NEWS

Renault up but EU down

RENAULT is the big winner in European car sales, but the market overall is down by more than 8 percent. JATO Dynamics blames poor sales in Germany, which means the year-to-date EU market improvement has fallen to below 3 percent. The UK market was up, though, and Spain offered encouragement by bucking the recession in [...]

	No spring break for firms
EUROPEAN car sales fell 6.7 percent in April as scrappage schemes ended across many nations. Germany’s scrappage scheme ended a while back – Italy’s now has too, meaning both markets have actually started falling. After its recent success, JATO Dynamics says it is Ford that’s been hit. Sales of the blue oval have not only [...]

	New car CO2 plunge
NEW car CO2 emissions are falling faster than ever before reveals JATO in a new European report. They have fallen by nearly 20g/km since 2003, and 2009 was the single biggest yearly reduction on record. The average new car sold in Europe now emits 145.9g/km CO2. This means brands are well on target to meet [...]

	Ford Fiesta top in EU
FORD’S Fiesta continues its market leading sales position by becoming Europe’s best-seller, too! March sales saw it take the slot from the Volkswagen Golf by a hefty 11,785 units. It’s also thus now ahead in the year-to-date sales, too – 140,496, compared to the Golf’s 135,048. This performance was aided by a near-26 percent jump [...]

	Scrappage hangover
SCRAPPAGE incentives drawing to a close could put the car market recovery at risk reports JATO Dynamics. The intelligence firm points to the German car market as evidence of this. Since the end of scrappage scheme, German sales are down 29.8 percent – and the market has AGAIN been outsold by Italy… … which still [...]

		Big sellers behind EU rise
		VOLKSWAGEN, Ford, Fiat and Renault are the makers behind a big European recovery in new car sales. The market rose 7.5 percent in September 2009, with massive sellers such as the Volkswagen Golf, Ford Fiesta, Fiat Grande Punto and Renault Megane leading the charge. They alone saw sales rise by 50 percent over September 2008! [...]
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		Smaller car trend
		CAR buyers are choosing smaller cars, due to economic and environmental pressures, plus scrappage incentives. JATO Consult has clear evidence of the trend, following an extensive study into the market. Car manufacturers are responding to such downsizing by offering higher-specification models, in order to retain profit margins for car dealers. Buyers switching from larger models [...]
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		Car market recovery?
		EUROPEAN new car sales figures for May have been released – and show tentative signs of recovery. While the new car market is down 13.1 percent year-to-date, this is a 2.4 percent improvement on declines the previous month. It is scrappage that is being thanked for this. Germany was up nearly 40 percent in May [...]
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		Fiesta tops EU pile!
		FORD’S Fiesta has just taken the overall European sales number one slot from the Volkswagen Golf. A massive March sales increase of over 15 per cent has seen the Ford supermini conquer in an otherwise depressed market. First quarter European sales are down by 16.9 percent, reports JATO Dynamics, as the recession bites further into [...]
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