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Automotive production is a rapidly changing business.Understanding where production is headed requires more than just historical facts. You also need accessible information on future plans, reliable forecasts, and effective tools to manage it all. Helpful guidance along the way requires knowledgeable analysts in the thick of the details with industry and economic perspective to answer your questions and to provide real support.

WardsAuto knows what it takes because automotive is our business; it’s all we do. We are proud to offer established global and regional forecasts with timely information, precision tools, and most importantly, experienced analysts who value client questions, discussions and input.

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Light Vehicle Production ForecastWhen YouNeed Them.

Global Production covering 6 geographical regions and more than 50 countries with a seven-year planning window, updated monthly.

Over 20 Attributes including manufacturer, brand, brand owner, market segment, platform, program code, plant, SOP/EOP, nameplate and more.

Future Product Program information on light vehicles with platform, program and nameplate details, updated monthly.

Medium and Heavy Duty Truck volumes included for the North American markets.

Weekly Guidance Reports with updates on plant shutdowns, new and revised programs, overtime/downtime, changes to SOP/EOP, labor relations, assembly location, and number of workdays.

Product Cycle Charts provide graphical chart display by quarter with SOP/EOP for each region, updated monthly.

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Putting the Power in Your HandsFlexible Report Generator makes the databases easily accessible 24/7 through a web browser. Customize and save specific reports or create ad hoc queries. Monthly, quarterly and annual formats are all available, with data output viewable in HTML or exported directly to Excel.

Vehicle Life-Cycle Charting Tool allows you to apply various data filters to view vehicle data in a bar-graphic presentation. In addition, annual and average lifecycle volumes can be included in the display. This report can be viewed online or downloaded into Excel.

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Scenario Tool allows you to create an “in-house forecast” using our forecast as a seed for business opportunity and risk planning. With it, you can make adjustments across the industry, by platform or by model line quickly and easily. This tool can also be used to create best-case and worst-case scenarios and apply changes down to nameplate detail. (Optional)

Revenue Planning Tool combines the forecast with revenue planning functionality, allowing you to input and track detailed revenue on vehicle applications at the part- number level with a real-time, corporate interface. Determine your past, current, and future revenue footprint and understand how to plan your business into the future. (Optional)

Market-Competitive Analysis Tool allows you to track product part volumes from a market share and competitor perspective. Full reporting capability is provided for detailed decision support analysis to determine your current business, your competitor’s business, and new opportunities. (Optional)

Our Global Powertrain Forecast is available in conjunction with the global vehicle production forecast. This powertrain application forecast details engines, transmissions, hybrid, and electric volumes and is updated monthly, concurrently with light vehicle production. Each package (IC Engine, Transmission, Electric Motors) is applied to a vehicle/assembly plant record.

We offer extensive coverage by powertrain attributes (number of cylinders, aspiration, fuel deliv-ery and others) accessible through the flexible report generator tool which allows you to select specific attributes and draw out the details from over 20,000 different records, each tied to indi-vidual nameplates.

People make the difference.WardsAuto understands your information needs are time sensitive and having prompt answers makes a difference. Our data and analysis team provides prompt, direct support via email and phone. And because we want you to make the best use of our forecasts, we value and encourage interaction and feedback from our clients. Combining the power of the WardsAuto global information organization and our forecasting partner AutomotiveCompass, we look forward to helping you navigate the road ahead.

mine our data to learn more about what is being built on any of the platform, plants, programs or other more than 20 attributes available, and the volumes associated with them, down to nameplate detail.

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ABOUT WARDSAUTOWardsAuto has been a trusted provider of auto industry information for more than 80 years. With a strong reputation for quality business intelligence and statistics, we are proud to serve the world’s major automakers, suppliers, and financial analysts, researchers and others with timely, informative products and services, and helpful people.

LISA WILLIAMSON

Email: [email protected]

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Understand how powertrain volumes are changing.Our global powertrain forecast, created in conjunction with our global vehicle production forecast, directly ties the powertrain figures to practical demand to give you the realistic picture of powertrains into the future. This forecast of powertrain applications details the engines, transmissions, hybrid, and electric volumes and has each powertrain package applied to a vehicle and assembly plant record.

