Growing divide in global car production

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Growing divide in global car production
Europe still shivering in icy grip of economic downturn, but US is back on the road again
Published: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:41:46 GMT
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Striking differences in global car production fortunes were spotted last year, and the contrast between growth and contraction in the world’s various car production regions could barely be sharper.

Despite a mixed bag of fortunes, AID’s provisional set of figures suggests that growth in last year’s global car production reached just over 7 per cent, fuelled in the main by North America, where last year’s light vehicle output soared 17.4 per cent from a year earlier on the coattails of a double-digit expansion in last year’s US sales.

17.4%
Last year's North American light vehicle output expansion on the previous year

There was more help from Japan, where output rocketed ahead by almost a fifth.

But that compares to the low levels seen only the year before, when the earthquake in Japan and floods in Thailand caused unprecedented disruption to car production...more

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WORLD PROVISIONAL CAR PRODUCTION by MARKET & REGION:
WORLD new PASSENGER car PRODUCTION: by MARKET & REGION 2012 VS 2011

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