Ask The Best And Brightest: The Worst Prediction Of The Year?

Bertel Schmitt
by Bertel Schmitt

As noted by Ed Niedermeyer, “it’s that time of year: the media dead zone between Christmas and the New Year, when traditional “news” and “content” gets laid aside in favor of lists of things that happened last year and might happen next year.”

So instead of making more predictions, let’s look for the absolutely worst, most awful, epic fail prediction of the year (please with source). Here is my current favorite:

“China is now the world’s largest passenger-car market. By 2105, J.D. Power expects passenger car sales to hit 13.5 million in China.”

Brought to you by The Globe and Mail, all the way from Toronto.

Bertel Schmitt
Bertel Schmitt

Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.

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  • Skor Skor on Dec 30, 2010

    "The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others." Thus spake Carathustra

  • Dastanley Dastanley on Dec 30, 2010

    Jack Baruth's penis falls off. Just kidding. :-) We love ya and your writing man!

  • FleetofWheel FleetofWheel on Dec 30, 2010

    "Toyota is a large car company with a high level of sales, ergo they will falter and fail just like GM." Except that they are based in Japan, have different management methodologies, different cultural perspective, way higher brand equity, non-UAW anchors. Most of all, they have a vastly higher market capitalization in the real world. But other than that, Toyota is just like (old) GM. Even though Toyota beat old GM until old GM went into a govt diapered bankruptcy.

  • Panzerfaust Panzerfaust on Dec 31, 2010

    (2009) General Motors claims the Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric vehicle will get at least 230 mpg in the city when it hits the road late next year (2010). (2010) Popular Mechanics calculates a 33 mile average EV mode range, and between 32 and 36 MPG in CS mode. C&D claims between 26 and “the upper 30s” for EV range in miles, and 35 MPG for CS mode.

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