Pub date: 24 Feb 2012 Africa / Algeria Autos Industry Report
Figures released by the Association des Concessionaires Automobiles d'Algerie (ACAA) in January 2012 show that 280,803 new cars were sold in Algeria in 2011 (excluding sales figures from the local BM... Read More
Pub date: 11 May 2012 Africa / Angola Autos Industry Report
The end of the second phase of the Vehicle Restitution Programme in December 2011 has dampened BMI's optimism towards new vehicle sales in Angola in 2012 and prompted us to slightly revise down our ... Read More
Pub date: 16 Mar 2012 Latin America / Argentina Autos Industry Report
The deteriorating regulatory environment in Argentina and the tightening of import restrictions by Brazil have prompted BMI to revise down its 2012 production growth forecast to a cautious 7.1% year-... Read More
Pub date: 04 Apr 2012 Asia / Australia Autos Industry Report
Australian new vehicle sales for 2011 stood at a total of 1,008,437 units, down by 2.6% year on year (y-oy), according to data released by Australia's Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI),... Read More
Pub date: 12 Apr 2012 Middle East / Bahrain Autos Industry Report
The political situation in Bahrain appears to be becoming the dominant factor in any reading of the country. A determined uprising, in part inspired by the Arab Spring, but also by a degree of Shi'a/... Read More
Pub date: 11 May 2012 Latin America / Brazil Autos Industry Report
Early indications would suggest that 2012 will be a difficult year for the Brazilian auto sector, as a combination of higher auto import taxes and revised regulations combine to depress demand. New ... Read More
Pub date: 16 Mar 2012 Europe / Bulgaria Autos Industry Report
BMI foresees new auto sales of 24,037 in Bulgaria over the course of 2012, which will represent yearly growth of 3.83%. However, this is unlikely to be totally filled with domestic produce. It seems ... Read More
Pub date: 30 Mar 2012 North America / Canada Autos Industry Report
BMI's forecast for passenger car sales to end 2011 down by around 2%, largely owing to supply issues for Japanese brands, played out, as did our decision to raise our forecast for light CVs given the... Read More
Pub date: 09 Dec 2011 Latin America / Chile Autos Industry Report
BMI has adjusted its five-year forecast for new car sales in Chile to reflect the recovery in consumer and business demand in the wake of the global financial crisis that coincided with the reconstru... Read More
Pub date: 02 Mar 2012 Asia / China Autos Industry Report
As expected, growth in China's total vehicle sales was much lower in 2011 than the 32% year-on-year (y-o-y) recorded in 2010. Sales rose just 2.6% to 18.5mn units, slightly surpassing BMI's expectat... Read More
Pub date: 03 Feb 2012 Latin America / Colombia Autos Industry Report
BMI remains highly optimistic about the growth potential of the Colombian autos industry, from the point of view of demand as well as production. New vehicle sales in Colombia are set to reach record... Read More
Pub date: 10 Jan 2012 Europe / Croatia Autos Industry Report
Croatia’s new vehicle sales market has witnessed something of a rebirth in 2011, after two consecutive years of heavy decline. Indeed, after plunging 53.1% year-on-year (y-o-y) in 2009 to fewer than ... Read More
Pub date: 26 Mar 2012 Europe / Czech Republic Autos Industry Report
With passenger car sales in the first seven months of this year reaching 100,402 units, down 0.01% from the same period last year, BMI has lowered its forecast for passenger car sales growth from 2.8... Read More
Pub date: 14 Mar 2012 Africa / Uganda Autos Industry Report
Kenya Data from the Kenya Motor Industry Association (KMI) show that while the total new vehicle market grew 10% year-on-year (y-o-y) in 2011, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami had the biggest imp... Read More
Pub date: 25 Apr 2012 Africa / Egypt Autos Industry Report
Egypt's autos industry remains in the doldrums, with demand for new vehicles remaining depressed owing to a combination of economic and political strife. Sales fell during the revolution that saw fo... Read More
Pub date: 03 Feb 2012 Europe / Estonia Autos Industry Report
New passenger car sales in Estonia grew a robust 92.0% y-o-y to 19,766 units during 2011 on the back of stellar real GDP growth, estimated at 8.0% during the year. Although the growth makes Estonia a... Read More
