Global prestige car sales growth comes off the boil

PREMIUM BRANDS
Boil to simmer - World prestige car sales
Global prestige car sales growth comes off the boil

Published: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:55:19 GMT
Tweet

World prestige passenger car sales trends by selected region October 2014

Growth in underlying global prestige car deliveries, compared with the same period last year, slowed during this year’s third quarter, adding to fears that the long witnessed surge in the worldwide demand for the high-status cars made chiefly by Germany’s BMW, Audi and Mercedes, is losing momentum. That’s the message from latest global prestige car deliveries monitored exclusively by AID every month

Global prestige sector car deliveries in September, comprising figures from BMW, Audi, Mercedes, Jaguar Land Rover and Porsche, still grew by an outwardly healthy looking 8 per cent, following respective gains of 9.1 and 7.1 per cent during July and August.

+9.5%
October sees better than expected 9.5 per cent jump, can it last?

While nothing to get even remotely worried about at this stage, these figures say nonetheless that the dynamism still seen during the same period last year has given way to a markedly less vigorous rate of advance.

Chiefly, the single digit gains seen during these past four months directly compare to faster like-for-like double digit gains during the same four-months period last year...more

MORE LIKE THIS:

> All about the right product - Porsche 06 Oct 2014

> Jaguar finally up to scratch 24 Jul 2014

> Soon half the Porsches sold will be trendy SUV-Crossovers 21 Jul 2014

DATA AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS WITH THIS ARTICLE:
SELECTED WORLD PRESTIGE new CAR sales:
by manufacturer and marque
OCTOBER 2014 v OCTOBER2013
10-Months 2014 V 10-MONTHS 2013

CHINA SELECTED PRESTIGE new CAR sales:
by manufacturer and marque
OCTOBER 2014 v OCTOBER 2013
10-Months 2014 V 10-MONTHS 2013

US SELECTED PRESTIGE new CAR sales:
by manufacturer and marque
OCTOBER 2014 v OCTOBER 2013
10-Months 2014 V 10-MONTHS 2013

To continue reading this article, please register for a free sample without obligation...

Please note that eagleAID.com is a subscriber-only site, and as such it can only be viewed by subscribers to the newsletter.

+9.5% October sees better than expected 9.5 per cent jump, can it last?

+9.5%
October sees better than expected 9.5 per cent jump, can it last?