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The Monthly Autocast is an insiders’ guide to automotive sales, production and capacity. Offering insightful analysis and realistic forecasts of performance, this publication presents an informed view of business conditions and helps you quickly assess the impact of changes in the marketplace.

The cornerstone of The Monthly Autocast’s analysis is a comprehensive six-year forecast of activity for every manufacturer, model and plant in North America. Estimates offer a wealth of detail on OEM operations and quantify future prospects for:

■ Vehicle Production, By Nameplate and Platform

■ Vehicle Production And Capacity, By Assembly Plant

■ Future Product Redesigns, Sourcing Changes and Capacity Shifts

With a subscription to The Monthly Autocast automotive happenings are tracked and evaluated in a logical, easy-to-accomplish manner. You avoid the time-consuming process of compiling and assessing basic market intelligence, and can dramatically improve your business planning by gaining access to a comprehensive base of reliable information. Moreover, the report allows you to take a systematic look at the future, and thus helps focus your analysis on the strategic implications of coming, rather than past, automotive events.

The Monthly Autocast has been a trusted source of automotive market forecasts since its inception almost twenty years ago, and has assisted hundreds of senior level executives in developing reliable benchmarks for budgeting, scheduling and planning activities. Subscribers include a wide array of manufacturers, suppliers, government agencies, consultants, investment houses and transportation companies, and include many of the most recognized names in these sectors.

Clifford Swenson, Editor & Principal of The Monthly Autocast, has specialized in analyzing automotive trends since 1986, when he helped pioneer techniques for forecasting sales and production on a by-model basis while working as an economist at Merrill Lynch. He has also been instrumental in bringing new analytic capabilities to the automotive research community, and is noteworthy for being the first to make available forecasts of industry capacity usage and plant-by-plant production. In addition, Mr. Swenson has also created customized techniques for modeling market scenarios and technological adaptation rates, and is the author of several multi-client studies, including “Advanced High-Tech Machining Systems”, a widely read examination of factory automation trends.