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• abrichr 3y ago
  To add to this, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_motor_vehicle_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_motor_veh...: # Country 2022 ---------------------------- 1 China 27,020,615 2 United States 10,060,339 3 Japan 7,835,519 4 India 5,456,857 5 South Korea 3,757,049 6 Germany 3,677,820 ... 18 United Kingdom 876,614
  • z7 3y ago
    South Korea produces more cars than Germany with 32 million fewer people? Impressive.
  • bamboozled 3y ago
    I'm talking about going backwards. Japan, how is that sustainable with a collapsing population? Robots, perhaps, but not yet.
• fsloth 3y ago
  When you first learn that the industrial revolution started in England, you imagine it must be still amazing given 200 years at it. Then you grow up, and learn what they actually did was 100 years of manufacturing with the same infrastructure since they could just funnel their product to the colonies, and when their empire collapsed, they were finally forced to compete in the open market, at which point they chose to close down manufacturing and focus on finance.