Global Industry Forecasts > Quarterly Industry Forecasts > Motor Vehicles

Disappointment is evident going into year-end, as weaker vehicle production trends spread from emerging markets into developed countries (most notably Japan and the Eurozone). Signs that developed countries exports are stuttering are compounding an earlier loss in momentum in car and truck firms emerging-market plants. Nonetheless, global output growth in 2015 is still likely to be 2½%, only just below the 2¾% rate now estimated for 2014.