1. Industry Outlook New motor vehicle sales in Australia had been increasing steadily from 1991 to 1998, from 514,566 to 807,669 units respectively, when it dropped in 1999 to 786,845 units (Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources, 2002). The drop in sales figure from 1998 to 1999 could be attributed to the global economic crisis in which World Bank (1998) had predicted that “developing countries will be hardest hit by the economic and social costs of global slowdown in 1998-2000”. In year 2000 however, sales figure rose …showed first 75 words of 5157 total…

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