Light Vehicle Sales Forecasts

Powered by the largest team of industry and economic experts across 10 countries spanning 4 continents, IHS Automotive Light Vehicle Sales Forecast enables OEMs, suppliers, and financial institutions to make smarter business decisions based on sophisticated analysis.

Updated twice per quarter and backed by 10 years of historical data, IHS Automotive Light Vehicle Sales Forecast provides a level of detail unrivaled in the industry, featuring:

• In-depth analysis about regional and country economics, sales, regional and global vehicle segmentation, OEMs, product cycles, market-entry timing, sales strategies, and more
• Comprehensive geographic coverage of 70-plus sales countries across 11 regions, representing more than 97% of global light vehicle sales volume
• Extensive field coverage, including:
  • Sales region, market, and country
  • Strategic OEM group, sales parent, brand, and nameplate
  • Design parent, platform, and program code
  • Global segmentation, regional segmentation, and GVW
  • Regional production origin

The base Light Vehicle Sales Forecast spans 7 years and is updated twice per quarter. Data are delivered in quarterly buckets. 

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In addition to the base Light Vehicle Sales Forecast and its optional add-on modules, IHS Automotive also offers parc and sales actual information. Learn more about these products.

Developing new vehicle programs and planning new market entries takes time; and that’s just what you get with the IHS Automotive Light Vehicle Sales Forecast 12-Year Extension Module. This first-of-its-kind service provides you with insight and analysis across a 12-year forecast horizon, significantly enhancing long-term planning capabilities for your organization’s most visible and capital-intensive initiatives.

With the comprehensive coverage of the base IHS Automotive Light Vehicle Sales Forecast at its core—which provides detailed insight on models for 70 countries, covering 97% of global sales volume over a 7-year forecast horizon—the 12-Year Extension Module also provides calendar-year forecast volumes for years 8–12. The 12-Year Extension Module can also be extended to include light-vehicle body type for an additional fee.

The 12-year Extension Module is an optional add-on module to the base Light Vehicle Sales Forecast. The Module is updated twice per quarter.

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Successfully analyzing and predicting sales trends by body type (vehicle silhouette) relies on your ability to get detailed, timely, and trusted insight from every corner of the global automotive industry. The IHS Automotive Light Vehicle Sales Forecast Body Type Module forecasts the sale of different models by body type across 70 countries so you can understand and capitalize on demand trends on a market-by-market basis.

An indispensable companion to our base IHS Automotive Light Vehicle Sales Forecast, the Body Type Module provides forecasts and analysis beyond the vehicle-level by:

• Vehicle body type;
• Regional sub-segment;
• Regional price class; and
• Extended 12-year forecast horizon (with the addition of the 12-Year Extension Module).

The Body Type Module is updated twice per quarter. Data are delivered in quarterly buckets.

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Making the right long-term moves and staying ahead of the competition requires a comprehensive understanding of how OEMs production-source the vehicles they sell in markets around the world. IHS Automotive Sales Import Sourcing Module provides the sourcing insight you need—with a depth and accuracy unmatched by any other firm—to prepare for future shifts in market demand, understand the competitive landscape, assess and control business costs, and minimize inventory and sales gaps.

With the comprehensive coverage of IHS Automotive Light Vehicle Sales Forecast and Body Type Module at its core—which together provide detailed insight on models and body types for 70-plus countries, covering 97% of global sales volume over a 7-year forecast horizon—IHS Automotive Sales Import Sourcing Module provides additional forecasts and analysis by:

• Manufacturer and manufacturer group of vehicle
• Production region, market, country, and plant of vehicle
• Design creator of vehicle
• Platform engineering group
• Production brand and nameplate
• Extended 12-year forecast horizon (with addition of 12-year Extension Module)

The Import Sourcing Module is an optional add-on module to the base Light Vehicle Sales Forecast. The Module is updated twice per quarter. Data are delivered in quarterly buckets.

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IHS Automotive Light Vehicle Sales Cycle Plan Charting Module goes beyond top-line forecasts to provide detailed market insight and competitive industry intelligence for the top-30 geographic sales battlegrounds. It’s the ultimate resource for creating successful, next-generation product strategies that put you ahead of your competition.

IHS Automotive Light Vehicle Cycle Plan Charting Module leverages the comprehensive coverage of IHS Automotive Light Vehicle Sales Forecast and Body Type Module—which together provide detailed insight on models and body types for 70-plus countries, covering 97% of global sales volume over a 7-year forecast horizon. The module extends the value of these core services, to help you understand where and when new products will launch so you can create long-term product cycle plans that meet consumer demand and trump competitive offerings. Specifically, the service provides:

• Start-of-sales/end-of-sales date fields for each vehicle/body type combination per sales country for 70-plus countries
• Global product portfolio timing charts for major global OEMs/or top 20 OEMs
• OEMs’ offered portfolio timing charts for top 30 countries
• In-segment timing charts for all competitive offerings across each of the 30 countries
• Extended 12-year forecast horizon (with addition of 12-year Extension Module)

IHS Automotive can also consistently apply custom segmentation on a consulting basis.

The Cycle Plan Charting Module is an optional add-on module to the base Light Vehicle Sales Forecast. The Cycle Plan Charting Module are updated twice per quarter.

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IHS Automotive Light Vehicle Sales Contingency Forecasts meet the industry’s need for critical contingency planning by delivering detailed sensitivity analysis on IHS Automotive’s baseline sales forecasts. Providing high- and low-band sensitivity forecast scenarios for key drivers of the global automotive industry—including oil prices, political unrest, macro-economic factors, and more—our Light Vehicle Sales Contingency Forecasts help you assess and manage sales performance under alternative market conditions.

In concert with our base Light Vehicle Sales Forecasts—which covers 70 countries and 97% of global sales volume over a 7-year forecast horizon—the Light Vehicle Sales Contingency Forecasts help you understand why and how the market might over- or under-perform, so you can prepare your organization accordingly. Specifically, the service provides the following:

• Two alternative model-level forecasts with the same detailed fields as our base sales forecast;
• A narrative describing alternative economic/demand conditions and the high-level effects on regions and their segments; and
• “Delta” calculations for analysis of market, segment, and vehicle sales mix changes compared with the base sales forecast.

Contingency Forecasts are an optional add-on module to the base Light Vehicle Sales Forecast. Contingency Forecasts are updated once per quarter. Data are delivered in quarterly buckets.

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