China automakers see slower growth ahead (Reuters)

GENEVA (Reuters) - Car sales in Europe are at the low end of expectations and the market is likely to remain shaky for at least five years as the region implements austerity measures to cut its debts, industry executives warned on Tuesday.

BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese car makers' sales in China

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's massive car market may still be young, but the auto industry CEOs descending on Beijing this week will see first hand that it's also growing up fast. The Beijing auto show starts on Monday at a time when China's auto market has begun softening after a decade of breakneck growth. The days when car sales could surge 46 percent in one year - as they did in 2009 - are gone, say many industry executives and analysts. Most see growth falling off to an average of 7-8 percent this decade. ...

BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese car makers' sales in China in the first three months of the year have yet to recover fully from last year's slump, and foreign rivals are capitalizing in a market expecting 7 percent growth in 2013.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Used car sales in China grew faster than new car sales

Automakers in China are bracing for another year of tepid single-digit growth in 2013, weighed down by sluggish demand for Japanese cars amid a diplomatic row between the two regional neighbors and government measures intended to restrict traffic in bigger cities.

It's nearly two decades into the age of Internet car shopping, but despite the information explosion, most buyers don't have a clue. In fact, at least one shopping expert argues, neither do some of the online services that a lot of people count on to guide them toward the best price for the new cars they crave.