carmaking

Like the rest of the global carmaking industry, Chinese auto manufacturers are looking for ways to capitalize on Toyota's setback.

but the group is an unspectacular contender in industries from telecoms to convenience stores and is now moving into carmaking.

All around the world, governments are investing in superfluous carmaking capacity.

Buoyed by the rapid growth of the domestic car market, Chinese companies are becoming a competitive force in carmaking.

This included machinery, carmaking, information technology, construction, iron and steel and non-ferrous metals.

In carmaking, for instance, Japan has Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Daihatsu, Mazda and Subaru. South Korea mainly has Hyundai.

Before Ford revolutionised carmaking, automobiles were put together by teams of highly skilled craftsmen in custom-built workshops.

Given the overcapacity in European carmaking, an orderly insolvency of Opel would have made sense.

Instead they too are becoming hotbeds of innovation, producing breakthroughs in everything from telecoms to carmaking to health care.

In carmaking, for instance, Japan has Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Daihatsu, Mazda and Subaru.

Not surprisingly, he is worried that help for banks could distort competition. But he pointed to another industry too: carmaking.

That could shake up the oil, carmaking and electricity industries all in one go.

Many manufacturers in industries like carmaking prefer to build plants overseas, where costs are lower or markets are expanding.

Governments have gone to similar extremes, taking on vast sums of debt to prop up industries from banking to carmaking.

Nonetheless, doubts linger. The record of cross-border carmaking mergers is atrocious.

There are signs of that happening in carmaking.

Employment in residential construction and carmaking is down by almost a third, in retailing and banking by 8%.

This is not like carmaking and it is one reason why Fiat is demerging its car business from its lorry, tractor and machinery arms.

The record of cross- border carmaking mergers is atrocious .

That these are the products of small, new firms, or of established non-carmaking companies, supports the Bower-Christensen thesis.

Private-sector productivity has soared in the West over the past quarter-century, even in old industries such as steel and carmaking.

But quality improved and Japan became a powerful force in electronics, carmaking and other industries.

In its wake foreign firms piled into industries such as consumer goods and carmaking, drawn by a big pool of labour and customers.

Big companies in other industries, such as carmaking, have also been brought under state control.

SAIC is GM's main carmaking partner in China, where the Detroit carmaker now sells more vehicles than the US.

Joint ventures are common in fields such as carmaking, logistics and agriculture.

However, in a few industries, carmaking, for example, debt has been pushed very high.

Supporters of state aid point to the government support received by other sectors of the economy, such as carmaking.

Carmaking can still be highly profitable, but manufacturers have to work at it

Industries such as carmaking and finance, which once produced big sexual-harassment lawsuits, are less male-dominated than before,

Zen and the art of carmaking