Stability of the European automobile market, outbreak of raw material prices, serious ups and downs in the price of fuel: the Mondial de l'Automobile de Paris, which will open its doors to the public this Saturday and Sunday, October 15, is hardly under the best auspices for the industry. Yet, through the good news that will be unveiled sixty porte de Versailles, a number of futuristic prototypes, builders ever try wake up libido in each motorist, justifying the rank of Paris as first automobile exhibition in the world by number of visitors to the elbow-to-elbow with Tokyo.
An increase in supply
As evidenced by number of these developments, as the Opel Antara, the Citroën C4 Picasso, Mitsubishi Outlander or Nissan Qasqhai, left market more and more niche traditional sedans to migrate to New Territories. Even if a little confuse customer, who has difficulty tracking the surge of new silhouettes and the replacement of the models in the end, generally, only seven years. At the Paris world, 282 marks from 24 countries will attempt to capture the light of headlamps. Among the small, it notes the Romanian Dacia, subsidiary of Renault, Dodge us and Chinese them Landwind and Great Wall, came in recognition. What add a little more to the ambient profusion. Even if it is not fully addressed in Europe, the supply of the world's top automotive producers increased by 40 these sixteen years, from 315 to 440 distinct variants, and should work towards 550 variants of body here in 2010, according to a recent report of the economic and social Council. Brands such as Mercedes or Volkswagen rose in ten years only, from 9 vehicles to 17 or 18 distinct silhouettes!
On these new models, the traditional sedan is less and less popular: it represents more than 61 of the France sales and 57 in Europe. Because many new market niches. After to be trimmed a great success, the family minivan already began to lose steam. It is more and more competed by the "crossover" vehicle mounted between several styles, trying to marry the practical benefits of a 4 x 4 and the pleasure of driving a sedan.
Niche vehicles
"The market already has much evolved to the point that today ' hui, niche vehicles have become high-volume models", according to PricewaterhouseCoopers experts. But if the breaks have been able to find a new youth, the niche of the "minispaces" (Peugeot 1007, Renault Modus, Fiat Panda...) has not taken off as expected. The multiplication of the silhouettes is insufficient alone to crack the consumer, limited by its purchasing power. "The West European automobile market more progress." "It is even lower in volume than what it was in 1999," said Jean-Martin Folz, President of PSA Peugeot Citroën. "We are in a period of slowdown in the renewal of cars, as shown in the increase in the average age of vehicles in circulation." According to him, the automotive application will not flinch in the future, "even if the environment, safety and congestion are of actual threats". Dream for some, the car object is also a significant expenditure item. It represents 12.3 of the total budget of households, according to Insee. And in the budget families, the share of auto transport has continued to climb for forty years, from 75 to 83. Experts have prove that off inflation, the price of new cars decline for ten years, clients, they have the opposite perception.
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