Tough times ahead for global car industry -Audi chief

•  He expects China’s auto market to grow at over 8 % and luxury at over 20 %
•   Audi is the market leader among luxury segment in China
• US sells over 2 million luxury cars – BMW & Mercedes are the top selling models
• He plans to make Audi no.1, world-wide, by 2015.

Tough times ahead for auto manufacturers, but interesting time for car buyer… Let us hope, while chasing the numbers, all auto mfrers do not overlook the safety and environment responsibilities

Toyota 's plans for 2012

According to reports, Toyota likely to increase production targets to 8.65 million vehicles in 2012.

The previous record was 8.53 million in 2007.

This is expected to be over 20% above current year, when production was severely hampered by earthquake, tsunami in Japan and the floods in Thailand.

Let us hope 2012 will be a disaster free year !

Ford Middle East

Nothing much to share.... Hence sharing this link of Ford - ME

Ford is making the right moves, with their new launches like Ford Explorer, already making the right vibes and they are making the right push for smaller cars, Figo/Focus etc

Among the big manufacturers, they seem on a strong ground to forge ahead in 2012...

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