The automotive industry designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells motor vehicles, and is one of the world's most important economic sectors by revenue.

The term automotive industry usually does not include industries dedicated to automobiles after delivery to the customer, such as repair shops and motor fuel filling stations.

Contents

• 1 History
• 2 Economy
• 3 World motor vehicle production
  • 3.1 By year
  • 3.2 By country
  • 3.3 By manufacturer
• 4 Company relationships
• 5 Top vehicle manufacturing groups <by volume>
  • 5.1 Notes
• 6 Minor automotive manufacturers
• 7 See also
• 8 References
• 9 External links

Verb

makes

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of make.

   Green traffic lights look white to me, which makes them hard to distinguish from streetlights from far away. - First Usenet use via Google Groups, 9 May 1981 00:31:59-PDT, CSVAX.halbert at Berkeley

makes

1. Plural form of make.

   I would vote against a net.auto.bmw. Problems/comments regarding all makes are of interest, to me anyway. - net.auto.bmw, Aug 19 1983, 9:49 am, Joe Pfeiffer

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