About the Autocast
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 coming 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 detail;
■ Vehicle Production By Nameplate, Platform and Body-style
■ Vehicle Production And Capacity By Assembly Plant
■ Future Product Programs, 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, collating and assessing basic market intelligence, and can dramatically improve your business planning by gaining access to a comprehensive base of reliable market 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 for more than a decade, 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, investment houses and transportation companies, and include many of the most well known names in these sectors.
Clifford Swenson, Editor of The Monthly Autocast, has specialized in the analysis of automotive market trends since 1986, when he helped pioneer the techniques for forecasting sales and production on a by-model basis while working at Merrill Lynch. He has also been instrumental in bringing new analytic capabilities to the marketplace, and was among the first to develop detailed forecasts of industry capacity usage and plant-by-plant production for the automotive research community. In addition, Mr. Swenson has also authored several multi-client studies, including "Advanced High-Tech Machining Systems", a book which examined emerging trends in factory automation.