswagen still bucks poor trends Undeterred by fast approaching storm front, Volkswagen stands by 2008 targets |
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CHINA Car Sales |
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new car sales
by manufacturer & marque
Sep 2008 v Sep
2007 Chinese new car sales by manufacturer & marque 9-Mths 2008 v 9-Mths 2007 |
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Western
Europe Diesel Cars Sales |
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Western
Europe Cars Sales |
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WESTERN
EUROPE ++Statistical
Supplement++ |
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| World - New car sales by major market first 9 months 2008 v first 9 months 2007 + history. W.Europe - Detailed new car sales analysis by manufacturer and market first 9 months 2008 v first 9 months 2007 + history | ||
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KINGDOM
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"Green Driving machine"
BMW 3-Series 2009MY BMW, with 3-Series facelift, is now singing from CO2 hymn sheet |
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CHINA
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Fasten your
seatbelts China fails to light up way through dark winter gloom |
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| The fanciful idea that fast emerging automotive markets like China and Russia would continue to sail on serenely at a time when most developed western markets like the US, Europe and Japan were knocked seriously off course by today’s sudden storm tossed seas, now appears little better than earlier wishful thinking. That’s underlined by latest AID compiled figures showing a distinct and progressive slowing in China’s new car demand ....more | ||
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GERMANY
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Der Hedge fund
killer Porsche’s Sunday homily - 74.1% stake in VW - causes stock market frenzy |
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WESTERN
EUROPE/DIESELS -
Very alive and
kicking Slowing diesel car market tempts doom-sayers into unreliable inference |
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Europe’s long flourishing love-affair with the
diesel car, following more than a decade of fast growth, and culminating last year when well
over half the new cars sold in Western Europe were diesel powered, has ground to a halt.
However, a closer examination of the reasons why growing numbers of car buyers are
suddenly deserting the long-booming diesel car market suggests this may be little more than a
temporary storm in a teacup rather than a |
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STOCK
MARKET REVIEW - Mercedes’ profit
plunge |
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STOCK
MARKET REVIEW - Rude
awakening
Storm clouds gather as Europe car sales hit a wall |
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Peugeot’s Streiff warns on possible forced
mergers - Hopes dashed that Europe could be immune from US contagion - Will EU intervene
to stop the slide? ....more |
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- Octoberfest
Audi, jewel in VW’s crown, posts 8% profit margin |
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A quick health check for the brand sporting the four
ring emblem, which also ranks as the group’s most profitable group member, reveals a robust 13.6 per
cent rise in nine months operating profits to €2.06bn, thus boosting Audi’s operating margin to 8 per cent
from 7.2 per cent a year ago......more
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First
9-Months 2008 new car sales performance analysis by manufacturer and market
throughout Western Europe
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