This updated, fourth edition of the global transmissions report reviews the key market drivers for automotive transmissions and represents the latest reporting and analysis of transmissions technology.

This report will give you an insight into the trends for manual and conventional automatic transmissions and innovative transmissions. We also take a look at the long term prospects of hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles and the electric traction effect on the transmission market.

Whilst the report follows the same format as the third edition, all forecasts and manufacturer profiles have been overhauled and any major changes in the transmissions sector have been included.

You can expect the same detail and depth of analysis in this report as in our best selling third edition.

The author of both reports has been highly praised by his peers and readers on countless occasions. Amongst his accolades is the Pierre Dreyfus Award as UK Motoring Journalist of the Year in 2002. Despite numerous demanding clients, including The Economist Intelligence Unit, the Financial Times, Automotive Engineer, just-auto.com, European Automotive Design, Motor Industry Management, he continues to work as a journalist, translator and TV broadcaster.


This report will provide you with the following data:
* Total vehicle production by area (includes cars, light trucks and LCVs), 2002-2014 (000s)
* Manual transmission market shares and volumes by area, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)
* Automatic transmission market shares and volumes by area, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)
* CVT market shares and volumes by area, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)
* AMT (including twin-clutch) market shares and volumes by area, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)
* All innovative automatics market shares and volumes, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)


Extract from the report - Chapter 1 Background and basic requirements

The overall market

Neglecting the relatively small demand for reconditioned units, the size of the new vehicle market determines the size of the transmissions market. Worldwide sales of light-duty vehicles - passenger cars, SUVs, MPVs, light trucks and commercial vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes maximum gross vehicle weight (MGVW) - amounted to over 64.492m in 2005. The vast majority of these vehicles (the exceptions being hybrids and battery-electric vehicles with partial or totally electric traction) had basically similar transmission requirements, markedly different from those for the heavy commercial vehicles mainly used for freight haulage.

It is accepted that vehicle production worldwide will continue to grow, although in present circumstances (as at January 2007) forecasts of growth in the fully developed markets are understandably being revised down to the point where growth out to 2014 is likely to be moderate at best. Between 2005 and 2014, light duty vehicle manufacturing growth (in units) is forecast as 11.9% in Japan, 5.6% in the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) and 7% in the pre-expansion EU15. In the rapidly developing markets of Asia, and above all in China, the picture is conversely one of extremely rapid growth. Here, our forecast is for no less than 172% growth in China - from an already considerable base - and 50.5% in India, with 39.2% growth foreseen also for South Korea, over the same period. Forecasts prepared for this report, and shown in Table 1, taking existing political and economic uncertainties into account, suggest a world market for private passenger and light commercial vehicles of 85.1m by 2014, compared with 57.8m in 2002.

Chapter 1 Background and basic requirements
Requirement: the need for transmission
Overall solutions
The overall market
Changes to methods of analysis
Fast-growing automatic share
Continuing manual popularity
…but the automatic will win ground
Evolution of the conventional automatic
The technical alternatives

Chapter 2 Manual transmissions
The market for manual transmissions
The main trends
Clutches
Manual gearboxes
Manual gearbox manufacture and supply
Manual transmissions: future market prospects

Chapter 3 Conventional automatic transmissions
The market for conventional automatics
The main trends
Novel kinematics
Automatic transmission manufacture and supply
North American situation
Antonov
Audi
BMW
DaimlerChrysler
Fiat Auto
Ford
General Motors (GM)
Honda
Mitsubishi
Nissan-JATCO
PSA Peugeot Citroën
Renault
Toyota-Aisin AW
Volkswagen Group
ZF
Conventional automatic transmissions – future market prospects

Chapter 4 New types of automatic transmission
The market for new types of automatic transmission
The main trends
Continuously-variable transmissions (CVTs)
Infinitely variable transmissions (IVTs)
Automated manual transmissions (AMTs)
New types of automatic transmission: manufacture and supply
Audi
BMW
Borg-Warner
Robert Bosch
DaimlerChrysler
Fiat Auto
Ford
General Motors
Honda
Mitsubishi
Nissan-JATCO
PSA Peugeot Citroën
Renault
Ricardo
Subaru (Fuji Heavy Industry)
Torotrak
Toyota-Aisin AW
Valeo
Volkswagen
Volvo
Xtrac
ZF
Innovative transmissions – future market prospects

Chapter 5 The long-term prospect
A reducing need?
Hybrid vehicles
Electric vehicles
Electric traction effect on the transmission market

Chapter 6 Downstream of the gearbox
Other transmission components
Control of torque distribution

List of tables
Table 1: Total vehicle production by area (includes cars, light trucks and LCVs), 2002-2014 (000s)
Table 2: Manual transmission market shares and volumes by area, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)
Table 3: Automatic transmission market shares and volumes by area, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)
Table 4: CVT market shares and volumes by area, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)
Table 5: AMT (including twin-clutch) market shares and volumes by area, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)
Table 6: All innovative automatics market shares and volumes, 2002-2014 (% and 000s)