European automotive industry research and statistics company, Jato Dynamics, today reported a 26 percent decline in European new car sales for January.

Every market is down, Iceland in free-fall with an 88.1 percent decline and Ireland not far behind, recording a 66.3 percent decline. Of the biggest markets, France has fared best with just a 7.9 [...]

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Looking into the 2008 VFACTS Australian new vehicle sales figures is like analysing the entrails of a chicken – favoured, we’re told, by ancient Roman oracles for predicting the future.

Behind the VFACTS stats, once you start poking around in the giblets, you can discern the powerful trends that tell the real story of the state [...]

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