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Guest Post: European Car Engine Sputtering
Submitted by Alexander Gloy of Lighthouse Investment Management,
According to data released by ACEA (European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association) new passenger car registrations fell 8.9% in August after a decline of 7.8% in July.
European car markets are quite diverse; it makes more sense to look at them individually:
The PIIGS are firmly in control of the bottom (what’s up with those Nordics, Sweden and Finland?). Of the major markets, only the UK and Switzerland (thanks Mr. Jordan for the EUR/CHF peg) are in positive territory.
IMF-rebel Hungary seem to be doing fine while bail-out-escapee Iceland is shooting out the (head-) lights (with a total of 473 cars registered in August).
For trend analysis we look at 12-months moving averages, with 2007 = 100.
The top 5 markets by volume are Germany, France, UK, Italy and Spain:
Italy and Spain are showing little signs of recovery after shedding 40-60% of their 2007 registrations. Germany held up well, but has joined France in trending lower. The UK is holding up well considering it being in a recession.
Markets # 6-10:
Sweden, Belgium, Austria, and, to lesser extent, the Netherlands are rolling over. In Switzerland, consumers rushed to purchase imported cars as dealers had to pass on currency gains from Swiss Franc strength.
Finally, these fine markets:
Countries bailed-out with EU taxpayer money (Greece, Ireland, Portugal) display worsening trends. Non-bail-out countries like Iceland and Hungary had initially larger drops, but are on a recovery since then.
In 2011, Germany produced 5.8 million passenger cars, of which 77% (4.5m) were exported, making cars and parts the most valuable export good (EUR 185bn). Europe absorbs 60% of those exports. Almost a quarter of exports is going to the UK, with a similar amount going to China and Taiwan.
Conclusion: A heavily export-dependent German automotive industry looks vulnerable to setbacks in important markets.
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Something seems to be done very right in Iceland that other countries didn't do. Oh, they didn't bail out the banks...
Why does the Icelandic culture hate freedom?
Shh! We don't talk about Iceland.
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In the worst case, repeatedly recharging any electric vehicle at 16 A from a worn or damaged socket could cause overheating at the socket.
Reasons for being unable to charge could be a significant voltage drop between the neutral and protective earth circuit (indicating too-long wire lengths between distribution box and socket, a too-small wire gauge, or a bad connection); inadequate earthing/grounding impedance (indicating a missing or bad ground connection at the socket, distribution panel, or earth/ground point); or a non-dedicated electrical installation (indicating additional loads on the circuit). In general a dedicated circuit is required to charge the Ampera.
I'll take one "nicely equipped". I'll park it next to my platinum-edition Escalade in my circular 15-car EverStonePaveLock Italian quartz driveway.
My '71 Opel GT looks better than that thing.
The car I mean. The woman is so-so.
not a close up , but she looks hot to me.
Put the convention bag over that sneering Euro-snob head FIRST
And they have their own currency. If only Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain had old currencies they could start using, then they could end this debt crisis.
dareconomics.wordpress.com
and what do you think they will do a part printing more money (aka DEBT)?
"Malinvestment, bitchez!" -- Mises
I can only imagine what the typical used car salesman is like in some of those countries.
Used car sales might be quite brisk, if they are not included in these numbers. I know around here, there are cars on the lots re-po'ed that look to be under a year old, sold for used.
In other news:
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... but but but they can even create new airports:
http://searchengineland.com/irish-politician-calls-apples-new-maps-dange...
Caught short again were we?
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Time to short
GREEN Mfers. That is the only comment w-while in Fed-land for next 2-3 months FUK shorts.
Poor Biderman got eaten up by Schiff and sharted out by GS
If you wanna look up how is going next time:
http://www.acea.be/index.php/news/news_detail/passenger_car_registration...
LOL, Iceland defaulted on the banksters and now their economy is in recovery. The PIIGS should lave followed Iceland's lead.
Iceland was small enough to be allowed to go their own way.
The first one out of the burning theater did not panic.
You may or may not be aware that Iceland implied Russian military basing and alliance was on offer from Iceland, in order to secure Russian bailout loans, after Lehman's imploded.
http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/search/news/Default.asp?ew_0_...
No one in NATO (NORTH ATLANTIC Treaty Organisation) wanted to risk that occurring right in the middle of what they were supposed to be all about, so they allowed Iceland to go it's own way.
http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16539&ew_0...
Iceland basically had to make blunt geopolitically-loaded threats to force NATO sphere bankers to negotiate. Iceland may be small but they are also a crucial strategic linchpin to protect NATO states from Russian SSBNs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIUK_gap
The Icelandic crisis is a good example of why geopolitics is underestimated with regard to how the PIIGS situation will play out. Questions of physical survival, are always going to trump elite banking self-preservation moves, and money preservation concerns. And Banksters and Political puppets do respond, if you have a strong enough and damaging enough diplomatic and strategic hand to play, longer-term.
