At the start of 2014, I made a number of predictions related to the automotive world, and promised to revisit them at year end. You can see the results here. With that in mind, we're playing again in 2015. As always, feel free to ridicule me if I'm wrong.
-GM will announce that it is closing the Oshawa plant, once its obligation to the Canadian government expires in 2016. Not only will this allow them to shift volume products to the United States and other lower-cost locations, but it allows them to avoid having to re-negotiate their contract with Canadian labor union Unifor, which also expires in 2016.
-The Honda HR-V will sell 65k units in 2015. It could sell more, but a late Q1 launch and stringent QC checks to avoid the debacle of the Fit launch at Celaya will hamper it
– The Mazda6 diesel will not arrive in 2015.
-The Toyota Tacoma will continue to reign as the top compact pickup, outselling the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon.
-The new Ford GT will be built by Multimatic. The entire run will be 300 units and it will cost $300,000.
If any of the B&B want to play along, submit your predictions below. We'll revisit them in a year and see what came to pass.
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