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Automotive Light Vehicle Forecasts

Automotive Industry Forecast: Light Vehicle Sales

Inform your long-term light vehicle strategic planning. How many vehicles will be sold in 2025?

Need to test your market assumptions? Understand competitive dynamics?

This 7-year independent analysis of light-vehicle demand and segment growth integrates current information with 10 years of historical data. The forecast is updated twice a quarter and can be expanded with optional add-on modules. The base forecast is authored by industry and economic experts located in 10 countries to help you:
  • Monitor competitive product/segment trends
  • Analyze customer growth
  • Track technology adoption
  • Understand OEM brand strength
  • Gauge market share

What’s Included

The service provides analysis on 70+ sales countries across 11 regions, representing more than 97% of global light vehicle sales volume
In-depth Analysis
  • Economics
  • Sales
  • Vehicle segmentation
  • OEMs
  • Product cycles
  • Market-entry timing
  • Sales strategies
Field Coverage
  • Sales region, market, and country
  • Customers, OEMs, product types and business units
  • Strategic OEM group, sales parent, brand and nameplate
  • Design parent, platform and program code
  • World, region and GVW
  • Regional production origin

Add-on Modules

In addition to the base forecasts, IHS Markit offers a full range of optional add-on modules that expand the depth and detail of our insight in areas critical to your organizations success.

Add-on Modules

Description

12-year Extension Forecast

Plan for your most visible and capital-intensive initiatives

Import Sourcing Forecast

Find out how OEMs production-source the vehicles they sell in global markets

Cycle Plan Charting Forecast

Pinpoint new product launches to help create long-term product cycle plans

Contingency Forecasts

Assess and manage vehicle sales under alternative market conditions

Forecast Simulation Tool - Long-term

Input assumptions for "what-if" scenarios over the long term

Forecast Simulation Tool - Short-term

Create short-term "what-if" scenarios by varying assumptions

Body Type Forecast

Gauge competitive segmentation, vehicle platform utilization and product breadth
Vehicle List Price Forecast
Position list prices for new model launches into competitive clusters 

FAQs

How many light vehicles are expected to be sold globally in 2020?

69,630,142

How many light vehicles are expected to be sold globally in 2025?

92,754,131

What is a light vehicle?

Light vehicles are less than six tons

Experts

Vijay Subramanian

Global Director - CO2 Compliance, Cost and Powertrain Forecasting, Automotive, IHS Markit

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