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LCV
SALES | EUROPE
Vans outperform both cars and trucks this first half
The market for light commercial vehicles up to 3.50t GVW, typified in broad brush terms by Renault’s Kangoo on one end of the weight scale and Ford’s Transit box van on the other, still stands out as the best performing sector in this year’s West Europe’s vehicle market
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TRUCK
SALES | EUROPE
March truck business slackens, pulled down by shorter working month
West Europe’s March sales of heavy trucks in the 16t and above weight category dropped 5.5 per cent. Significantly, the region’s truck market, echoing the picture already seen in the March car market, was expected to suffer a notable setback because of last month's loss of between one and two working days
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TRUCK
SALES | EUROPE
Best truck sales year since 2008
December’s headlong plunge in the UK’s heavy truck market drags down the rest of Europe. Despite December’s sales dip, due chiefly to a statistical blip, last year’s third successive annual sales gain suggests that West Europe’s long-lingering truck sales famine is finally over
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WESTERN
EUROPE | TRUCKS
Europe’s heavy truck market up 4% at half-time June’s heavy truck sales in Western Europe, dragged down by up to two fewer working days in a number of markets such as Germany, rose by a modest 2.6 per cent to 22,131 units, according to provisional Acea sales estimates. June’s single-digit gain, marking the region’s fifth truck sales gain in six months, brings West Europe’s half-year heavy truck sales total to 125,654 units, 4 per cent up on last year’s comparative total.
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WESTERN
EUROPE | TRUCKS
May shows trucks resuming their steady upward trajectory
After just one month of falling heavy truck sales in Western Europe so far this year, pulled down chiefly by two fewer working days this April, last month, to the relief of Europe’s truck makers, saw the return to normal service
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UK | COMMERCIAL VEHICLES
EXCLUSIVE
More UK buyers gravitate towards butch Pick-ups
Ford’s F-Series Pick-Up, a stereotypical man’s motor in almost every
sense, may be the single best-selling vehicle in the world - a view
underlined by the realisation that in the five months to May this year a
striking 352,000 were already snapped up by keen US buyers alone - but
in Europe these butch Pick-Ups simply didn’t sell. Until now, that is.
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WESTERN
EUROPE | COMMERCIAL VEHICLES
Mercedes’ long running Sprinter popularity still revs both sales and profits
It is a rare development that a run-out product, already on the scene since 2006, is still producing record sales. But exactly that is what happened during the opening three months of this year with Mercedes’ long-serving Sprinter van range. Drawing attention to both the longevity and popularity of Mercedes
long serving Sprinter range, “it is primarily due to our [Sprinter] van icon that Mercedes-Benz Vans has posted its most successful first quarter of all time – in terms of unit sales, revenue and EBIT”, said Mercedes.
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WESTERN
EUROPE | TRUCKS
Vans lead Europe’s January’s commercial vehicle sales advance
West Europe’s commercial vehicle market, including all light and medium commercials and vehicles in the heavy truck category of 16t GVW and above, started the current year on yet another high. That’s the upbeat message from ACEA’s January commercial vehicle sales figures showing a strong 8.8 per cent jump to some 163,372 units. This latest jump, coming in the wake of last year’s even stronger 11 per cent jump to 2.18m units suggest that the end of West Europe’s great vehicle sales recovery story is not yet in sight |
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WESTERN
EUROPE | TRUCKS
Europe’s heavy truck market finally returns to near pre-crisis level A welcome whiff of the good old pre-crisis days has not only returned to West Europe’s car market, the same goes for heavy trucks |
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EDITORIAL It’s tough out there for stand-alone truckers "The
truck business is a man’s world. A relentless toil of
countless lonely hours, night-time work and unsocial hours.
For the driver, that’s it in a nutshell. Yet, almost the
same goes for senior management of today’s few remaining
heavy truck makers. And yet, almost everyone in this
business is wary of the fact that the global truck business,
unlike the highly volatile car business, is comparatively
future-proof and is not subjected to the whims of fashion.
Whatever the economic conditions, just like bread and water,
trucks are a prime essential part of daily living"
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WESTERN
EUROPE | TRUCKS
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WESTERN
EUROPE | TRUCKS
The heavy truck sales recovery in Western Europe remains in full swing. In spite of losing some steam during the second quarter when growth eased back to 13.8 per cent from a slightly more vibrant 15 per cent in the first quarter, the underlying pace of advance supports the view that West Europe’s heavy truck market is still heading for the best turnout since 2008.
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WESTERN EUROPE | LCV VAN MARKET
Companies are
buying trucks and vans at the highest rate for nearly a decade -
providing yet more proof that for much of Western Europe the economy has
not only escaped the icy grip of recession, but is about to return to a
near normal state of health. |
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WESTERN
EUROPE | TRUCKS Europe's heavy truck market has grown considerably faster than forecast just 4-months ago. Despite an ominous slight slowing in the UK’s April growth rate, West Europe’s overall heavy truck sales performance this April and in the first four months of the year remained positively robust, pointing to the prospect of brighter skies on the
horizon |
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WESTERN
EUROPE | TRUCKS For Europe’s heavy truck industry it just gets better as the year rolls on. That’s the upbeat message from latest West European heavy truck sales figures, showing that an already hot underlying sales pace is showing precious few signs of cooling down |
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WESTERN
EUROPE | TRUCKS Last year’s heavy truck sales in Western Europe rose by a stronger than expected 16 per cent to the highest annual sales level since 2008 – near 20 per cent leap in sales in both November and December raises hopes that pre-crisis levels could again be reached earlier than feared
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WESTERN
EUROPE | TRUCKS Since the beginning of this year sceptics have been confounded as West Europe’s heavy truck market has continued to recover far faster than forecast.
Sales this September rose 17.8 per cent, bringing the cumulative truck sales gain after nine successive months of strong and unwavering recovery growth to a matching 17.8 per cent.
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EUROPE | TRUCKS Europe’s heavy truck market has always been regarded as a reliable barometer of overall economic activity. One has only to glance at this year’s encouraging underlying regional sales progress from heavy trucks to be convinced that the regional truck sales renaissance that only began at the start of this year, appears to have lost no steam as the year progressed
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Heavy truck sales recovery in Western Europe continues to build momentum
Growing numbers of Europe’s new car buyers, presumably put off by the uncertainty now surrounding the future of diesel fuelled cars in inner city centres, plus the related fears of future discriminatory extra taxes on diesels, are doing what they have always done at times of uncertainty and change. They are increasingly opting for the safe option
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December’s heavy truck market more than halved |
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Daimler - ‘God bless America’ |
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Europe’s truck makers to pay price for Q4 2013 pre-buying |
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Mixed bag for Mercedes global |
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Trucks move upwards, not downwards as feared Italy’s long-battered car market to rise at long last – gas in retreat > Europe’s January truck sales up, not down as feared |
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UNITED KINGDOM |
Pre-buying
lifts heavy truck market |
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WESTERN EUROPE |
Europe’s
truck sales recovery strengthening, but it won’t last |
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WESTERN EUROPE |
Trucks on the move again |
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WESTERN EUROPE |
Euro 6 pre-buying binge? |
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