Automotive Forecasting & Insight: IHS Automotive

In a world where success or failure depends on solid market planning, IHS Automotive products supply customers with the foresight they need to make better, more well-informed decisions oriented to the highest return while mitigating risk. Our automotive market forecasting services and strategic advisory solutions are trusted by automotive OEMs, Suppliers, Financial Firms and Governments around the world. Our insights help customers make the strategic decisions that sharpen their competitive edge.

With a unique global perspective, we understand the forces in play--market, product, technological, economic, financial, trade, transportation, energy, regulatory, demographic, and political--and the ways they interact to influence automotive industry market opportunities. IHS Automotive products can help you:

• Evaluate a market's potential, risk, and opportunity
• Quantify market-segmentation shifts
• Assess the accuracy of customer forecasts and your internal business plan
• Analyze your competitors' product, technology, market, and manufacturing strategies
• Stay abreast of the latest news and analysis related to OEMs and suppliers
• Assess technology-related risks and opportunities
• Know which suppliers are being sourced
• Strategically target new programs
• Identify realistic goals
• Reduce vulnerability to market forces
• Help assure your continued success

Products, Services, and Solutions

IHS Automotive products and services help you stay ahead in this complex, fast-changing industry:

• Light-vehicle forecasts: Sales, production and powertrain forecasts for light vehicles up to six tons, featuring over 250 brands and 2,000 models. 
• Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles forecasts: Sales, production, and powertrain forecasts by country, manufacturer, brand, and weight sector, along with company profiles for the major producers
• Industry headlines and analysis: Same-day and on-going analysis of automotive news and events to keep you informed about the key issues affecting light-vehicle, truck, and component manufacturers. 
• Component sourcing and technology analysis: From databases mapping components/suppliers and models/OEMs to original research and market analyses of materials, components, modules and systems. 
• Powertrain and Alternative propulsion systems: Forecasts and cycle plans for ICE engines across varied fuel types, transmissions, hybrid and electric systems.  Weekly and monthly newsletters, special reports, and news postings that focus on the changing developments on a range of propulsion and charging options for hybrid and electric vehicles. 
• Advisory services: Strategic consulting to help automotive manufacturers and suppliers grow their business through the synthesis of data and original research.

• Automotive Production Barometer – January 2011 
• Government Regulations Can Drive Industry Growth – Q1 2010   
• Market Disconnect: The Next Big Issue Facing American OEMs – Q1 2010
• The Prospect of Supplier Profitability in 2010 and Beyond– Q1 2010
• Vorsprung durch Premium – Q1 2010  
• North America International Auto Show 2010 Review – Q1 2010  
• Resistance Is Futile—Electronics Are on the Rise, Electronic Control Units and Communication Protocols – Q2 2009

About IHS Automotive

Since 1968 and 1991, respectively, IHS Global Insight and CSM Worldwide have been providing industry analysis, forecasts, data, and consulting services to automotive OEMs, Suppliers, Financial Firms and Governments involved with the automotive industry. Following the 2010 acquisition of CSM Worldwide, we have joined forces to create the automotive group at IHS. Collectively, we offer the most comprehensive content and deepest expertise and insight on the automotive industry available anywhere in the world today. Our qualifications include:

• 130 automotive experts, fluent in more than 15 languages, on site in eleven countries to cover the global automotive market 
• Analysts with an average of over 10 years of industry experience 
• More than 650 customers, accounting for over 85% of the world's top OEMs and suppliers 
• Supported by over 350 economists and analysts covering more than 170 industries in over 200 countries 
• Access to the world's largest commercial economic and financial database 
• Reliable intelligence and insight from the most consistently accurate forecaster in the industry