China has passed Germany to become the third-largest auto market in the world, after the U.S. and Japan.
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The auto market is second to Russia in Europe and is seen surpassing that by 2014.
In 2009 for instance, China overtook the U.S. as the single largest auto market.
The New Beetle makes its debut in an auto market that has accelerated lately.
Strength in the auto market, meanwhile, gives the company confidence in its financial picture.
The U.S. auto market, long seen as a dud in the sector, is rebounding here and globally.
At first glance, this seems little more than a function of China becoming the world's largest auto market.
Back when GM controlled half of the U.S. auto market, its huge dealer network was a competitive advantage.
With the auto market continuing to do well, we expect further growth in the ad market in 2013.
The auto market is rebounding in the U.S., but investors have still not piled into the auto stocks.
Luckily, BYD got into the auto market just before the door slammed shut.
More troubling, the conversion of Detroit from an indirect to transparent Washington client continues to distort the auto market.
But two years ago the Solntsevo gang began to muscle in on the Chechens' control of the Moscow auto market.
In the next decade Toyota wants to expand its share of the global auto market by nearly half, to 15%.
The government's struggle to curb industrial emissions comes as China has emerged as the largest auto market for new vehicles.
India is the sixth largest auto market in the world with production expected to reach 4.3 million units in 2012.
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The stock has gained more than 25% since its last earnings were announced on the strength of the U.S. auto market.
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Normalized demand in the US auto market is a couple of million units below current sales so I like these odds.
There are plenty of concerns around the world that the auto market may be peaking, as I wrote for Forbes recently.
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The current growth of Chinese auto market will be stymied in 2011, due largely to the removal of subsidies on small-engine cars.
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Low car ownership combined with rising disposable incomes bode well for the auto market demand in these countries in the long term.
In the vast and booming Chinese auto market now dominated by foreigners, a small Chinese company called BYD Auto is barely noticeable.
In 2009 as the auto market was diving globally, Goodyear withdrew the job-cut plan and shortly afterward began negotiations with Quincy, Ill.
Together, these states make up a third of the US auto market.
That enabled GM to partake of the cyclically growing U.S. auto market in 2010 and turn a profit through the first three quarters.
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Brazil is the fourth largest auto market in the world and success in this country would imply a significant upside for the automaker.
The "conversation" between the Russian and the Chechen gangsters over the Moscow auto market took place outside a Logovaz showroom, near the Kazakhstan Cinema.
It allowed Toyoda to reshape Toyota for the new reality of the global auto market, pushing down responsibility to leaders in its various regions.
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