Pub date: 16 Mar 2012 Europe / France Autos Industry Report
Cumulative new passenger car sales in France just about managed to remain in positive growth territory during the first ten months of 2011, growing 0.4% on a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis to 1.84mn unit... Read More
Pub date: 02 Mar 2012 Europe / Germany Autos Industry Report
The German autos industry outperformed the overall eurozone in 2011, both in terms of vehicle sales and production. New vehicle sales in Germany exceeded 3.5mn units during 2011, helped by 8.8% year... Read More
Pub date: 11 May 2012 Africa / Ghana Autos Industry Report
The Ghana Automotives Report has been researched at source, and features latest-available data covering production, sales, imports and exports; company rankings and competitive landscapes for multinat... Read More
Pub date: 23 Mar 2012 Europe / Greece Autos Industry Report
The extent of pessimism in the Greek autos market is visible from the fact that car sales failed to pick up in 2011 despite four consecutive years of sharp contraction in new vehicle demand and the i... Read More
Pub date: 12 Apr 2012 Asia / Hong Kong Autos Industry Report
Hong Kong's autos market has experienced three years of sharp fluctuations in annual growth through 2011. While unit sales, unit imports and market value all contracted significantly in 2009, the ove... Read More
Pub date: 16 Mar 2012 Europe / Hungary Autos Industry Report
New car sales in Hungary ended 2011 up a modest 3.7% year-on-year (y-o-y), at nearly 44,925 units, falling closely in line with BMI's expectations of 3.4% y-o-y growth in the passenger car segment. T... Read More
Pub date: 02 Mar 2012 Asia / India Autos Industry Report
BMI's view on the outperformance of India's commercial vehicle segment relative the rest of the fourwheeled market is playing out, particularly in the light truck segment. Light commercial vehicle (... Read More
Pub date: 16 Mar 2012 Asia / Indonesia Autos Industry Report
The rapid growth in Indonesia's new vehicle sales may be positive for the major industry players, encouraging investment in local production from vehicle producers and parts suppliers alike, but for ... Read More
Pub date: 12 Apr 2012 Middle East / Iran Autos Industry Report
Given the hard-line stance of the regime, along with the West's unwillingness to use military force, we expect economic sanctions on Iran to remain in place. However, these sanctions have resulted in... Read More
Pub date: 03 Feb 2012 Middle East / Israel Autos Industry Report
2011 was a strong year for new car sales in Israel, in line with BMI’s expectations. Looking at January- November data (the most recent available), new vehicle sales stood at a total of 222,133, acco... Read More
Pub date: 30 Mar 2012 Europe / Italy Autos Industry Report
BMI believes that the collective labour agreement signed between Fiat and its 86,000 Italian work force in December 2011 - calling for increased shifts and shorter breaks in exchange for a EUR20bn i... Read More
Pub date: 17 Feb 2012 Asia / Japan Autos Industry Report
Following the country's natural disasters earlier in the year, new vehicle sales in Japan showed clear signs of recovery in the latter months of 2011, to end the year down 16% year-on-year (y-o-y), ... Read More
Pub date: 17 Jan 2012 Europe / Uzbekistan Autos Industry Report
Core Forecasts - Kazakhstan: Car sales will have ended 2011 beyond pre-crisis levels. Sales for the first 10 months of 2011 were more than double those of the previous year, at 28,167 units, which is... Read More
Pub date: 12 Apr 2012 Middle East / Kuwait Autos Industry Report
In 2011, a total of 100,100 passenger cars were sold in Kuwait, according to information from the General Directorate of Traffic cited by the Al Qabas newspaper in March 2012. This represented a 27.4... Read More
Pub date: 21 Nov 2011 Europe / Latvia Autos Industry Report
In 2010, 4,976 new cars were sold in Latvia, according to data from the Latvian Authorized Automobile Dealers Association (LAADA). This represented a 32.9% increase on the 3,745 new cars that were so... Read More
Pub date: 20 Dec 2011 Europe / Lithuania Autos Industry Report
