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Introduction

This databook shows how the light vehicle aftermarket has developed and is forecast to evolve in the next 5 years. It quantifies the size and segmentation of the market. The report details the market dynamics for key fast moving aftermarket products by product family (tyres, service parts, wear and tear parts, mechanical parts, consumables and accessories, and crash repair).

Scope

*Value of the aftermarket at retail prices, both for “”parts only”" and for “”parts and labour”" (i.e. including fitting charges)

*Value of aftermarket by product family – tyres; service parts; wear & tear parts; mechanical parts; consumables / accessories; crash repair parts

*Market volume by product family along with replacement rates

Highlights

In an increasingly competitive aftermarket, review the prospects for growth in the market. Understand how market volume and value for key products are forecast to evolve.

Reasons to Purchase

*Discover quantitative trends affecting the market, including changes in market size, volumes and values by product, and shifts in replacement rates

*Understand the future direction of the market with reliable historical data and full five year forecasting

Table of Contents :

OVERVIEW 1
Catalyst 1
Summary 1
INTRODUCTION 7
Reasons to purchase 7
IRISH AUTOMOTIVE AFTERMARKET – OVERVIEW 10
Aftermarket overview, 2004–14 10
Aftermarket retail value by product family, 2004–14 12
IRISH AUTOMOTIVE AFTERMARKET – PRODUCT ANALYSIS 16
Tyres value and volume analysis 16
Service parts value and volume analysis 20
Wear and tear parts value and volume analysis 27
Mechanical parts value and volume analysis 35
Consumables and accessories value and volume analysis 41
Crash repair parts value and volume analysis 49
APPENDIX 57
Further reading 57
How to contact experts in your industry 57

LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Automotive aftermarket overview, Ireland, parts value (€m) and labor value (€m), 2004–14 10
Figure 2: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, value by product family (€m), 2004–08 12
Figure 3: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, value by product family (€m), 2009–14 14
Figure 4: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, tyres value (€m) and volume (units, 000s), 2004–08 16
Figure 5: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, tyres value (€m) and volume (units, 000s), 2009–14 18
Figure 6: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, service parts value by product type (€m), 2004–08 20
Figure 7: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, service parts value by product type (€m), 2009–14 22
Figure 8: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, service parts volume by product type (units, 000s), 2004–08 24
Figure 9: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, service parts volume by product type (units, 000s), 2009–14 26
Figure 10: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, wear and tear parts value by product type (€m), 2004–08 27
Figure 11: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, wear and tear parts value by product type (€m), 2009–14 29
Figure 12: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, wear and tear parts volume by product type (units, 000s), 2004–08 31
Figure 13: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, wear and tear parts volume by product type (units, 000s), 2009–14 33
Figure 14: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, mechanical parts value by product type (€m), 2004–08 35
Figure 15: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, mechanical parts value by product type (€m), 2009–14 37
Figure 16: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, mechanical parts volume by product type (units, 000s), 2004–08 39
Figure 17: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, mechanical parts volume by product type (units, 000s), 2009–14 40
Figure 18: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, consumables and accessories value by product type (€m), 2004–08 41
Figure 19: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, consumables and accessories value by product type (€m), 2009–14 43
Figure 20: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, consumables and accessories volume by product type (units, 000s), 2004–08 45
Figure 21: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, consumables and accessories volume by product type (units, 000s), 2009–14 47
Figure 22: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, crash repair parts value by product type (€m), 2004–08 49
Figure 23: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, crash repair parts value by product type (€m), 2009–14 51
Figure 24: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, crash repair parts volume by product type (units, 000s), 2004–08 53
Figure 25: Automotive aftermarket, Ireland, crash repair parts volume by product type (units, 000s), 2009–14 55

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In many ways, hydrogen is the ideal fuel. It can deliver lots of energy when it burns, and its clean. Burn hydrogen and you get water instead of the gunk that comes out of a car’s tailpipe. It would be great to run cars on hydrogen. But there are problems. Storing large quantities of hydrogen can be hard, and the stuff can be volatile in an accident – remember the Hindenberg? Even so, there is a safe way to use hydrogen to power cars today. And it works with most of the cars on the road right now.

The key to building a hydrogen powered car today is to create a hydrogen-gasoline hybrid. Instead of getting all the car’s power from hydrogen, you burn a bit of hydrogen with the gasoline to increase the car’s fuel efficiency and reduce the amount of pollution created. It isn’t a completely hydrogen powered car, but a system like this is surely a great first step toward increasing your gas mileage (thereby reducing the use of fossil fuels), protecting the environment, and saving some serious money on gasoline costs. We’ll talk more about these benefits in a minute, but first, let’s talk about where we’re going to get the hydrogen to do all this.

