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.
ANE Congress 2008
16th May 2008 16:05
I'm attending Automotive News Europe's Congress in Turin next week. I go every year and it's a useful occasion to get up to speed on some topical issues, hear some good speakers and meet up with pe...
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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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.
Where to find out about 2009 model year cars and light trucks
Production Life Database is your one-stop, instant-access source for all current and future global vehicle programmes. It is constantly updated, with data checked, new vehicles added, out-of-production models moved to the historic section and links between future car, crossover and light truck development programmes made in the textual analysis section.
Months ahead of the introduction of such cars and trucks, data for vehicles due to be launched or updated for North America's 2009 model year is being added to PLDB right now, for example.
PLDB lists 1958 current and future global models from 141 OEM groups, spread across 215 brands, with data for 157 vehicles having been checked or revised in the last month. Simply click on the link below to take a tour and see pricing.