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The UK is, unsurprisingly, expected to bear the brunt of the impact of its vote to leave the European Union. We currently expect that the

The Swedish new car market is on fire with February celebrating the market’s 26th consecutive month of growth and 2016 already looking set to beat

How do you communicate the theme of growth? That was personified by what the OEMs showed at Geneva in March. The first was by expanding

Incremental volume growth in the US and Europe is forecast to be solid but less spectacular, while on the other side of the balance sheet,

The European True Fleet Markets are currently performing very well. Looking at 17 countries in Europe, the results for the first nine months of 2015

The global asset and auto finance sector has been through turbulent times since the Great Recession, and the foundations for its recovery have looked fragile

Simon Oliphant must sometimes wonder whether his business card is big enough given the number of posts he occupies after a series of management changes

  “Okay FCA, just stop!” was how General Motors (GM) rebuffed Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) on a possible GM-FCA merger. FCA has lately been punching above

This further pulled up the year-to-date (YTD) increase for the first eight months of the year by 8.5% y/y to 10.07 million units. Following August's

Australia’s historical ties with the UK show in that Australians drive on the left. Similarly all road signs are in English. Main routes are wide

The 2015 Australian new car market is running in parallel with 2014. Sales to the end of May totalled 452,577, compared with 441,642 for the

  Operational leasing always makes sense when compared with the outright purchase of cars because it means you get to keep your money in your

Fuel and driver taxes I don’t think we will see any drastic change. Remember that while the cost of a barrel of oil may be

The US auto market just closed its best year of sales since before the recession. With the recovery seemingly out of the way, and consumers

The French new car market remained static in 2014 with sales at 1.79m, just below the 1.8m mark for the second year running. Short-term rental

Despite a market share below their international level, French car makers (PSA Peugeot Citroën and the Renault-Nissan Alliance) have improved their performance strongly in the

As organisations look to improve the efficiency of their workforces and vehicles, the challenge is on for the vehicle leasing industry to widen its scope

Replacing two iconic designs Replacing any iconic vehicle is never an easy prospect for any designer. Whether it’s an exotic rare car or a much

  There is a lot of talk about "Big Data" in business at the moment, it’s a buzz word concerned with the explosion in information

The event opens to the press on 2nd October, with a wide range of automakers and component suppliers set to exhibit, with domestic automakers set

In a recent article in North America’s Automotive Fleet magazine, “Procurement Ascendency” topped the list of global fleet mega-trends. The once-feared, but ultimately beneficial, transition

With sales of locally‐made Light Vehicles in July growing by 7.4% year‐on‐year (YoY) – slightly in excess of the 7.2% YoY growth achieved in June

Would I drive an electric vehicle? That was the question that kept me busy for a number of months. Me being Bart Vanham, entrepreneur in

The European Car industry is still under severe strain. Because of the so called policy of austerity, which is predominantly driven by Germany and a

So far this year, Russia has managed to annex Crimea and apply considerable influence with rebels in eastern Ukraine without too much damage being inflicted

So it’s official: those long talked-about green shoots of recovery are finally growing. The UK economy is coming out of recession, and doing so not

Throughout the period when I was setting-up and running Contract Hire companies, both in the UK and Europe, the Holy Grail I was always searching

Take the motor shows in Geneva, New York and Shanghai – at each of them lots of novelties have been presented. Between the really new

E-vehicles? Do you remember the hype? International motor shows in Frankfurt, Detroit, Paris, and Tokyo… you name it! Everywhere we went: e-mobility all over the

One current challenge is to agree what is economic growth. On the one hand it may be an improvement in GDP; or a growth in