Where Does the Hydrogen Come From?

We already talked about how hydrogen can be difficult to store and explosive under the wrong circumstances. So to make hydrogen powered cars practical, we need a way to store hydrogen that’s safe and efficient for use in cars. Scientists are working on various proposals like hydrogen fuel cells and special tanks made with nanotech materials that can safely and compactly store masses of hydrogen. But there is another way.

Hydrogen is stored all around us in vast quantities. There is even a mass of it inside our bodies. It’s locked up in water. Every molecule of water consists of one atom of oxygen and two atoms of hydrogen. In the form of water, hydrogen is easy to store and certainly won’t explode in an accident. All we need is a way to get the hydrogen out of the water when we need it. To do that, we use electrolysis.

Electrolysis uses electricity to break down water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen atoms. It’s a common, well-understood process that you probably experimented with in high school science class. Now using electrolysis to generate enough hydrogen to provide all the power for a car as it is needed isn’t practical. But generating a smaller amount of hydrogen that can be mixed with the gasoline to improve a car’s performance is possible. As a matter of fact, you can buy a kit to convert your own family sedan into a hydrogen powered car today.

Now that we know how this is possible, let’s get back to the benefits of actually making this modification.

The Benefits of A Hydrogen Powered Car

There are three main benefits to a hydrogen powered car (aside from the coolness of it all). Once again, they are:

* Greater fuel efficiency

* Cleaner exhaust

* Reduced costs for fuel

Greater fuel efficiency comes from burning the hydrogen along with the gasoline. Reports claim as much as a 40% increase. Imagine getting 40% more miles per gallon from your car!

Because the hydrogen burns so cleanly while increasing the car’s mileage, a hydrogen powered car pollutes less. While this issue isn’t in the front of everyone’s minds in this time of high gas prices, less pollution is always a good idea.

Finally, with gas prices hitting record highs and predictions of new records to come, the significantly increased mileage of a hydrogen powered car means big savings on fuel costs.

With gas prices skyrocketing and thousands of hydrogen-gasoline conversions on the worlds roads, isn’t it time for you to start thinking about turning your automobile into a hydrogen powered car?

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A sports car can be referred to as an automobile specifically intended for performance driving. Almost all sports cars are rear-wheel drive, possess two seats, two doors, and are intended for accurate handling, acceleration, and aesthetics. A sports car mainly aims at high-class road handling, braking, maneuverability, low weight, and high power, and not passenger space, comfort, and fuel saving.

Sports cars come under either luxurious or spartan, but the compelling aspect is the driving mechanical performance. Drivers consider brand name and the related racing reputation and history as important pointers of sporting versatility, but some brands, even though they do not indulge in racing or constructs racing cars, is also widely respected.

A car may be classified as a sporting automobile even if it is not a sports car. Performance alterations of common, production cars, such as sport compacts, sports sedans, muscle cars, hot hatches and other cars similar to these generally are not sports cars, still share characteristics owned by sports cars. Sometimes, performance cars of all compositions are classified as Sports cars, or, often, as performance cars.

A sports car does not need a big, powerful engine, even though a lot of them do have them. Some traditional sports cars do not possess powerful engines, but were popular for excellent handling because of its light weight, a well-engineered, balanced chassis, and modern suspension. On complex and compressed roads, automobile like them achieve more efficiency than a heavier, more powerful luxury car with less flexibility.

As a result of North American safety regulations, a lot of sports cars are not in the market for sale or use in the United States and Canada. In the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Middle Eastern market (e.g. UAE), an adjustable attitude towards small-volume specialist manufacturers has helped companies to flourish. The drive train and engine layout decide the handling features of an automobile, and is the core to the design of a sports car.

For sports cars of any generation the front-engine, rear-wheel drive train layout (FR layout) is common. This configuration has lasted the test of time longer in sports cars compared to mainstream automobiles. For achieving of better handling and weight distribution, other formats have been developed. The RMR layout is a commonly feature seen only in sports cars – the motor is centre-mounted in the chassis (nearer to and behind the driver), and supports only the rear wheels. High-performance sports car and supercar manufacturers always show a liking to this layout. A lot of modern cars, specifically grand tourers, also employ a FMR layout, with the motor placed between the front axle and the firewall.

