MOTOR INDUSTRY (Financial Mail)

to boast there are 9m bicycles in the Chinese capital. That's nothing. There could soon be 800m vehicles on the roads of the world's emerging economic giant.

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BNZ Monthly Confidence Survey Results May 3 08 (Scoop.co.nz)

The BNZ monthly survey of Weekly Overview readers has revealed a small decline in pessimism for the second month in a row. A net 49% of respondents expect the economy to get worse over the coming year compared with 55% early in April and 62% in March.

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Car, truck sales slump by 7000 (Adelaide Now)

GRIM economic reality has finally caught up with the new car market, with most of the country's popular makes shedding sales in April.

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Car dealers blame confusion over VRT for 22% sales dip (Irish Examiner)

MOTOR dealers yesterday blamed the economic downturn and confusion over the Government’s Vehicle Road Tax (VRT) changes for last month’s 22% fall in new car sales.

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Used car prices going downhill: report (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News)

Used car prices will continue to weaken into the first half of 2009, the Bank of Nova Scotia forecast Wednesday.

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Assessments stun Richmond couple (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

J. Matthew Haynes Jr. can't understand how his Ford pickup could be worth more today than it was a year ago. Maybe the current value counts a full tank of fuel?

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Gas pains accepted by motorists (Windsor Star)

As gasoline prices rose as high as almost $1.25 per litre at Windsor gas bars over the weekend, most motorists canvassed by The Star seemed to have passed through the first four stages of grief, into the final stage, acceptance.

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