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EMERGING MARKETS ANALYSIS: Charging toward a Better Place (MEM)
Rapidly rising oil prices have brought battery-electric power back into play as an alternative to gasoline. Is Project Better Place the breakthrough programme that allows EVs to flourish at last? Carlos Ghosn seems to think so. Mark Bursa investigates
THE WEEK THAT WAS: GM's US labour disputes rumble on...
It's been difficult of late for General Motors on the North American industrial relations front.
CANADA: GM and Chrysler workers to vote on CAW deal (REG)
About 24,000 General Motors and Chrysler workers in Canada will be voting today (16 May) and tomorrow to ratify the new labour agreements tentatively agreed yesterday between their employers and the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union to replace contracts expiring next September.
- THAILAND: Continental plans EUR100m expansion (REG)Continental , the German automotive equipment manufacturer, plans to invest EUR100m in its first manufacturing facility in Thailand, creating around 1,000 jobs.
- US: Nissan lowers fiscal forecast (REG)Nissan Motor has lowered its sales forecast for the US market from 15.5m vehicles to 15.2m for its current fiscal year, which began on 1 April .
- UK: BMW sells-out new X6 BMW UK expects to sell 2,300 of its new X6 'sports activity coupes' in a full year - and it's already a sell-out.
- SOUTH AFRICA: Chery launches in RSA (REG)Chinese carmaker Chery has started sales in South Africa. It has just launched a number of models onto the market, including the Chery QQ3.
- FRANCE: Russia is Nissan's top European market (REG)Russia became the biggest European market for Nissan in Nissan's 2007/08 financial year, which ended in March.
- GERMANY: Ford Europe April sales rise 8% Ford of Europe sales in the 'Euro 19' countries rose 6.4% year on year to 129,500 units, for a market share of 8.1%. When sales in Russia, Turkey and the 30 Ford European direct markets are totalled, April sales rose 8% to 161,140 units, the automaker said.
- UK: Lotus acquires Holden Lightweight Structures Group Lotus has announced the creation of Lotus Lightweight Structures, following the acquisition of privately held Holden Lightweight Structures Limited (formerly part of Hydro Aluminium) today.
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GOLDING’S TAKE: The Nissan fox has Ghosn green (MEM)
He’s a cunning old fox that Carlos Ghosn. We were all so looking forward to him getting stuck in a hole of his own making by failing to hit his own earnings forecasts.
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ASEAN automotive market review
Despite political turmoil in its biggest market and the threat of a global recession, sales in the ASEAN trading bloc showed strong growth in 2007, and forecasts in this briefing suggest that combined vehicle sales in ASEAN’s top three markets could be expected to reach 1.71m units in 2008. In this month’s briefing we profile five of these countries, namely Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, The Philippines and Vietnam. We investigate their market dynamics, main manufacturer activity and vehicle sales.
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