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China's 2025 numbers are out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_motor_vehicle_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_mot
by csomar 9mo ago
China's 2025 numbers are out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_motor_vehicle_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_motor_veh...
They're up roughly 10% over last year and will likely hit 35% of global production. The big shift over the last decade (beyond their growing market share) is that their overall quality has caught up to (and in many cases surpassed) the traditional incumbents.
Barring a global war, I think they're unstoppable at this point.
- riffraff 9mo agoI remember when Japan was supposed to take over the world in the '80s, to the point that "back to the future 2" had Americans speaking Japanese to their managers. Toyota did become the dominant producer, but American and European car makers (and now Koreans and Chinese) are still around. I wouldn't bet on total domination from China anytime soon.
- vasco 9mo agoAnd funny thing, all three countries car industries were started by the USA.
- csomar 9mo agoWell, China is not accepting/going through a Plaza Accord kind of an agreement. So history might not replay itself this time.
- mytailorisrich 9mo agoYes I remember, too. The crucial difference is that Japan's population is one third of the US while China's is 4 times the US (and 3x the EU). Basically Japan never had the numbers to "take over the world" while China has them even if natality is way down. If China had the same clout relative to population as Japan, Germany, Korea, or the US it would dwarf everyone else, and that's why the US are in a panic about China.