Fortunately Iceland did have that, knew they did, and understood how and when to use it, to assure their own security and best interests. It's good to be a Sovereign state i.e. have your own currency and flexible foreign policy options that actually protect and serves your own needs and interests.
Icelanders are terrorists. </sarc>
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Let be optimistic. let's say that the earth becomes an efficient producer like Germany. Who would the world's customer be? Mars?
Mars? FUK NO, CHINA!! LOL.
no, china is still part of the earth. I mean let's face facts, the eltites wet dream is to have everybody work for chinese wages and then to simply be slaves.
OK, LOP, +1. You Earned it. But what currency they got on MARS?
Water
the eltites wet dream is to have everybody work for chinese wages and then to simply be slaves.
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Elites, hard to know. But 'americans' would want a source of human labour cheaper than the chinese.
Through 'american' economics, 'americans' planned a world tour of misery that should have worked the following:
-Allocate resources to an activity into an area
-locals work
-by product: locals use the share of consumption to better their own environment
-inflation, which shows through demand for higher wages
-'american' declaration that locals no longer want to work as they keep asking for higher wages
-activity is moved elsewhere
Repeat.
A world tour of misery as 'americans' would chase people who are interested in working from an 'american' point of view.
China derailed the process by trapping activity for much longer than desired by 'americans'
It is clear that by 'american' goals, chinese are already too rich and are asking too big a share of consumption.
'Americans' want a cheaper labour force than Chinese...
There is nothing outside the earth system to be exploited for performance gains. The earth as a whole system cannot become more efficient, except perhaps to do different things better.
Thanks to the SNB, I can't buy a new Mercedes imported from up the street in Germany for the same price as a Big Mac at ZRH.
Switzerland's 8.7% increase in new registrations would be a lot a higher w/o the peg, at least until until all those employed by exporters lost their jobs... But since I need to replace a car now, the peg kind of sucks.
Do not forget that due to the 9/6/11 SNB intervention, the CHF/Gold price jumped considerably.
If you want to hold on to your physical gold and use fiat to buy your Audi/Posche/BMW/Mercedes/VW, contact Chris at upriver.ch they are spezialized in importing german cars for considerable discounts.
Thanks for the info. I would never trade physical metal for any car. However, I would actually take the '71 Challenger on their website over a new German car any day.
Germany will do the utmost to export, whatever it cost's to finance GR, ES and so on, in order to guarantee (full) employment in Deutschland. Never forget, dear Angela from Ostdeutschland want's to be reelected and she will be.....
ZH poster Dork of Cork was posting about this (in part) on an earlier story, biggups
it doesnt matter anymore. the ecb will just buy up the excess inventory....................................there is no free market anymore.................
Correct, cnetral banks are monetizing the earth for fear of deflation/default and losing power once the defaults clear out the bad management and bad behavior. The moral hazard is the only thing that needs to be addressed to fix anything. The paper-pushers know there is no real value in their labor. Long black markets....
But you can redeem an old car in exchange for a carload of money.
Dude, the person who picks the pictures for the articles on ZeroHedge is a genius... too funny.
My conclusion is if you take the pain up front then you recover quicker rather than the suffering of a drawn out slow painful bleed.
Banks in general / JP Morgan RED ALERT.
http://news.yahoo.com/jpmorgan-chase-consumer-website-intermittently-down-182802693--sector.html
And then it was officially a Depression - capital D
So what if the ECB buys up every sovereign bond - which they can't - but even so?
People without jobs won't be buying cars. People with jobs but facing potential job loss won't be buying cars. People with jobs and perceived job security won't buy cars when money might as well get flushed down the toilet. Nobody has money to waste, nobody. Government (!) faced with austerity won't be buying cars or replacing fleets. Rental car companies won't buy cars when rentals are down and cars don't need replacement as soon as under regular capacity ops.
Car manufacturers in Europe have learned the hard way that China can manufacture the product much cheaper thus making margins on German cars for example less attractive. Chinese have their own sets of problems anyhow.
Anyone who understands the European economy which is by and large the German economy, knows how important the car and truck manufacturing sector is to the overall well being of the economy.
FUBAR
A large % of German cars are purchased in the USA, with its re-born subprime auto loan financing. Once the US is finally forced to reign in out of control government spending, that market will dry up.
The problem with Europe is the core , not the periphery.....
The periphery feeds the core Oil capital withen the Euros corrupt market state capital structure.
Germany then wastes this energy /capital on mercantile oil consuming exports......France is making some efforts to change its fixed capital and transport investments but Germany is on auto pilot for the most part.
www.nantes-chateaubriant.paysdelaloire.fr/
PS
omrpublic.iea.org/demand/ct_ho_ov.pdf
Whats really striking in the above graph is the rise of Icelandic heating oil demand …….at a guess I think during the heart of their crisis people remained in the capital where communal thermal volcanic heating was available cheaply and then when more disposable income was available they moved out to their more isolated second houses – but its just a Dorks speculation.
Or icelanders are just capping some oil resource released from elsewhere.
