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ISSUE 1003
Published - 16 February
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WESTERN EUROPE -
Deceptive 15.7% January car sales lift Sceptics see reasons why double-digit January jump clouds true underlying picture |
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"Sitting pretty" Peugeot’s new 5008 Peugeot announces late arrival of 5008 Compact P-Carrier |
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"Pivotal Position" Germany holds key to this year’s European car sales fortunes |
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"Rio’s still dancing" Brazil, along with China and India passed 2009 crash test |
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US vehicle market gets off to a promising start |
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"The axeman cometh" - Bernhard and Daimler |
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"In the line of fire" - Toyota Toyota - Current difficulties have tarnished its golden halo |
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"Spring Offensive" - Renault Renault January’s outstanding winner in the leading pack |
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"Back on the runway" - Opel Opel unveils new flight plan |
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ISSUE 1002
Published - 02 February
2010 |
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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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"Hybrid Evolution" Toyota’s new Prius "Bright Spark" Excellent new Prius is not yet in the planet-saving class |
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"On Tow" Car production Governments’ recovery service gets stuttering global car production going |
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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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CHINA
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"Miraculous deathbed recovery" |
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STOCK MARKET VIEW
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Toyota’s sticky-throttle - hard stab on brakes |
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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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GM to close Antwerp assembly site this year GM’s Antwerp car assembly site to cease operation this year |
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ISSUE 1001
Published - 15 January
2010 |
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FEATURE ARTICLE
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All’s well that ends well Worst potential car sales slump for decades turned after all into all round satisfactory year |
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GERMANY
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"Top-notch Technocrat" Audi’s new A8 Audi’s new technology-packed A8 ready for take-off |
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"Governments to the rescue" Europe’s slump-struck car market has sprung back to life in astonishing manner |
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"Home
advantage"" - Volkswagen Group Booming home market lifts VW Group into record orbit |
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USA
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Detroit show under bankruptcy shadow |
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JAPAN
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Toyota Prius is Japan’s 2009 top selling car |
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FRANCE
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Peugeot - "Promotion battle - 10th to 7th" Sharper claws to Peugeot’s Lion, eyes on 7th slot in 2015 global vehicle sales league |
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FRANCE -
Peugeot - "Motion & Emotion" Peugeot, to counter stale image, is about to reinvent itself |
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Hangover Europe Germany tipped to lead Europe’s sales downturn in 2010 |
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ISSUE 0923
Published - 17 December
2009 |
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FEATURE ARTICLE
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WESTERN EUROPE -
Clutch pedal retreat West Europe’s decade-long drive to two-pedal cars gathers added momentum |
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USA
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"Ready for take-off" US Ford Fiesta debut Ford’s Mexico-made Fiesta heads for US showrooms |
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"Automatic Promotion" Europe’s automatic car production share more than doubles in 10 years |
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WORLD
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"Ready for Baby Boom" - VW/Suzuki VW buys 19.9% in small car specialist Suzuki |
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"What Slump?" |
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MARKET VIEW
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"Wedding Bells?" - PSA/Mitsubishi |
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FRANCE
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"French counter offensive" Late Gallic bounce seen as last minute damage limitation |
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UNITED KINGDOM
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UK stopped trucking? Britain’s truck market still shivering in icy grip, but slow thaw looms ahead |
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GERMANY
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Germany tracks 3rd best car sales on record New car sales in this year’s German market remain on track for the third highest level in history |
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ISSUE 0922
Published - 02 December
2009 |
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FEATURE ARTICLE
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BRAZIL -
Brazil’s motor is still firing on all cylinders Brazil’s passenger car market, evolving into one the world’s fastest gaining car markets |
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"Highly geared" - Volkswagen’s new Golf 1.6TDI Impressive on paper, but on-road economy is less striking |
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BRAZIL
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"Preparing for the rush" Brazil giant has woken up from long-held slumber |
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SOUTH KOREA
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"Car Export Juggernaut" |
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MAN
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STOCK
MARKET VIEW
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Car Aid Europe’s 2008/2009 car sales recession looks mild by historical standards |
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FRANCE
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PSA - "Brighter Horizon" Peugeot-Citroën raises current year outlook |
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ISSUE 0921
Published - 17 November
2009 |
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WESTERN EUROPE -
The great escape Car sales pendulum has swung firmly back to the positive side, 5th rise in a row |
