Automotive

摘要

North American automotive sales and production will grow over the next five years, presenters at the MSCI s Forecast automotive breakout panel agreed, but the domestic Big Three won't be the primary engines behind that expansion. Disposable income is increasing for consumers in the U.S. and automobiles are the most affordable they've been iii almost three years, said Michael Wall, manager, forecast and analysis at Farmington Hills, Michigan-based CSM Worldwide, Inc. Tens of millions of Generation Y buyers will soon enter into the market as well, said Steve Rogers, vice president, sales and marketing, at Chicago-based spat Inland, and the average number of ears per household is expected to reach three by 2012. Longer life spans and a healthy migration rate (something other countries don't share) also are harbingers of good things for automotive. "We are a mobile society," Rogers said, "and [future generations] will want to keep it that way."