Frankfurt Motor Show: It's Germany, stupid

Posted Sep 16th 2009 10:54AM by Jay Nagley
Filed under: Ford, Frankfurt Motor Show

In an exclusive briefing, at which Autoblog was the only UK representative, Ford gave a warning that prospects for the whole European industry depended on continuing the scrappage incentive programme in Germany.

There have been independent forecasts that sales in Germany could fall by almost 1 million units a year if the scrappage programme is not extended, and Ford said such a decline would kill off the prospects of recovery for all European manufacturers, as well as bankrupting many German dealers.

Conversely, Ford reckons the economic prospects in the rest of Europe are pretty positive for 2010 and there should be a recovery in most markets – but that will count for nothing if the German market falls off a cliff.

Tags: Ford, Frankfurt, Frankfurt 2009, Frankfurt Motor Show, Frankfurt2009, FrankfurtMotorShow, IAA 2009, Iaa2009

Print this

Add your comments

Your comments:

Remember me

E-Mail me when someone replies to this comment

Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.

When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password.

To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br /> tags.