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FRANCE
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Renault aims high with spark-fuelled Fluence Renault picks Turkey for production of electric car |
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"Drip feed recovery" Europe’s robust October car sales further bolster autoindustry mood |
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Truck Market -
"Deepest winter chill" Europe’s truck sales recession tightens its grip |
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"Volkssturm" |
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The Volkswagen brand, the biggest of Europe’s volume car makers, turned in unexpectedly strong sales during this year, setting it on track this year to equal the record 11.6 per cent sales share in Western Europe it first recorded in 1992 on the back of Germany’s reunification sales bubble ..more |
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Hyundai/Kia - "India ace card" |
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PSA outlines vision - investors underwhelmed Peugeot’s Varin outlines vision |
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Questions about Euro bias, Faurecia issue remains unanswered - Short-term profitability improves, but concerns mount about 2010 ...more |
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Fiat/Chrysler - "Adroit ringmaster" Marchionne plan for Chrysler seen as too ambitious, but never say never |
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ISSUE 0920
Published - 03 November
2009 |
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WORLD -
Noose round autoindustry’s neck is loosening A mood of uncertainty persists - lasting directional change or a mere blip? |
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WESTERN
EUROPE
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Supplement++ |
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9 months 2009 v 9 months
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"Platform Sharing" - Toyota SAI Hybrid "Higher profit Prius" - presumably built on Prius platform |
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China’s car market now in a
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"Prius heads sales chart" |
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"Getting
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Korea/EU - "No level playing field" EU and Korea car sales clash - ACEA cries foul - Hyundai-Kia report spectacular profits |
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PSA - "Still in the red" PSA loses more in 3rd quarter as rivals return to profit |
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ISSUE 0919
Published - 15 October
2009 |
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WESTERN EUROPE -
Too early to trumpet all clear September’s healthy gain overshadowed by fears that recovery may slip into reverse |
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‘There’s a lot at stake’ Opel’s new Astra For ‘New Opel’ new Astra cannot be allowed to fail |
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RUSSIA
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Heat turns to chill Russia’s car market fails to pull out of fatal tailspin - Avtovaz on life-support |
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Frost gripped truck market Global truck sales data says recovery talk is premature |
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Car sales recovery "Mirage" |
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Hardnosed market watchers concede that latest numbers couldn’t fail but produce a climate of cautious optimism among Europe’s battered car industry that finally the worst was over...more |
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UNITED
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Honda
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MARKET VIEW
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Fiat/Chrysler - "Roller Coaster Views" Investors take 2nd look at Fiat - Chrysler & see possibilities |
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Morgan Stanley reckons US recovery will boost Chrysler, but lack of new Chrysler product could inhibit progress - Will management concentration in US hamper Fiat? ...more |
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EUROPE
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BlueEFFICIENCY Mercedes Sprinter van Mercedes’ Sprinter van range with fuel-sipper BlueEFFICIENCY technology |
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MARKET VIEW
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Cold J.D Power Shower Despite recent surge, Europe’s 2010 car sales set to dive |
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ISSUE 0918
Published - 02 October
2009 |
| € |
WESTERN EUROPE -
Pre-crisis car sales still more than five years away Genuine car sales recovery in Europe now appears further afield than feared |
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Japanese
car production by manufacturer and sector Aug '09
v Aug '08 Japanese car production by manufacturer and sector 8-Mths '09 v 8-Mths '08 |
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UK
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goal? - VW’s new Polo VW’s Polo finally comes of age, Good looker - More muscular and more dynamic |
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| € | JAPAN - Toyota’s home output down 44.1% so far | |
| As barometers of pain go, Toyota’s regular update on global vehicle production and sales - this time for the month of August - provides an all too telling reading of the company’s current suffering ...more | ||
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WESTERN EUROPE
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"Pay-back Time" Cheerleaders for quick recovery appear blind to harsh reality |
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FRANCE
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Kiss of life |
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Across the French market both carmakers and dealers were enjoying the fruits of the government’s car scrappage scheme, which clearly kept cheque-ready buyers flocking to showrooms...more |
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STOCK
MARKET VIEW
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Daimler
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EUROPE
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Frankfurt - "Smoke & Mirrors" Frankfurt show hype will soon succumb to market reality |
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Crisis? What crisis? One million fewer German sales might qualify - Renault battery gamble likely to stumble over cost, practicalities - Huge Electric, CO2 investment means only the strongest survive ...more |
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STOCK
MARKET VIEW
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Ghosn - "Electric Pipedream?" Nissan’s Ghosn said by 2020 10% of global market for cars will be electric |
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| € | FRANCE - Dacia’s meteoric French climb | |
| By any stretch of the imagination, Renault’s Romanian Dacia offshoot has probably recorded the fastest growth of any newcomer to the French car market since it first opened for French business in 2005 ...more | ||