ARTICLE: "Ghosn Hits The Accelerator: The Renault-Nissan CEO is fighting to keep pace in the U.S. and chasing Chinese and Indian customers," by David Kiley, BusinessWeek,, 12 May 2008, p. 048.

Key thing here is chart: motor vehicles per 1,000 population.

Saturated Old Core America (815), Germany (605), Japan (600) and France (595), compared with under-sold New Core Russia (220), Brazil (125), China (25) and India (25).

Guess where the global demand center on cars is this century? Old or New Core?

So guess where the innovation and move beyond gas combustion will occur?