In 2010, a total of 7,467 new passenger cars were sold in Lithuania, an increase of 2.2% year on year (yo- y), according to figures from state registration agency Regitra. This figure was very much i... Read More
Pub date: 09 Mar 2012 Asia / Malaysia Autos Industry Report
Total new vehicle sales for 2011 stood at 600,123 units, down by 0.8% year on year (y-o-y). This figure was made up of 535,113 passenger cars and 65,010 commercial vehicles. The final sales outcome ... Read More
Pub date: 24 Feb 2012 Latin America / Mexico Autos Industry Report
The stage is set for nearly 10% growth in total vehicle sales in 2011 and for just over 7% growth in 2012, limited by the sluggish US economy. For private consumption and vehicle sales to fully recov... Read More
Pub date: 30 Mar 2012 Africa / Morocco Autos Industry Report
With some reservations, 2012 looks likely to be a continuation in good trading for Morocco's auto industry, which has been enjoying steady growth from 2009. This is reliant on a scenario in which the... Read More
Pub date: 02 May 2012 Africa / Nigeria Autos Industry Report
BMI sees significant improvements in three significant areas of the Nigerian auto industry within the forecast period: vehicle production, vehicle imports and car ownership. To this end, we see: slig... Read More
Pub date: 09 Mar 2012 Asia / Pakistan Autos Industry Report
The Pakistani auto sector presented a mixed picture as we entered 2012. Looking at data for the first half of FY12 (July-December), new vehicle production was down by just over 15%, while new vehicle... Read More
Pub date: 03 Feb 2012 Latin America / Peru Autos Industry Report
Peru is showing signs of becoming one of the most promising auto growth markets in Latin America, thanks to impending regulations, free trade agreements with major markets and low vehicle ownership ... Read More
Pub date: 26 Apr 2012 Asia / Philippines Autos Industry Report
Calls for a supportive government policy towards vehicle and components production are gathering pace. In March 2012, the chief regional officer for Toyota Motor Asia Pacific, Takahiro Iwase, appeale... Read More
Pub date: 04 Apr 2012 Europe / Poland Autos Industry Report
BMI sees anaemic growth in the sales of new cars in Poland over the course of 2012, at 0.44%, bringing the total to 352,935. This is, however, notably better than the results of 2011, where we saw an... Read More
Pub date: 09 Mar 2012 Global / Middle East Autos Industry Report
There are no comprehensive and reliable vehicle sales and import statistics available for Qatar, which has only a very small car industry, owing to its low population (1.9mn in 2011). However, some l... Read More
Pub date: 20 Apr 2012 Europe / Romania Autos Industry Report
The Romanian auto industry is currently falling into a standard pattern for countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Namely, a very large domestic production capacity and limited domestic cons... Read More
Pub date: 02 Apr 2012 Europe / Russia Autos Industry Report
After two consecutive years of strong growth in 2010 and 2011, BMI believes that Russian new vehicles sales are poised for a moderate 2012. There are already signs of growing caution among Russian h... Read More
Pub date: 27 Apr 2012 Middle East / Saudi Arabia Autos Industry Report
Overall, growth over the course of 2011 was strong - running at around 6.99%, and bringing the total number of new vehicles sold to 688,883. This number is set to rise steadily, with BMI believing th... Read More
Pub date: 22 Mar 2012 Europe / Serbia Autos Industry Report
BMI has significantly revised down its Serbian vehicle sales growth forecasts, as we did last quarter, on the back of the latest industry figures, which suggest that new vehicle demand remains sluggi... Read More
Pub date: 13 Apr 2012 Asia / Singapore Autos Industry Report
Singapore's new vehicle registrations in 2011 fell 21% year-on-year (y-o-y) to 47,855 units. Sales were down in all vehicle categories except commercial vehicles, which BMI had forecast (see 'Commerc... Read More
Pub date: 16 Mar 2012 Europe / Slovakia Autos Industry Report
The remainder of 2012 may well be a challenge for the Slovakian auto industry - and this is largely dependent on economic developments outside of its control. BMI has downgraded its prediction for a... Read More
Pub date: 03 Feb 2012 Europe / Slovenia Autos Industry Report
