Global automobile sales may exceed 80 million in 2012 and 118 million in 2020, says Jeff Schuster, director of forecasting for researcher J.D. Power and Associates.
Renault will post record 2010 vehicle sales and profits and will unveil a fresh target for an operating margin of 4% to 5% in 2013, the newspaper Le Figaro reported.
Hyundai and Kia plan to increase their combined annual sales by 12% to 6.4m units next year. Group chairman Chung Mong-koo and heads of overseas operations posted the sales target during a recent meeting according
VW said annual deliveries will exceed 7 million for the first time in 2010 after sales last month gained 16%. Deliveries at VW Group brands including the Audi luxury unit and Czech Skoda division increased to 617,000 units in November,
Fiat will build a new plant at Pernambouc, in the Northeast of Brazil, able to produce 200,000 cars per year.
Cars will always be a dream of pleasure and prosperity built on technical progress. This dream relying on new technologies explains the new trends in automotive lighting and the firework of creativity and innovations displayed at the Paris Mondial Show. Look at the Audi A7 or Mercedes CLS: of course lighting innovations serve the purpose of improving drivers’ safety, but the key for their success also lies into their ability to give the driver additional pleasure and comfort.
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Audi A7
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Mercedes CLS
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What’s a good light?
What headlight does a car really need? Which are the best technological choices? The question is misleading. The suitable and safe light does not depend so much on the car but on its use. Halogen is a reasonable good light for a city car or for roads at speeds under 100km/h. Is it good enough for country roads or highways? As the study carried out by TÜV Rheinland-BAST in Germany has demonstrated, the number of nighttime accidents on rural road would be reduced by roughly 60% and total traffic deaths by 18% if all vehicles would be equipped with Xenon Lights!
In trying to assess what kind of lighting technology is suited to a particular driver’s needs, we have also to introduce personal factors like driver’s age or sight limits. Xenon lights give 200% more light and extend the vision of the driver up to 30m,
Driving Vision News will publish next week one of their more important report, “The wonderful World of passenger car Lighting”.
Stephane Le Seac’h is the new engineering manager of front and rear parts including lighting for high level and low range cars. He is located at Velizy.
2010 VISION Scientific Committee is in the process of selecting the 3 best lectures presented this year at PARIS VISION congress. A first run has selected the 16 best candidate lectures, out of which the 3 winners will be designated this week.
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