Thursday, December 21, 2006

No news

To read this: Toyota said to overtake Ford in January 2007; it is like to say this: in 2007, USA will not leave Iraq.
And Ford will be third in cars, in USA. Because, globally, Ford is now third.
The picture for America's automakers are not good, even in USA:
  • GM enjoyed 28% market share in 2001. Today they have 24%.
  • Ford had 21% in 2001. Today they have 15%.
  • Daimler-Chrysler came from near 15% market share to a 13% level, now.

Probably, Asians do it better!