That's far ahead of the 11 percent that analysts were forecasting at the end of 2010.
"There was no spying," said Leo Abruzzese, director of global forecasting at the Economist Intelligence Unit.
This is emotional forecasting at its finest, something parents do all the time.
"Although print is declining publishers have never been read by more people," said Jonathan Barnard, head of forecasting at ZenithOptimedia.
"It has been a record year for TV advertising as a whole," said Jonathan Barnard, head of forecasting at ZenithOptimedia.
"Cars are consumer products, and the consumer is fickle," Mike Omotoso, the senior manager of global powertrain forecasting at J. D. Power & Associates, said.
Nonetheless, the group's pharmacy managers are forecasting at least ten-per-cent increases in their prescription-drug spending in the upcoming year.
"That type of uncertainty is also unsettling to customers," said Mike Omotoso, a senior manager of forecasting at LMC Automotive, a market research firm.
In the Mini's wake, automakers are following its high-design formula, said Jeff Schuster, senior vice president for forecasting at LMC Automotive, a research firm.
That prediction assumes "we don't fall off the fiscal cliff," said Vincent Letang, executive vice president and director for global forecasting at Magna Global.
He concluded by forecasting at length about the peace that will prevail with the appearance of the religious savior awaited by many faiths.
