World market improving
The world car industry is optimistic. After a fall in sales in 2009 (63 million vehicles sold as opposed to 68 million in 2008), the industry began to assume a healthier complexion in 2010 (71 million cars sold). The first six months of 2011 confirmed this trend with a + 5.4% rise in sales in the first half of the year - in other words 37.3 million vehicles sold. All this, despite the crisis and with a nuclear disaster in Japan (a whole month of production in the car...