American manufacturers could once again be grey mine in the alleys of the "Detroit Motor Show", which opens Sunday to professionals, in the economic capital of a Michigan in crisis. Their internal market comes from its worst year since 1998 with sales declined by 2.5 to 16.5 million units, and the year 2007 promises little more easy: according to the UBS analyst, procurement may fall to 15.9 million and will remain at best to 16.5 million units, prognostic JP Morgan. But, bonus in this declining market, US manufacturers are well forced to see that they are virtually the only ones to suffer and that therefore they will be probably soon more masters home.
If, on the year, General Motors (GM), Ford and Chrysler still controlling 53.7 of the first automobile market in the world, the month of December alone the "big three" have seen their combined share fall to a historic low point of 51.5! Dinosaurs of Michigan have thus give 10 points of market share in five years. The year 2007 is going so bad and they may fall as early as the year next under the symbolic bar of 50!
Fragile by their industrial and financial worries, and affected by a change in the corresponding request in lines back in 2006 by 11 of the sales of "pick-up", 10 of minivans and 12 of the 4 4 (SUV), while at the same time sales of small cars were 5 , American manufacturers seem to be powerless against the inexorable rise in power of Asian manufacturers approaching the bar of the 40 of market share. In particular, Toyota whose annual sales jumped again from 12.5 in 2006.
Toyota future number one
In a year, the Japanese saw its market share of 13.3 to 15.4. The constructor, which could take away this year at GM as world number one in the sector, became in 2006 the number three on the U.S. market, before Chrysler, whose market share fell from 13.6 to 12.9. And the Japanese will not stop in so good way. In the United States, "Ford has certainly finished December before Toyota in market share, but Toyota should go permanently to the first quarter of 2007", writes Mark Altherr, of Credit Switzerland.
Four of the first five sedans sold in America are Japanese and the first two of them leave plants Toyota, which also dominates the segment of luxury with Lexus cars. Its continuing progress for eleven years should it require the constructor, just open a plant in Texas and soon other sites open to the Canada and the Mexico, to think now to the construction of a plant of additional Assembly in the United States as early as 2009. However, US manufacturers are not only to display an underperformance in 2006. GM sales fell 8.7, those of Ford of 8 and those of DaimlerChrysler of 5.5 (despite the increase of 10 of Mercedes), but Nissan, penalized by a lack of new models, drop him also of 5.3 for the first time in five years and the ambitious Hyundai, which opened its first plant in the United States last year, only the do-nothing.
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