The long-running strike at Maruti Suzuki has got costly for the company and threatened sales in the normal festival boom time. You’d think the company’s management would be spitting tacks by now but its attitude is still more concilatory than you’d expect.
Thai sales rose in September but are expected to plunge this month as the effects of the floods – more on suppliers than automakers – take effect. Consensus seems to suggest car plants will be down about a month, especially Honda’s which so far is the only one to have actually been in the drink rather than just affected by it.
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Mystery surrounded the shock axing of top US Mercedes man Ernst Lieb with pundits initially suggesting ‘compliance’ or ‘personal’ matters could only explain the yanking of a popular man whose time at the tiller has been good for the brand. ‘Compliance’ appears to be the reason as details of alleged misdemeanours have begun to leak out unoffically in German media.
European sales inched up in September but analysts are fretting about future prospects. Likely connected is PSA’s decision to suspend some production in Slovakia.
Although it went its own way with the NV200, Nissan’s launch this week of a new NV400 shows there’s life yet in the GM-Renault-Nissan van building JV in Europe.
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By GlobalDataGraeme Roberts, Deputy Editor, just-auto.com
