The Automotive industry is one of the largest in the world, with starkly differentiated leaderships styles within each OEM. Ford Motor Land Development Corporation is a full-service real estate company originally established in 1970 to develop acreage surrounding Ford Motor Company’s corporate headquarters in Michigan. Befitting its sublimely sophisticated founder Henrik Fisker, Fisker Automotive is blessedly short on bluster and credibility-eroding unfounded claims (in contrast to some other notable electric car start-ups). I want to thank those of you who take the time to support this blog through your financial donations and subscriptions and welcome those of you who want to donate via PayPal on the top right-hand side under my picture.

With 9.7 million new cars and trucks sold in 2013, Germany’s Volkswagen Group (that includes a host of brands, like Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini and Porsche in Canada) is well on its way to its goal of surpassing GM and Toyota as the world’s largest automaker by 2018. Once the Top Ten Startups have been selected, this team of esteemed jurors will narrow the list of ten down to three finalists and a grand prize winner.

This company is one of the oldest companies and still going on. The company was founded in the year 1947 and it is an international company which has its headquarters located at the captivity of South Korea, Seoul. For example, only two new players have appeared on the list of the top-15 automotive original-equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the last 15 years, compared with ten new players in the handset industry. FCA’s sales was marginal; however it was able to better its ranking from 11th in 2015 to 8th in 2016.

The youngsters competed for shotgun shell prizes and it was a very close race to the top with Dylan taking 1st followed by Corre Smith (47), Jacob Bell (46) and Makenzy Glover (45). One of the few areas where it falls outside the top 10 rankings is practicality and boot space, where it came 12th. Moreover, Team Prevent Poland as the sole company in Poland is in possession of VDA QMC licence for performing quality trainings for automotive industry and publishing VDA QMC manuals and IATF standards on the Polish market.

Erie has consistently received high marks from J.D. Power and Consumer Reports, but didn’t make it into my top four recommendations due to limited availability — it only serves residents in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and certain parts of DC. The table below includes the number of holdings for each ETF and the percentage of assets that the top ten assets make up, if applicable.