Forecasts cover the monthly, quarterly and annual volumes for the upcoming seven years plus history and are updated monthly, concurrent with the light vehicle production volumes.

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Further, we offer extensive coverage by powertrain attributes (number of cylinders, aspiration, fuel delivery and others), accessible through the flexible report generator tool to allow you to select specific attributes and draw out the details from over 45,000 different records, each tied to individual nameplates.

With so many details to track, our global powertrain forecast also includes a change analysis report to allow you to quickly and easily identify what has changed from the prior release for quick understanding of where the changes have occurred.

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Production volume forecasts are important, but they don’t provide the full story about what to expect into the future.With our Global Product Cycle Plans, you will also have the details on current product plans and their plants several years into the future. You will also be notified of new changes on a weekly basis to keep you updated and able to act on opportunities.

To give you full coverage and perspective, our Global Product Cycle Plans are provided for each of the six geographical regions and cover the current year plus six years into the future for a comprehensive planning window. Periods are displayed by quarter, month and year.

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Key attributes of the plans include manufacturer, brand, platform, program code, start of production (SOP), end of production (EOP), plant location and annual average lifetime volumes. Moreover, since timing is often critical, updates are emailed to our clients directly every week with new changes on plant activities, new and revised programs, shutdowns, changes to production timing, labor relations, assembly location and others.

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Quality information is only valuable when it comes in a useable package.With our powerful database and reporting tools, you can create and save forcast reports built to your specific areas of interest. Save these queries and you will get new information and updated forecasts each month in just a few clicks. You can also create ad hoc queries quickly and easily to answer new questions. All data is reported in Excel spreadsheet format in monthly, quarterly, or annual periods of your choosing directly from our online database.

Plus, you can see where the programs are headed by retrieving and viewing vehicle life cycle information either in a bar graphic or in Excel spreadsheet format. Vehicle programs can also be paired with the annual average lifecycle volumes for a comprehensive look at relative volumes, duration and program change throughout the periods of the forecast.

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Want to do more? With our add-on tools, you can easily build your own in-house forecasts, plan your revenue, assess market share and competitive environment, and evaluate opportunities.

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With so much information out there, how do you decide what matters?What is relevant and how will it impact your volumes? Our services provide the answers you need to understand how yesterday, today and tomorrow will shift production around the world, how changes to individual programs are being implemented, and where and when these changes will occur.

As the only forecast produced within a news-gathering organization, we are in a rare position to be “in the know” on what matters to you on vehicle and powertrain production. Armed with the experience of decades of analysis and insight, our team carefully considers all input, insight and information from a very wide range of sources and econometric models to determine the direction and details of production into the future.

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We are the go-to resource for those who need reliable insight and analysis, timely and helpful customer support, and thorough understanding of the issues in our industry. Let us help you reduce the time spent wondering on waiting for answers.

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Knowledgeable analysis and support staff make the difference.With a singular focus on the automotive and trucking industry for over 80 years, our work has always been to provide quality insight, reliable analysis and actionable information in the areas that matter most to our clients.

To that most important end, the WardsAuto Forecasts offer a comprehensive look at global and regional vehicle production forecasts, complete with powertrain detail, SOP/EOP, weekly updates and much more. And while the services provide tools for retrieving the information as you’d like to have it, we believe the more important aspect is the people to whom you have access.

Our WardsAuto Forecasts team consists of automotive subject matter experts; all with a minimum of 15 years of experience covering, understanding and predicting the turns and twists the industry and its players will take.

Decades of experience.

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With seasoned perspective, they are able to see the trends, appropriately weight the effect of new information, and focus on how the future will be shaped. Moreover, they appreciate the importance of having questions about our forecasts answered in a timely fashion and so welcome your questions, thoughts and comments anytime.

Our WardsAuto Forecasts are trusted by automakers, suppliers of all tiers and sizes, financial analysts and other professionals who need reliable, insightful and helpful information. Please feel free to contact us to learn more.

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People make the difference.WardsAuto understands your information needs are time sensitive and having prompt answers makes a difference. Our data and analysis team provides prompt, direct support via email and phone. And because we want you to make the best use of our forecasts, we value and encourage interaction and feedback from our clients.



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LISA WILLIAMSON

Email: [email protected]

1-248-799-2642

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