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 When it comes to a car’s transmission, manuals seem so yesterday. That’s the first off impression from AID’s exclusively compiled car production figures for last year, showing that the near two decade long drive to two-pedal cars has continued to accelerate. On the face of it, last year saw the setting of yet another milestone. That’s in the sense that more cars than ever rolled off Europe’s assembly lines with an automatic transmission, continuing a trend that began to gather momentum with the millennium change in 2000. Cars built with an automatic transmission now account for a highest-ever share of European car production There are three broad trends sweeping West Europe’s car markets: one is the rise and rise in the popularity of SUV-Crossovers, which, regardless of the region’s still lingering car sales famine, have continued to win sales at the expense of other sectors. Another is the unstoppable drive towards lower consumption cars. That’s highlighted on the one hand by the realisation that more than half the new cars sold in Western Europe today are still equipped with a diesel engine...more MORE LIKE THIS: Europe’s November car motor dogged by renewed misfire 17 Dec 2013 Better October car sales lift gloom, 3rd rise in four months 19 Nov 2013 W-Europe’s car market finally moves out of intensive care 19 Nov 2013 |
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