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CORONA VIRUS AND
THE CAR WORLD:
LOCKDOWN HITS NEW CAR SALES LATEST UPDATES: NEW CAR SALES FALL 88% IN FRANCE IN APRIL; LAMBORGHINI PREPARES TO RESUME PRODUCTION; HOW INDUSTRY IS AIDING CARE WORKERS.
work with government officials and trade unions to establish new safety protocols. The firm has also confirmed it will “present a new car in order to complete our model range” online on 7 May.
● Ferrari will begin its preparations to resume production at Maranello on Monday, launching what it calls its ‘installation lap’ programme. This will consist of safety training for employees who will be involved in car production, and will run.... MORE
Factories have been shuttered around the world, dramatic stock market falls have hit the value of virtually every car firm, vehicle sales have plummeted and most major motorsport events have been cancelled.
Friday 1 May: French new cars sales plummet, Italian supercar firms gear up to resume production.
● With lockdown restrictions in place near-worldwide for the whole of April, we’ve been expecting
new car sales to plummet - even compared to the sharp fall seen in March. That fear has been confirmed by new sales data from the French car industry body, the CCFA. They show that just 20,997 cars were sold in the country in April, an 88.8% decline on the 188,195 sales in April 2019.
The PSA Group sold 10,098 cars across its Citroën, DS, Opel and Peugeot brands, a fall of 84.4%. Group Renault (which includes Dacia and Alpine) sold 7148 new cars, a decline of 83.9%.
● Lamborghini is due to resume production at its Sant-Agata base on Monday 4 May, following
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