Does the Motor Industry Have a Future?

While the motor vehicle will still be a major consumer durable by 1990—even though it may have a radicaly altered design and be powered by alternative fuels—it is less certain that the familiar manufacturers will still be around by then when a handful of not more than six giants could dominate world trade and not one of them British. According to management consultants Ronald Sewell & Associates in Bath, who have been conducting an investigation—directed by Professor Bhaskar—into the future of the motor industry, 1990 could see the demise of the British industry altogether and of Japan as a major world exporter.