Global car market to grow 2 percent in 2015: Renault-Nissan CEO

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[March 02, 2015]  BARCELONA (Reuters) - The global car market is on course to achieve growth this year of 2 percent, Renault-Nissan Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn told Reuters on Monday, confirming an earlier estimate.

"I think for 2015, we said the market is going to be in a moderate growth - 2 percent," Ghosn said in an interview on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

"We didn't change our opinion: We have some good news, we have some bad news, but they all compensate each other so we are still on a trend of 2 percent," he said referring to the company as a whole.

Even though growth in Asia is expected to help offset a sharp fall in Russia, that rate would mark a slowdown from 2014 when the global car market saw growth of about 3.5 percent.

(Reporting by Eric Auchard and Leila Abboud; writing by Leigh Thomas)

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