According to the statistics released by the Turkish Automotive Distributors Association (ODD), in 2012 the domestic passenger car and light vehicle market shrank by 10 percent compared to 2011, with sales declining to 777,761 units. In ...
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The United Kingdom has posted its highest full year new car sales result since 2007, with 2,044,699 registrations recorded in 2012. That promising figure shows a 5.3 per cent rise year on year, pushing the market past two million units ...
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US-based automaker Ford has registered a 6%increase in sales to 281,917 vehicles in 2012 in the UK market compared to 265,894 units sold in 2011. The company's commercial vehicle(CV)segemnt acquired a 21.6%share of the sales,whereas ...
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General Motors(GM)US has registered sales of 245,733 vehicles in December 2012,a 5%increase over to the same period in 2011. The company has seen an increase of 38%in its retail sales in December 2012 compared to November 2012 that added ...
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The US new vehicle market rose to 14.5 million units in 2012 on the back of rising demand for mid-sized and small cars in a nation famous for its ‘bigger is better’ buying philosophy. The 2012 result – which saw ...
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According to the Japanese Ministry of Trade (METI), Japanese demand for crude steel in the first quarter of 2013 is expected to rise by 0.2 percent from the previous quarter (Q4 2012) to 26.07 million mt, with an expected decline of 1.9 ...
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PTI reported that Toyota Kirloskar Motor has 24.31% decrease in its car sales at 12,071 units in December 2012. Toyota Kirloskar Motor in a statement said that the company had sold 15,948 units in the corresponding month previous year. ...
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Indonesian state steelmaker Krakatau Steel on Wednesday signed a joint venture agreement with Japanese company Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation to build a steel plant that will supply the domestic automotive industry. The joint ...
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The 2012 Australian new car sales figures in total are listed below with a segment breakdown following. 2012 Light Car Segment Winners: Toyota Yaris (18,808 – 13.9%) Mazda2 (17,574 – 13%) Hyundai i20 (13,339 – ...
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The Australian large car segment continued its decline in 2012 with sales of large cars under $70,000 down by 20.4 percent compared to 2011, which it self was down significantly on 2010. The Holden Commodore ended 2012 with 30,532 ...
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The light or city car segment had a modest sales increase of 3.9 percent overall in 2012 compared to 2011 with sales remaining relatively consistent across the field. For light cars under $25,000, the Holden Barina (up 50.5 percent to ...
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Business Standard reported that tepid sales, despite record discounts and introduction of new models, continued to remain a concern for most manufacturers in the domestic automobile industry with seven of the country’s major ...
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Nissan Australia sold a record number of new vehicles in 2012 on the back of aggressive marketing and financing campaigns that produced strong SUV and ute sales. Nissan sold 79,787 new cars, SUVs and light commercial vehicles across the ...
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The Audi Q5 retained its title of Australia’s most popular luxury SUV but it was another narrow margin of victory. Audi’s mid-sized SUV grew only 1 per cent year on year to 2830 sales but it was sufficient to thwart the ...
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Sales of medium cars surged beyond those of large cars in Australia for the first time in 2012,with the locally produced Toyota Camry leading the charge. After coming up just short of the large-car segment in 2011(75,984 versus ...
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