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China’s car production planners, encouraged by last year’s good economic growth in the world’s most populous country, allied to the related hot expansion in domestic car sales, were kept busy cranking up assembly line speeds in order to cope with the faster than earlier anticipated influx of domestic orders during the second half. With car production running at full throttle, last year’s car production in China rose by almost a quarter to some 16.4m cars, according to VDA compiled figures. That directly compares to the 13.3m cars built in China only the year before. Two factors are at the root of last year’s encouraging global car production rebound: China and the US. Apart from China’s powerful growth locomotive, pulling last year’s car production train into the right direction, there was yet another locomotive pushing into the same direction from the opposite end. What last year’s global car production figures are saying is that apart from China, the US too has acted as a potent growth locomotive. These combined efforts at opposing ends clearly helped to get the world’s previously stuttering car production engine back on its feet ...more ‘Made in Germany’ - German production lines kept humming 21 Feb 2014 Western Europe - Off to a good start in January 10 Feb 2014 German-made cars rule Britain’s roads 15 Mar 2013
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