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Beyond The Restructuring:
Will It Deliver A Sustainable Automotive Industry?

The Society of Automotive Analysts held its 2006 Automotive Outlook Conference at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center on Tuesday, January 10. It was held in conjunction with Press Week of the 2006 North American International Auto Show.

The conference’s theme - - served as the backdrop for perspectives and opinions offered by some of the industry’s leading experts. Panel topics and speakers follow.

Transcriptions of all speakers' comments - plus each panel's Q & A session - are available for review. Speaker PowerPoint presentations are also available (in PDF format), but only to SAA Members with registered user names and passwords. Don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader? Get it now!



Proceedings of SAA’s 18th Annual
Automotive Outlook Conference...
The Detroit Big Three Economists' Annual Reports
Mustafa Mohatarem Mustafa Mohatarem
General Motors Corporation
Bio
(54kb)
Transcript
(153kb)
Presentation
(235kb)
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick Ellen Hughes-Cromwick
Ford Motor Company
Bio
(195kb)
Transcript
(150kb)
Presentation
(411kb)
Van Jolissaint Van Jolissaint
DaimlerChrysler Corporation
Bio
(799kb)
Transcript
(148kb)
Presentation
(160kb)
Commercializing Innovation for Market Position and Profit
Dr. Jan Dannenberg Dr. Jan Dannenberg
Mercer Management Consulting - a Marsh & McLellan Company
Bio
(413kb)
Transcript
(146kb)
Presentation
(373kb)
Dr. Douglas Boike Dr. Douglas Boike
Mercer Management Consulting
- a Marsh & McLellan Company
Bio
(53kb)
Mercer Auto Study (1.15Mb)
Jim Gillette Jim Gillette
CSM Worldwide
Bio
(233kb)
Transcript
(147kb)
Presentation
(275kb)
Kevin McMahon Kevin McMahon
The Martec Group, Inc
Bio
(292kb)
Transcript
(141kb)
Presentation
(626kb)
Keynote Address
Jerry York Jerome B. "Jerry" York
Harwinton Capital Corporation
Bio
(50kb)
Keynote Address
(171kb)


2005 PRODUCTION FORECAST PRIZE WINNER...
Guess Who Guessed Best for 2005 !

The results are in, and one "Soothsayer Extraordinaire" stands out in predicting total calendar year 2005 production. As you may recall, we asked everyone who attended SAA's 2005 Automotive Outlook Conference to predict North American car and truck production for the coming year. Without further ado, the winner is:

CARLOS LOZANO SEPULVEDA, Metalsa S de RL, Apodaca, N.L. México

Carlos came closest to predicting the actual 16,994,655 units built in 2005. Carlos' carefully calculated estimate was 17,050,900 units, good enough to win the $500 prize.

The AVERAGE of all estimates was 16,558,081.

Congratulations to all who submitted their prescient prognostications!