AUTOMOTIVE
The automotive companies are those in the automotive industry field which produce and sell vehicles.
Recently all companies had to deal with globalization, trying to be competitive in a worldwide automotive market.
The reason some great brands got together is to create an economy of scale, others have been bought by bigger groups.
Nevertheless there still are little companies on the market which are almost like manufacturing companies and work their way through specialization. It is mostly sport cars companies and they mostly target special markets.
In the first century of automotive many companies had to leave the market, among them were even some of the ones that influenced the 4 wheels with aesthetic and mechanical innovation.
The most active producers are in the US, in Western Europe ( Germany, France , Italy) and in East Asia (Japan and South Korea). Also the Russian , Chinese and Indian companies started to join the global automotive market, even though their production is still fairly limited and looks mostly at the assembly of patented products and the construction of models which are mostly to be used in the internal market.