Internationalization
Part 1 automobile countries
The internationalization of the automobile production since 2000 - part 2 automakers
How the automakers internationalized the production
This second article shows how the 10 largest automobile manufacturers internationalized the world-wide automobile production from 2000 to 2010. The first article highlights the changes in regard to the 10 largest automobile countries.
The ranking of the 10 largest automakers and the changes since 2000
June 4th, 2012 - The 10 largest automakers produced 66.8% of all automobiles in 2010. Data for 2011 are not available by now.
The internationalization of production by these 10 largest automobile manufacturers changed their ranking among themselves fewer strongly than that of the automobile countries.
Six ranks remained unchanged (Nissan, Honda) or changed by one rank (GM, VOLKSWAGEN, Suzuki, and Renault). Toyota and Hyundai improved by 2 or 3 ranks, Ford and PSA decreased by three ranks.
- Source: Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d‘ Automobiles, Paris; www.oica.net. Market shares consider passenger cars, commercial vehicles, trucks and buses. Calculation of our own.
Behind these apparently moderate changes substantial efforts were made in order to internationalize the production.
The following diagrams compare the production shares of a manufacturer in the 10 strongest automobile countries between the years 2010 and 2000. If there is no production in one of the 10 countries, this country does not occur. Production locations, which do not belong to the 10 strongest countries, are subsumed to „Other“. All production shares combined result to 100% of the production of the manufacturer concerned.
We limit ourselves to the first five manufacturers and consider only Renault among ranks 6 to 10.
Toyota - production shares in Japan down, in China up
- Source: Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d‘ Automobiles, Paris; www.oica.net. Market shares consider passenger cars, commercial vehicles, trucks and buses. Calculation of our own.
The share of Toyota’s production in Japan sank from 70% to below 50%. China, in which Toyota did not produce in 2000, achieved 2010 a share of 9% of the world-wide Toyota production. The productions of Toyota automobiles in India, Brazil, Mexico and France kept or increased slightly their shares. Finally Toyota duplicated its production shares in the other countries that are not indicated here.
GM – pushed internationalization of production
- Source: Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d‘ Automobiles, Paris; www.oica.net. Market shares consider passenger cars, commercial vehicles, trucks and buses. Calculation of our own.
GM had been increasing its production shares in five countries within 10 years while reducing them drastically in the USA. 2010 GM produced more automobiles in China than in the USA. In this regard GM takes a single position among the 10 strongest automakers.
VOLKSWAGEN - priority China
- Source: Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d‘ Automobiles, Paris; www.oica.net. Market shares consider passenger cars, commercial vehicles, trucks and buses. Calculation of our own.
VOLKSWAGEN started production very early in China, so that in 2000 the share of the production in China in regard to the world-wide VW production consisted of already 6.2% - and thus as high as with no other among the 10 automakers. China still forms the priority of the internationalization because with exception of Brazil the production shares in Mexico, Spain and other countries sank.
Hyundai - internationalization in 2000 still zero
- Source: Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d‘ Automobiles, Paris; www.oica.net. Market shares consider passenger cars, commercial vehicles, trucks and buses. Calculation of our own.
In 2000 Hyundai produced its automobiles to 100% in South Korea. By 2010 the Hyundai production had already been internationalizing in China, USA, India and other countries while dividing the production share in South Korea almost into halves.
Ford – pushed internationalization like GM
- Source: Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d‘ Automobiles, Paris; www.oica.net. Market shares consider passenger cars, commercial vehicles, trucks and buses. Calculation of our own.
Ford had been forcing the internationalization of production like GM. The production share of China in 2010 is with 8.2% close to that with Mexico and noticeably lower than GM's with 26.7%. Also the production share of the USA had been declining from 51.9% to 33.9%, thus noticeably fewer than with GM.
Renault - internationalization into other countries
- Source: Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d‘ Automobiles, Paris; www.oica.net. Market shares consider passenger cars, commercial vehicles, trucks and buses. Calculation of our own.
Renault is internationalizing its production particularly into the countries of the European Union, which are subsumed as "Other" in the diagram. Renault did not produce in China but achieved in South Korea a production share from zero to 10.1% between 2000 and 2010. The production share in the homeland market France was divided more than into halves.
