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WESTERN EUROPE AID EXCLUSIVE |
 June sees 22nd successive car sales
gain in a row
After the unexpectedly firm start to this year’s West European car sales season and just a momentary pause for breath in May, when underlying car recovery growth slowed notably to just 0.2 per cent, last month the market seems to have regained its stride with June sales growing at the fastest pace since September 2013
> West Europe’s May car sales grow at slowest pace in 18 months
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WESTERN EUROPE EXCLUSIVE FOR AID NEWSLETTER READERS |
 Škoda’s first million - Spotlight on one of Europe’s biggest gainersFrom caterpillar to butterfly - Škoda stands out as one of the few all-round success stories in Europe’s cut-throat mass car market. Whichever way true and sustainable commercial success in today’s car world is measured, Volkswagen’s Škoda brand stands out as an outstanding winner on all counts.
> Hard-pressed PSA remains mere shadow of its former self
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NETHERLANDS AID EXCLUSIVE |
 Plug-ins capture 6.4% of Netherlands’ May car sales
In Europe’s largely bleak looking PHEV
(Plug-in Hybrid) landscape, latest signs are that the Netherlands is showing some promise of
becoming a regional hot spot for PHEVs, thus emulating to an extent the closely watched role
now played by Norway as the unquestioned King player in the global market for pure
electric cars
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WESTERN EUROPE EXCLUSIVE FOR AID NEWSLETTER READERS |
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In every
edition AID now pays close attention to the European failures and successes of one particular carmaker – this time it’s Honda’s
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Good news is that May saw the 21st successive rise in West European car sales. The not-so-good news is that last month the market barely grew at all. AID’s non rose-tinted view is that May’s abrupt slowing in the market’s rate of advance to a mere
0.9 per cent could easily be attributable to two fewer working days in the month than in May last year
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Good news is that May saw the 21st successive rise in West European car sales. The not-so-good news is that last month the market barely grew at all. AID’s non rose-tinted view is that May’s abrupt slowing in the market’s rate of advance to a mere
0.9 per cent could easily be attributable to two fewer working days in the month than in May last year
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WESTERN EUROPE EXCLUSIVE FOR AID NEWSLETTER READERS |
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Characterised by a continuing erosion in market
share and awash in red ink, in Western Europe things have not quite gone the Ford way
in the past few years, or for that matter the past couple of decades. During the whole of last year, with
its car market share skidding to a new record low of just 7.3 per cent, Ford of Europe posted a
pre-tax loss of $1.06bn followed by a pre-tax loss of $185m during this year’s first quarter.
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Spanish patient finally responds to treatment,
but it will be some time yet before the convalescing patient will again walk
totally unaided.
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The good news for PSA
Peugeot-Citroën’s newly arrived bigwigs is that in terms of financial health PSA has been wheeled out of
intensive care, thanks in large measure to vital cash injections from both Dongfeng and the
French government. The not so good news is that PSA is still struggling to get decent prices
for its cars, thereby limiting its endeavours to
make some decent returns on the now closely watched profitability side of its business
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This April, combined sales of Renault and Dacia rose notably faster than the already fast recovering overall car market. In a clear break with recent sales patterns, it is not the Dacia budget brand that set the fastest pace, but the Renault brand. Renault’s West European April sales, kept in the fast lane by high ongoing demand for its remarkably well received Captur Crossover, rose 15.8 per
cent.
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Like Turin’s Juventus
F.C, which is back in the
Champions League final for the first time since 2003, Italy’s car market, after spending
half a dozen years out in the wilderness, is now also in the throes of making a well orchestrated
comeback
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Europeans, it seems, have not only retained their
passionate love-affair with latest SUV-Crossovers, which still stand out as the region’s hottest sector,
almost the same goes for consumers’ unwavering appetite for all-wheel
4x4 drive vehicles of all types
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 Europe’s unstoppable rise of
SUV-Crossovers
SUV-Crossovers of all sizes, including an avalanche of taller than average models based on otherwise cheap and cheerful small cars are still attracting much of the buying among European consumers who, it appears, are still pursuing today’s trendy taste for the outdoor lifestyle.
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Passenger Car SalesEurope’s car market remains on course for sunnier climes Figures compiled by AID show that West Europe’s car market has started to recover some of its kick. After growing firmly for the past twenty months, this April saw yet another
6.8 per cent rise, thus keeping the market on track for a markedly better than earlier expected full year turnout.
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The casual observer of West Europe’s comparatively lively car sales scene could be puzzled by the mixed signals being sent out by PSA. While Peugeot did well to keep its first quarter sales in line with the overall market, its newest baby, the Citroën-based DS brand, was left way behind in the dust. |
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WESTERN EUROPE AID EXCLUSIVE |
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WESTERN EUROPE AID EXCLUSIVE |
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West Europe's hybrid car market - Big mountain to climb| > | |
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Diesel still rules |
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Crossover sales feast - records just keep tumbling |
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Jaguar Land Rover profits surge
- Tata run aground |
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Two-pronged
Renault-Dacia assault French carmaker Renault, with a near 18 per cent car sales surge in May > Renault-Group and Peugeot make flying-start into West Europe’s 2014 car sales year |
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ITALY |
 Bounce back from the bottomItaly’s long-battered car market to rise at long last – gas in retreat > Life seen in French car market |
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UNITED KINGDOM |
 Britain’s car sales boom, can it last?UK’s car shopping spree sees 25 months of unbroken credit-fuelled growth > UK’s unwavering solo move to pre-crisis annual car sales levels |
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All-wheel-drive country| > |
FRANCE |
 Life seen in French car marketPeugeot, after sinking to an all-time home low in 2012, comes out fighting > Lame recovery replaces European slump; China worries mount |
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GERMANY |
 Germany back in driveStrengthening green shoots spotted in Germany’s recovering car market ● UK’s unwavering solo move to pre-crisis annual car sales levels |
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GERMANY |
 Audi takes pause for breathLike leading premium brand rivals, Audi has weathered recent economic storms with next to no damage ● Mercedes starts new year with a bang |
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WESTERN EUROPE |
 Opel-Vauxhall, this February, shows signs of turning the cornerGM’s European Opel-Vauxhall offshoot had been written off as a basket case ● SEAT’s Cava has regained its sparkle |
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SWITZERLAND |
 Europe’s 4WD capitalBy historical Swiss standards, 2013 was a good car sales year ● In Europe manuals rule, but steady inroads from more fuel-efficient automatics |
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WESTERN EUROPE |
 What European Auto Crisis?‘Made in Germany’ - German production lines kept humming ● German-made cars rule Britain’s roads |
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Stick change still dominates| > |
WESTERN EUROPE |
Europe’s November’s car salesNovember’s new car sales in Western Europe barely grew at all |
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WESTERN EUROPE |
 Incentives blur true competitive picture Hyundai, like Volkswagen, appears to have cut back incentive spending |
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WESTERN EUROPE |
 Car market takes right turnW-Europe’s car market finally moves out of intensive care |
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WESTERN EUROPE |
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September car sales rise 5.5% |
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Gloves
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Car market teeters between recovery and relapse |
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Good July car sales – despair turns to hope |
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W-Europe's June car sales down just 6.2% |
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WESTERN EUROPE |
 German
salvo at EU’s 2020 CO2 car
emission plansFavourable Supercredit deal expected to put kick into Europe’s electric car market |
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