Only a few manufacturers still employ the rear-engine, rear-wheel drive layout (RR layout). The motor has well spread out weight across the wheels, and this delivers exceptional traction, but is not advisable, as the engine’s weight is not between the two axles; the vehicle is badly balanced, thus, many early vehicles handled errantly. However with the continuous modifications to the design, added with the engineering developments and support of electronic driving i.e. computerized traction-stability control, the manufacturers have been able to fight against inherent weaknesses in the design. Sports cars continue to be an irresistible attraction for car fanatics all over the world.

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We need to clearly know what we mean by this class of vehicles. Luxury, top-class cars are considered styled, luxurious automobiles aimed at the comfort and satisfaction of its owner or driver, dispensing with passenger space, cargo capacity and other practical concerns for the achievement of style.

The luxury, top-class cars are very costly and their price range is above Rs 20 lakhs. Hence, these cars are affordable and are chosen by high income group.

Luxury, top-class cars have the capacity to carry a maximum of 6 passengers. The companies such as- BMW, Daimler Chrysler, Porsche, Rolls Royce manufacture these cars and companies such as -Aston Martin and General Motors are still planning to dish out their models in the market under this segment.

A car may be classified as a luxury automobile even if it is not a luxury, top class car. Performance alterations of common, production cars, such as luxury compacts, luxury, top class sedans, muscle cars, hot hatches and other cars similar to these generally are not luxury, top class cars, still share characteristics owned by luxury, top class cars.

Sometimes, performance cars of all compositions are classified as luxury, top class cars, or, often, as performance cars.

A luxury, top class car does not need a big, powerful engine, even though a lot of them do have them. Some traditional cars of this category do not possess powerful engines, but were popular for excellent handling because of their light weight, a well-engineered, balanced chassis, and modern suspension. On complex and compressed roads, automobiles like them achieve more efficiency than a heavier, more powerful luxury car with less flexibility.

As a result of North American safety regulations, a lot of luxury, top class cars are not in the market for sale or use in the United States and Canada. In the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Middle Eastern market (e.g. UAE), an adjustable attitude towards small-volume specialist manufacturers has helped companies to flourish.

The drive train and engine layout decide the handling features of an automobile, and is the core to the design of a luxury, top class car.

It is common for luxury, top class cars of any generation to have the following features: the front-engine, rear-wheel drive train layout (FR layout). This configuration has lasted the test of time longer in such cars compared to mainstream automobiles.

For achieving of better handling and weight distribution, other formats have been developed. The RMR layout is a common feature seen only in luxury, top class cars – the motor is centre-mounted in the chassis (nearer to and behind the driver), and supports only the rear wheels. High-performance cars of this type and supercar manufacturers always show a liking to this layout.

A lot of modern cars, specifically grand tourers, also employ a FMR layout, with the motor placed between the front axle and the firewall.

Only a few manufacturers still employ the rear-engine and rear-wheel drive layout (RR layout). The motor has well spread out weight across the wheels, and this delivers exceptional traction, but is not advisable, as the engine’s weight is not between the two axles, the vehicle is badly balanced. Thus, many early vehicles handled errantly.

However with the continuous modifications to the design, added with the engineering developments and support of electronic driving i.e. computerized traction-stability control, the manufacturers have been able to fight against inherent weaknesses in the design. Luxury, top class cars continue to be an irresistible attraction for car fanatics all over the world.

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A hydrogen fuel cell car enables you to run your car with water as fuel. It is not at all difficult to transform the car that u have now into a hydrogen car. All you would need is a few tools that are easily available at any hardware store. There are a few simple techniques that would enable you to have a hydrogen car.

It does not take long to set up a hydrogen fuel cell car. It does not even involve many modifications in the engine of the car. All you need to do is to use the electrical system of the car and some electrode wires and the engine will be empowered to transform water into hydrogen on which the car will run. Needless to say your car will benefit tremendously when you switch from using gasoline to water as your fuel. The performance of the engine will be enhanced and your mileage too would improve by as much as 100%.

Your engine will no longer release carbon emissions. Instead it will release oxygen which is the by product of using water. Using such a car would definitely lead to a healthy and safe environment.

It must however be noted that it might not be possible to run your car entirely on hydrogen. It might be that you have to run your car on a mixture of hydrogen and gasoline. You must however try to use more of hydrogen and less of gasoline. This will enable your engine to run much more smoothly and for longer distances and with the least harmful emissions to the environment.

With pollution levels rising at an alarming rate, it is necessary that every car owner switch over to a hydrogen fuel cell car. Increase in pollution has lead to harmful diseases and has also brought down the quality of life. This has also lead to global warming which looms threateningly.

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