Just-in-time auto industry news and analysis
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Taxi is outside, off to the airport for our trip to Mongolia, and a Gobi Desert tour with our great Mongolian friends.
Don’t expect any site updates until July 9, or thereabouts. The analysis of German BEV sales requires access to a server, no servers in yurts, so after July 9 it is.
We interrupt our self-imposed, server-caused reporting pause for the usual once-a-month ranking of world’s largest automakers. As you can see, it’s messy.
Perennial leader Toyota Group is down 4.5% for the year, mainly because at their Daihatsu mini-vehicle division matters got rocky in the wake of their testing scandal. Wordwide Daihatsu sales are down a whopping 55% y/y. Sales of core brands Toyota and Lexus were mostly unchanged for the year, but small Daihatsu hurts bigtime.
Sales of 3rd-ranked Hyundai Group also were mostly flat for the year.
And what about Volkswagen Group? Sorry, they are keeping their sales data to themselves. Volkswagen decided last month to go from a monthly to a quarterly reporting schedule, never a good sign. Kicking the can down the road probably beats cheating. Speaking of which: Last year, there were rumors flying around the VW hallwayradio that there might be cosmetic changes to the reporting of Chinese sales data.
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Looks like the server beast has been tamed and is compliant – so far. However, the Schmitto-sans will be in Mongolia all next week, and from what we’ve heard, connectivity in yurts in the Gobi Desert may leave something to be desired. Hence, we’ll rather keep the beast off until our return on 8/8.
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It had to happen: After a carefully planned move of the Dailykanban servers, everything was good to go by Sunday evening. Except by Monday morning, all servers had rolled over and were (pretty much) dead.
Dailykanban doesn’t just run from one server, it follows the belt-and-suspender principle, and runs from a bunch of servers, in all corners of the world. They talk to each other, and keep themselves entertained and in sync. In theory, at least.
Apparently, the master server was dinged during the move. All other servers happily updated from the master server, and contracted the same ding thing.