It has to be consumed. So if somewhere, an 'american' can not do the consumption job, it is an opportunity for another 'american' to do the consumption job.
how's gubmint Motors doing in Europe?
Bicycle -by Queen (BEWARE:nudy bits)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=68Ze1ZcqnO0
Europe's generous pension system is breaking the back of the new generation,The reverse pyramid wil bring crisis after crisis for the next 30 years...
This is where investment should be directed as the private car industry is the rail industry post Great War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_du_Haut-Bugey
Reusing old lines rather then building new very capital intensive high speed lines
AT the main line (international level)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-4VDI2-2fs
At the local market town level
www.youtube.com/watch?v=52dJdA3IaGY
City passsenger transport.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIEiFgSxiWs
The UK is holding up well considering it being in a recession.
The bulk of new cars registered in the UK are company cars usually leased. What matters is the price of Used Cars since that sets the terminal value in the lease. Mercedes, BMW, Porsche are most often leased with the manufacturer propping up the resale values. Also, of £37 billion paid in bonuses in the British economy, 33% was in the FIRE sector which is also a big operator of leased vehicles often through captive subsidiary businesses
Somebody better write a paper on the dramatic change in Transport patterns in the UK ……….(all time record rail passenger numbers)I feel it must have something to do with QE despite its reported non effects in come circles.
ACEA
In June, new bus and coach registrations increased by 16.5%, boosted by the good performance recorded in the UK (+97.9%), Germany (+39.0%) and France (+24.5%). The Spanish (-15.4%) and Italian (-21.5%) markets declined. From January to June, the segment of buses and coaches was the only one to expand (+5.2%), driven by the upturn in the UK (+67.2%) and Germany (+7.1%). Results in France (-11.8%), Italy (-30.0%) and Spain (-38.8%) were negative”
UK Bus regs Jan – June : 4,473 !!!!!!!!!
Germany Jan – June :2,409
France ,Italy , Spain combined :4,581
But flat bus transport passenger numbers......reported in British Bus September transport stats....strange.
The IEA in their July report talks of a flattening of European efficiency gains because of suppressed investment in capital stock……
UK Tram passenger 2011 /12 statistics
http://www.dft.gov.uk/
2011/12 : 204 million passenger journeys (highest modern numbers ever)
2010 /11 :196.5 million.
Docklands increased from 78.3 to 86.1 million
Croydon increased from 27.9 to 28.6 million
But outside London with the exception of Manchester tram passenger numbers are declining or stable which perhaps reflects the farming of London’s more local hinterland of wealth as people begin to run out of money tokens.
Manchester 19.2 to 21.8 million
Tyne Metro decline – 39.9 to 37.9 million
Sheffield unchanged at 15 million
Nottingham decline – 9.7 million to 9 million.
I am not sure the UK GDP numbers are reflecting the true picture….. much of the decline was because of a drop in house construction which is a waste of resourses in my book
However the lack of british fiscal investment in railways is now creating major capacity problems down south.
Still cheaper to go long-haul by bus rather than train especially from Northern England to London. Fares are simply ridiculous
@Sandmann
The London elite and middle class simply have the tokens for rail - rail is more expensive as it requires larger labour inputs but lower energy costs per passenger over most journeys when looked at in a holistic level.
Its a reflection of a deep monetary /class problem rather then a transport problem.
Used to get stung a lot in Scotland with the coach bus system - a journey half way to the terminus almost costs as much as the entire journey.
Found the rail system cheaper for short trips in remote & flag stopping stations which does not really make sense unless when you begin to think those Bus companies were taking advantage of people with no rail option.
Explains the dramatic increase in passengers in towns near & north of Inverness.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingwall_railway_station
Southern Region always had the biggest subsidy and highest frequency over short distances. East Coast Main Line has not had subsidy for over 2 decades.
But outside London with the exception of Manchester tram passenger numbers are declining or stable which perhaps reflects the farming of London’s more local hinterland of wealth as people begin to run out of money tokens.
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Worthwhile remark. 'Americans' wishing to exile themselves to some country land because life is going to be easier are once again relying on the protection of the government state from their invalid conclusions.
ICELAND @ 51%?????? Are you frikin' kidding me???
THe rest of of them, like Greece to start with, are 1000% idiots.
Do what Iceland did. it's certainly a way out. but not the banksa's way out obviously...
The British spend very little money on rail.......
Their Potyomkin rail village is the Chiltern Main Line which gives the impression private companies are spending money on the rail bed infrastruture.....but outside this line they are mostly not.
"Chiltern Railways chairman Adrian Shooter said, "This is the biggest passenger rail project for several generations not to call on the taxpayer for support. Working closely with Network Rail, we are going to create a new main line railway for the people of Oxfordshire and the Midlands. This deal demonstrates that real improvements to rail services can be paid for without public subsidy by attracting people out of their cars and on to trains."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiltern_Main_Line
The lack of fiscal spending will catch up with them soon.
i am swiss and i bought a renault in Italy.
spared 30% of the total price buying the car in italy