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BOLOGNA 04/12/2008 - "At the end of November, in the world, we delivered to customers around 7700 cars, 22% more 'on 2007, of which 2950 Quattroporte GT and 4750 GTS 850 / 870 and of these about. We plan to close 2008 with a total of 8,500 cars (+20% YoY) increase of about 400 units' sales each of our two models, and 3400 GT Quattroporte and 5100. "
This was stated at the Bologna Motor Show, at the Maserati (Fiat group), Harald Wester, adding that the North America, "the market now more 'in trouble', is confirmed as our largest market with 2,400 cars delivered in the first 11 months (+4%).
Wester then claimed that "the second largest market and 'Italy with 779 units' (+24%)" followed by "the United Kingdom with 657 (+41%), Germany with 550 (+18%), Japan with 530 ( +22%) and China with 323 (+74%). The manager also mentioned the 550 units' sold in Asia and Oceania (+76%), the 370 Eastern Europe (+50%) and 466 of the Middle East and Africa (+60%).
As for 2009, Wester said that "you are doing the necessary planning, even if it 'absolutely impossible to give precise numbers, and then sail overnight from quarter to quarter. Pressed by reporters on the effects of economic crisis on the automotive world , the CEO of Maserati stated that "saying that we will close 2008 with about 8,500 sales, I believe that an estimate of -15/20% drop in the global automotive market, if demand does not recover, it could be very close to reality '. We are suffering more 'or less like the other segments. "
Wester, and also stressed that "for now" and not 'planned no layoffs for the Maserati, even in the face of a crisis "never seen" as the current one, has more' repeatedly stressed that "in 2008, but the last three months, 'a record year for Maserati, the best year in the history of the house. Despite the crisis, and' went well. The objectives were between 8500 and 9000 together 'and we get even the low end . I do not complain for 2008 and 'strasuccesso a year but the last months. "
Finally Wester stated that the next model of the Maserati will be 'a spider and the ability' of the company with the necessary flexibility to respond 'to market needs, moreover, "the success of 2008 gives us' a certainty: the quality work 'and the performance and' was appreciated by the market and therefore the product there '. "
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This was stated at the Bologna Motor Show, at the Maserati (Fiat group), Harald Wester, adding that the North America, "the market now more 'in trouble', is confirmed as our largest market with 2,400 cars delivered in the first 11 months (+4%).
Wester then claimed that "the second largest market and 'Italy with 779 units' (+24%)" followed by "the United Kingdom with 657 (+41%), Germany with 550 (+18%), Japan with 530 ( +22%) and China with 323 (+74%). The manager also mentioned the 550 units' sold in Asia and Oceania (+76%), the 370 Eastern Europe (+50%) and 466 of the Middle East and Africa (+60%).
As for 2009, Wester said that "you are doing the necessary planning, even if it 'absolutely impossible to give precise numbers, and then sail overnight from quarter to quarter. Pressed by reporters on the effects of economic crisis on the automotive world , the CEO of Maserati stated that "saying that we will close 2008 with about 8,500 sales, I believe that an estimate of -15/20% drop in the global automotive market, if demand does not recover, it could be very close to reality '. We are suffering more 'or less like the other segments. "
Wester, and also stressed that "for now" and not 'planned no layoffs for the Maserati, even in the face of a crisis "never seen" as the current one, has more' repeatedly stressed that "in 2008, but the last three months, 'a record year for Maserati, the best year in the history of the house. Despite the crisis, and' went well. The objectives were between 8500 and 9000 together 'and we get even the low end . I do not complain for 2008 and 'strasuccesso a year but the last months. "
Finally Wester stated that the next model of the Maserati will be 'a spider and the ability' of the company with the necessary flexibility to respond 'to market needs, moreover, "the success of 2008 gives us' a certainty: the quality work 'and the performance and' was appreciated by the market and therefore the product there '. "
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