The Automotive Observatory, Mavel's statistic and forecast department, maintains an ongoing watch of worldwide trends in the automotive market.
It compiles documents and files that support key decision-makers in their strategies and action plans. Current products include:

• Worldwide production forecasts for automotive vehicles and engines model by model, plant by plant over the next 5 years
• Thematic studies focused on one country (example: China, Russia, India) or a specific technology (example: hybrid vehicles)

These studies are marketed as stand-alone products and/or used by Mavel as data input into the further studies.
This use of internal data enables Mavel to provide its customers with consistent figures as regards the number of models/engines as well as for given systems/parts.