What LMC Automotive does

LMC Automotive is a UK-based, privately-held automotive market intelligence and forecasting firm founded in 1980 and headquartered in Oxford. The company delivers subscription-based intelligence on global light vehicle production, sales, powertrain fitment, and hybrid/electric vehicle trends, serving automotive OEMs, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, consultancies, financial institutions, service providers, and energy/materials companies. Its platform covers more than 95% of global light vehicle demand through 13-year forecasts at OEM, brand, segment, model, and derivative levels, supported by 290+ proprietary datasets built on primary research and validated by a network of over 2,000 industry experts.

The platform is delivered via a single annual subscription with quote-based enterprise pricing and a consultative "Request demo" sales motion. Underlying capabilities include predictive analytics, machine learning, an IoT projects database tracking 3,200 projects across 100+ countries, live data feeds covering 2,000+ companies, and "Ava" — an agentic AI research assistant that orchestrates workflows and delivers personalized insights. Marketing reaches automotive professionals through industry reports, webinars, and a curated "DECODED" newsletter, while a horizontal segmentation approach addresses use cases ranging from product planning and competitive intelligence to investment analysis and supply chain strategy. With 51-100 employees and 45 years of operating history, LMC Automotive operates as a mature, niche specialist rather than a venture-backed scale-up.

Name

LMC Automotive

Website

https://lmc-auto.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

LMC Automotive is a UK-based automotive market intelligence firm providing 13-year forecasts on global vehicle production, sales, powertrain, and electrification trends. It serves OEMs, suppliers, consultancies, financial institutions, and energy/materials companies via an AI-enhanced subscription platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Oxford

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Platform Subscription: Single digital subscription providing access to the data, tools, and insights platform with flexibility and configurable delivery. Subscription-based model with one subscription offering access to all features.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

LMC Automotive provides subscription-based automotive market intelligence centered on multi-year global forecasts of light vehicle production, sales, and powertrain fitment, including hybrid and electric drivetrains. Customers access these forecasts, proprietary datasets, an IoT projects database, and an agentic AI research assistant (Ava) through a single digital intelligence platform enhanced with predictive analytics and machine learning.

Product overview

No LMC Automotive-specific product information is present in the provided source data. The source (GlobalData's automotive industry page) describes GlobalData's own automotive intelligence platform offerings, not those of LMC Automotive.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• LMC Automotive Intelligence Platform Single annual subscription to a digital intelligence platform providing access to global automotive data, tools, and insights, including production, sales, powertrain, and electrification datasets, configurable dashboards, and visualization tools for automotive suppliers, OEMs, consultancies, financial organizations, and service providers.
• Global Light Vehicle Production 13-year forecast of global light vehicle production, with data by model generation, vehicle program, platform, bodystyle, and plant, including Start of Production (SOP) and End of Production (EOP) for existing and future platforms.
• Global Light Vehicle Sales Sales data at OEM, brand, segment, model line, and body derivative level, including market share and new model launches, with 13-year forecasts covering more than 95% of global demand.
• Global Light Vehicle Powertrain Fitment 8-year forecast of engine, transmission, and hybrid/electric drivetrain combinations fitted to each model generation, including battery and e-motor fitment details.
• Global Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Sales 13-year forecast of hybrid and electric drivetrain sales with analysis by segment, geographical market, EV type, volume, and share growth trajectory, including battery and e-motor details.
• IoT Projects Database Database tracking 3,200 IoT projects across over 100 countries for automotive innovation analysis.
• Industry Deep-Dive Reports Packaged industry deep-dive reports and company profiles available through LMC's store, including quarterly reports on tyre and rubber markets.

Quantifiable outcome

• 95%+ global demand coverage in light vehicle sales forecasts
• +2 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• J.D. Power: J.D. Power provides automotive market intelligence, forecasting, and consumer-driven sales analysis to OEMs, dealers, and financial clients, with comparable focus on light vehicle sales and product planning use cases.
• Cox Automotive: Cox Automotive (via Manheim, Kelley Blue Book, Autotrader) aggregates and analyzes used- and new-vehicle market data and serves OEMs, dealers, and financial institutions — competing for adjacent automotive intelligence wallet share.
• S&P Global Mobility: S&P Global Mobility (formerly IHS Markit Automotive) is the closest direct competitor, offering global light vehicle production, sales, and powertrain forecasts to overlapping OEM, supplier, and financial customers with comparable depth and forecast horizon.

Emerging players

• Wards Intelligence: Wards Intelligence, part of Informa, covers automotive production, powertrain, and EV data with a long industry heritage, competing for OEM, supplier, and consultancy buyers needing light vehicle forecasts.
• AutoForecast Solutions: AutoForecast Solutions specializes in light vehicle production forecasts by plant and platform, directly overlapping with LMC's core production dataset and competing for OEM/supplier product planning customers.
• Euromonitor International: Euromonitor offers automotive market sizing, consumer demand, and mobility forecasts as part of a broader cross-industry research platform, competing for strategy and consultancy buyers who might otherwise subscribe to LMC.
• Marklines: Marklines provides global automotive sales, production, and supplier intelligence with strong coverage of Asian OEMs and suppliers, competing for procurement, sourcing, and competitive-intelligence use cases.
• EV-Volumes: EV-Volumes specializes in electric vehicle sales, production, and battery demand forecasts, increasingly competing for the EV/powertrain wallet share that LMC serves with its hybrid and EV fitment data.

Broad incumbents

• GlobalData: GlobalData acquired LMC Automotive and operates an overlapping automotive intelligence platform serving OEMs, suppliers, and financial clients. It is both the parent/successor entity and a broad incumbent with substantially larger scale across multiple industries.
• Bloomberg Intelligence (Automotive): Bloomberg Intelligence covers the automotive sector with deep forecasts, EV adoption modeling, and OEM analysis as part of a broader cross-asset research platform, competing for financial-services and corporate-strategy buyers who might otherwise buy LMC.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/LMCAutomotive

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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