Top global vehicle manufacturers – Ranked on 2003 global unit sales
Includes minivehicles, passenger cars and light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles and buses 2003 2002 2003 2002 Number of global global global global global vehicle vehicle vehicle vehicle automotive Rank Automaker Global headquarters Top global executive unit sales unit sales unit production unit production employees Subsidiaries with ownership 50% or greater 1 General Motors 300 Renaissance Center Richard Wagoner Jr. 8,594,605 8,550,258 8,244,000 8,277,000 326,000 Holden, Hummer, Opel, Vauxhall, Saab www.gm.com Detroit, MI 48243 chairman and CEO 2 Toyota Motor Corp. 1, Toyota-cho, Toyota City Fujio Cho 6,783,463 6,167,703 6,826,166 6,309,616 246,702 Daihatsu, Hino www.toyota.co.jp Aichi Prefecture, 471-8571, Japan president and CEO 3 Ford Motor Co. The American Road William Clay Ford Jr. 6,541,562 6,819,594* 6,720,000 6,973,000 350,321 Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover, www.ford.com Dearborn, MI 48121 chairman and CEO Volvo Car Corp. 4 Volkswagen AG** Werk Wolfsburg Bernd Pischetsrieder 5,015,911 4,996,179 5,020,733 5,023,264 336,843 Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, www.volkswagen.de 38436 Wolfsburg, Germany chairman and CEO Skoda, Seat 5 DaimlerChrysler AG Epplestrasse 225 Juergen E. Schrempp 4,355,800 4,540,400 4,264,700 4,471,900 362,063 Chrysler group, Freightliner, Mercedes-Benz, Setra, www.daimlerchrysler.com 70546 Stuttgart, Germany chairman and CEO Smart, Sterling, Thomas Built Buses, Western Star 6 PSA/Peugeot-Citroen SA 75 Avenue de la Grande Armee Jean-Martin Folz 3,286,100 3,267,500 3,309,100 3,262,100 199,900 Citroen, Peugeot www.psa-peugeot-citroen.com 75116 Paris, France chairman and CEO 7 Hyundai Automotive Group 231 Yangjae-Dong Chung Mong Koo 3,046,333 2,912,315 3,085,836 2,887,213 76,761 Hyundai Motor Co., Kia Motors www.hyundai-motor.com Seocho-Gu, Seoul 137-938, South Korea chairman and CEO 8 Nissan Motor Co. 17-1, Ginza 6-chome, Chuo-Ku Carlos Ghosn 2,968,357 2,735,932 2,957,757 2,693,818 127,625 www.nissan.co.jp Tokyo, 104-23, Japan president and CEO 9 Honda Motor Co. 1-1, 2 chome, Minami-Aoyama Takeo Fukui 2,910,000 2,830,000 2,968,316 2,900,787 126,900 www.honda.co.jp Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8556, Japan president and CEO 10 Renault SA 13-15 Quai Le Gallo Louis Schweitzer 2,388,958 2,403,975 2,385,087 2,343,954 130,740 Dacia, Renault-Samsung Motors www.renault-vi.com F-92513 Boulogne Billoncourt cedex, France chairman and CEO 11 Fiat S.p.A. Via Nizza 250 Giusseppe Morchio 1,989,921 2,125,277 2,079,800 2,159,936 123,863 Fiat Auto Holdings, Ferrari/Maserati, www.fiat.com 10126 Torino, Italy CEO Iveco 12 Suzuki Motor Co. 300 Takatsuka-cho, Hamamatsu-shi Osamu Suzuki 1,824,977 1,707,392 1,904,903 1,798,089 13,920 Maruti Udyog Ltd. www.globalsuzuki.com Shizuoka-ken, 432-8611, Japan chairman and CEO 13 Mitsubishi Motors Corp.† 5-33-8, Shiba, Minato-ku Yoichiro Okazaki 1,533,590 1,740,202 1,580,167 1,822,644 44,416 www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp Tokyo, 108-8410, Japan chairman, president and CEO 14 BMW Group** Petuelring 130 Helmut Panke 1,104,916 1,057,344 1,118,940 1,090,258 101,400 Mini, Rolls-Royce www.bmw.de/www.bmw.com 80788 Munich, Germany chairman 15 Mazda Motor Corp. 3-1 Shinchi, Fucho-cho Hisakazu Imaki 1,068,400 964,800* 1,041,905 773,798 36,167 www.mazda.co.jp Aki-gun, Hiroshima 730-91, Japan president and CEO 16 First Automobile Works*** Dongfen St. Zhu Yanfeng 861,439 571,061 865,692 569,037 126,000 www.faw.com Changchun, Jilin Province, P.R. China 13001 president 17 Shanghai Automotive*** 489 Weihai Rd. Hu Maoyuan 848,120 610,163 868,658 591,872 60,000 Industry Corp. Shanghai, P.R. China 200041 President 18 AutoVaz Yuzhnoye Shosse, 36, Togliatti V.V. Kadannikov 710,000 683,000 699,888 702,540 157,278 www.vaz.ru Samara Region, 445633, Russia chairman 19 Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. Subaru Building 7-2-1, Nishi-Shinjuku Kyoji Takenaka 544,235 554,911 548,422 541,018 27,816 Subaru www.subaru.co.jp Tokyo, 160-8316, Japan president and CEO 20 Isuzu Motors Ltd. 6-26-1 Minami-Oi Yoshinori Ida 510,514 456,119 512,381 455,615 18,765 www.isuzu.co.jp Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 104-8722, Japan president 21 Dongfeng Motor Corp.