市场日趋国际化 过去几十年由于汽车工业趋向国际化,英国主要汽车制造厂——被外国汽车公司收购。例如Rover先由宝马收购后,因经营不佳,陆续出售各厂,最后由Phoenix集团接手。 以产值来看,1999年英国汽车摩托车工业总零售额约625亿英镑,其中新汽车销售占41.4％,而旧汽车则为31.2％。进出口方面,出口额以德国占19％最高,美国12％,意大利及法国各占8.5％。在汽车摩托车零部件市场方面1999年市场总额约154.8亿英镑,比1997年增 The market is increasingly internationalized. In the past few decades, as the automotive industry has become more international, the major UK car manufacturers have been acquired by foreign car companies. For example, after Rover was first acquired by BMW, the plants were sold one after another due to poor operations, and the Phoenix Group took over. In terms of output value, the total retail sales of the UK’s automobile and motorcycle industry in 1999 was approximately 62.5 billion pounds, of which 41.4% were sales of new cars and 31.2% were old cars. In terms of imports and exports, exports accounted for 19% of the highest in Germany, 12% in the United States, and 8.5% in Italy and France. In the automobile and motorcycle parts market, the total market value was approximately 15.48 billion pounds in 1999, which was higher than that in 1997.