Slovenian vehicle production stood at 221,207 units in 2011, according to figures released by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA). Virtually all of Slovenia’s vehicle output com... Read More
Pub date: 26 Apr 2012 Africa / South Africa Autos Industry Report
BMI is expecting significant growth in the South African auto industry over the rest of 2012. We see sales running around 19.9% growth, and within this, car sales operating at 23.57% growth - bringin... Read More
Pub date: 30 Mar 2012 Asia / South Korea Autos Industry Report
Although we expect the last two months of 2011 were an improvement on October for the domestic market, we have lowered our full-year forecast to growth of 0.8% year-on-year (y-o-y) at 1.477mn units. ... Read More
Pub date: 12 Mar 2012 Africa / Zimbabwe Autos Industry Report
Signs of significant slowdown in the key global autos markets in 2012 are beginning to emerge. Our core scenario envisages the US and Japan as a significant outperformers in the mature autos markets ... Read More
Pub date: 04 Apr 2012 Europe / Spain Autos Industry Report
Spain's macroeconomic backdrop has soured considerably in the past few months as a result of depressed economic activity and confidence across the eurozone, deteriorating domestic economic conditions... Read More
Pub date: 24 Feb 2012 Africa / Sudan Autos Industry Report
Despite the relatively high level of vehicle ownership in Sudan (data refers to pre-South Sudan secession), compared with its regional peers, the market for new vehicles is very small. The used car... Read More
Pub date: 26 Apr 2012 Asia / Taiwan Autos Industry Report
Taiwan has, due to its geographic position, political stance and population size, traditionally had both its import and export potentials defined by external factors. The remainder of 2012 does not l... Read More
Pub date: 04 Apr 2012 Asia / Thailand Autos Industry Report
BMI remains upbeat on the long-term outlook for Thailand's auto industry, despite the clear short-term damage that has been caused by the recent heavy flooding across the country, which closed severa... Read More
Pub date: 26 Apr 2012 Europe / Turkey Autos Industry Report
The Turkish Automotive Industry Association (OSD) reported an 8% drop in vehicle manufacturing in January 2012, when compared to the same month in the previous year. This led to overall vehicle prod... Read More
Pub date: 12 Apr 2012 Europe / Ukraine Autos Industry Report
BMI's research shows that vehicle demand in Ukraine will cool considerably in 2012 as consumers feel the inflationary pinch and become increasingly cautious about taking on fresh credit. Moreover, an... Read More
Pub date: 13 Apr 2012 Middle East / United Arab Emirates Autos Industry Report
While the last months of 2011 are reported to have resembled the days of 2008, and the depths of the global financial crisis, BMI foresees modest growth in the UAE auto market throughout the rest of ... Read More
Pub date: 27 Apr 2012 Europe / United Kingdom Autos Industry Report
Renewed optimism in the vehicles production segment in the UK could be making way for a gradual revival of the local supplier segment and the UK's automotive production hub status. Nissan Motor's com... Read More
Pub date: 20 Apr 2012 North America / United States Autos Industry Report
In line with BMI's view that pent-up demand and more fuel efficient vehicles on offer would enable the industry to better prepare for soaring fuel costs now than in 2008, total light vehicle sales we... Read More
Pub date: 02 Mar 2012 Latin America / Venezuela Autos Industry Report
The government's tightening grip on the local autos manufacturing and suppliers network has given BMI more reasons to be pessimistic about the recovery and future of the production segment in Venezue... Read More
Pub date: 11 May 2012 Asia / Vietnam Autos Industry Report
New vehicle sales in Vietnam fell by 2% year on year (y-o-y) over 2011 to reach 110,020 completely built units (CBUs). This figure was slightly below BMI's forecast of 118,824 CBUs and reflected both... Read More
Pub date: 12 Mar 2012 Africa / Ghana Autos Industry Report
BMI Highlights Its Favourite Opportunities In Sub-Saharan Africa Vehicle ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa is typically lower than the global average, and the region therefore offers plenty of opportu... Read More
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