*** No. 747, Jianshe Road Miao Wei 469,160 414,923 472,975 417,659 80,000 Hankou, Wuhan, Hebei 430015 P.R. China Chairman 22 GM Daewoo Auto & Technology 199-1, Cheongcheon-Dong Bupyong-gu, Nick Reilly 392,398 285,449 400,597 286,401 8,906 Co. Ltd.†† Incheon, South Korea president and CEO 23 Tata Motors Ltd. Bombay House 24 Homi Mody St. Ratan N. Tata 288,947 209,327 285,483 209,746 22,254 www.tatamotors.com Mumbai, 400-001, India chairman 24 AutoGaz Nizhny Novgorod Dmitrii Strezhnev 216,035* 200,436* 202,943* 198,135* N.A. www.gaz.ru Russia general director 25 Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp.† 2-16-4, Konan, Minato-ku Wilfried Porth 179,952 – 183,046 – 16,000 www.mitsubishi-fuso.com Tokyo, 108-8285, Japan president and CEO 26 Volvo Truck Corp. SE-405 08 Goteburg Jorma Halonen 163,807 166,189 153,582 154,094* 75,740 Mack, RVI (Renault V.I. trucks) www.volvotruck.com Sweden president 27 Proton HICOM Industrial Estate BT3, P.O. Box 7100 N.A. 159,174 217,737 174,373 237,024 N.A. www.proton.com 40918 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia 28 SsangYong Motor Co. Ltd. 150-3 Chilkoi-Dong Pyungtaek-si Soh Jin Kwan 154,307 161,042 159,282 161,016 7,500 www.ssy.co.kr Kyunggi-Do, 459-050, South Korea president and CEO 29 MG Rover Group Ltd. P.O. Box 41, Lickey Road Kevin Howe 145,000 148,000 133,000 147,000 N.A. www.mg-rover.com Longbridge, Birmingham B31-2TB, UK CEO 30 Mahindra & Mahindra Gateway Building, Apollo Bunder Anand G. Mahindra 104,173 70,193 97,911 76,766 11,800 www.mahindraworld.com Mumbai, 400-001, India vice chairman and managing dir. 31 Paccar P.O. Box 1518 Mark A. Pigott 93,000 92,300 93,000 92,300 16,500 DAF, Kenworth, Leyland, Peterbilt, Foden www.paccar.com Bellevue, WA 98009 chairman and CEO 32 Navistar International Corp. 4201 Winfield Road Daniel C. Ustian 86,732 88,400* 85,136 86,000* 13,962 www.navistar.com Warrenville, IL 60555 chairman and CEO 33 Porsche AG Aktiengesellschaft Porscheplatz 1 Wendelin Wiedeking 66,803 55,124 73,284 57,004 10,699 www.porsche.com D-70435, Stuttgart, Germany president and CEO 34 MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Group Dachauer Street 667 Hakan Samuelsson 55,900 53,900 55,400 53,800 34,094 www.man-nutzfahrzeuge.de D-80995, Munich, Germany chairman 35 Scania SE 15187 Sodertalje Leif Ostling 50,794 44,669 51,276 45,145 29,112 www.scania.com 28342, Sweden president and CEO 36 Ashok Leyland Grindlays Centre, 19 Rajaji Salai R. Seshasayee 45,547 33,445 45,122 32,643 11,860 www.ashokleyland.com Chennai, 600 001, India managing director 37 Hindustan Motors Ltd. 6B, GST Road, St. Thomas Mount A. Sankara Narayanan 16,408 23,328 15,801 23,629 7,924 www.hindustanmotors.com Chennai, 600-016, India managing director 38 Eicher Motors Eicher House, 12 Commercial Complex S. Sandilya 14,063 11,305 13,965 11,513 925 www.eicherworld.com Greater Kailash, New Delhi, 110-048, India group chairman and CEO 39 Bajaj Tempo Ltd. Mumbai Pune Road, Akurdi Abhay Firodia 12,993 8,663 13,610 8,737 7,153 www.tempoindia.com Pune, 411-035, India chairman and managing dir.
Note: Global production includes units produced for sale by other manufacturers; sales data includes vehicles produced by other manufacturers; N.A. = information is not available *Automotive News estimate **Rolls-Royce ownership transferred to BMW in Jan. 2003 †Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus was spun off from Mitsubishi Motors Corp. in Jan. 2003 ***Includes double counting from manufacturer’s joint ventures ††Most assets purchased by General Motors and partners in Oct. 2002 Source: Automotive News Data Center, Auto Resources Asia and R.L. Polk Marketing Systems GmbH