“The English [British] working laws book is 90 pages – the French [one] is 3,387 pages” – Plastic Omnium chairman and CEO, Laurent Burelle.
“Free Trade Agreements are often seen as a threat or a risk, when clearly they are an opportunity and maybe that opportunity should be grasped quickly,” BMW sales and marketing board member, Ian Robertson.
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“There are around 700,000 [annual science and engineering graduates] in India”- CLEPA CEO, Jean-Marc Gales.
“It will be a bad effect if one continent is over-regulated and as a Frenchman I know what over-regulation means” – Plastic Omnium chairman and CEO, Laurent Burelle.
“Our projections are far above – 42% above – what we were forecasting and we are having to increase production capacity at Vigo in Spain” – Peugeot brand CEO Maxime Picat on the 301 sedan model.
“The only [sizeable] car market in Europe that is still moving forward is the United Kingdom” – BMW sales and marketing board member, Ian Robertson.
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By GlobalData“We have seen the emergence of a large portion of car buyers who no longer show their pride in the most recent or expensive car model, but [they] would rather invest in high-tech, leisure” – Renault entry range programme director, Arnaud Deboeuf.
“Engineers exaggerate the cost of bringing down CO2” – Transport & Environment clean vehicles programme manager Greg Archer.
“For the next three to five years, electric vehicles will be a relatively rare sight on the roads” – Morgan Stanley automotive analyst Stuart Pearson.
“We have average [European] sales in 2012/2013 which are around 12-13m cars when we know we had in 2008 the capacity to produce 17m cars” – European Commission head of unit sustainable mobility and automotive industry Philippe Jean.
“Two new cars are sold every second around the world” – Audi sales and marketing board member Luca de Meo.
