America witl enjoy a fourth consecutive year of growth in car sales in 2013, predicts IHS, a research firm. India and China will have further strong rises—though not at the double-digit rates seen until 2010. Brazil and Britain will suffer reverses. The end of subsidies to car buyers will lead to a slump in Japan, just as its carmakers' output recovers from the 2011 tsunami. In the European Union, car sales will fall for the sixth year in a row: they are now back at early 1990s levels. Although some European car factories face closure, elsewhere assembly lines are being built at a rapid clip.
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