{"id":150844,"date":"2025-12-18T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/?post_type=news&#038;p=150844"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:57:20","slug":"avtovyrobnyky-nimechchyny-perezhyvayut-najbilshyj-obval-za-ostanni-15-rokiv","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/news\/novosti\/avtovyrobnyky-nimechchyny-perezhyvayut-najbilshyj-obval-za-ostanni-15-rokiv\/","title":{"rendered":"German automakers face their biggest slump in the past 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"69\" data-end=\"265\">Germany\u2019s automotive industry is currently experiencing its most difficult quarter in the last 15 years. This is according to an analysis by the consulting firm EY, reported by the tabloid BILD.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"267\" data-end=\"388\">From July to September, the operating profit of Volkswagen, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz collapsed by 76% to just \u20ac1.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"390\" data-end=\"500\">These figures are the lowest since 2009. At the same time, overall revenue and sales remain relatively stable.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"502\" data-end=\"592\">However, no other country with a major automotive industry has recorded such weak results.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"594\" data-end=\"858\">China has proven to be particularly painful: sales there fell by 9%, and China\u2019s share of total sales dropped from a previous 39% to 29%. In China, premium models are selling worse, and in the electric vehicle segment buyers are increasingly choosing local brands.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"860\" data-end=\"956\">In Germany, companies including Bosch, Mercedes, and Volkswagen have already announced job cuts.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"958\" data-end=\"1021\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">EY considers these measures painful but ultimately unavoidable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":150846,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-150844","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/150844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=150844"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=150844"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=150844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}