Recently, Slovakia has grown to become one of the leading car producers in world, primarily thanks to the presence of three world-class automotive companies being established in Slovakia: Volkswagen Slovakia in Bratislava (since 1991), PSA Peugeot Citroën Slovakia in Trnava (since 2003) and Kia Motors Slovakia in Žilina (since 2004). The automotive industry has become a vital element in the economy of industrialized nations: motor vehicle production and sales are one of the major indicators of the status of the economy in those countries. Scharchburg, Richard P. Carriages Without Horses: J. Frank Duryea and the Birth of the American Automobile Industry. The blue indicates 11.27{a775f47e5e8fab0076d6dd0f2239d5f40a1e14262a4fe67b7afc4fe8e63c40b1} of total adjusted gross income (AGI) was paid to this group and they paid 2.75{a775f47e5e8fab0076d6dd0f2239d5f40a1e14262a4fe67b7afc4fe8e63c40b1} of income tax.

Research and development – the Commission has more than doubled the funds available for cooperative research and innovation in the automotive sector for the period 2014-2020. Between 1987 and 2002, the share of automotive sector employment at assembly plants declined from 44 percent to 36 percent, whereas the share of workers at automotive suppliers increased from 46 percent to 54 percent.

Because the industry is so integrated with many fundamental and locomotive sectors such as iron & steel, petrochemicals, textiles, glass, electronics and machinery, the input it contributes to these sectors, its sales revenues, the added value it creates, the real export value realized, its tax and wage potential have assigned it a key role in the economy.

Commenters are advised to leave their comments at this post (rather than with the news articles) so that they are more easily accessible. As the export champion of the last eleven years and Turkey’s largest export sector, the automotive industry is in first place in commercial vehicle manufacture in Europe. The new generation of autoworkers all but assumed that high-paying jobs would eventually go overseas and took steps, or at least expected, to eventually move into a new career.

Daewoo , owned by the Daewoo Group conglomerate, entered the automobile field on a large scale in the 1980s and had won nearly a fifth of the market before entering into financial receivership and reorganization in 2000. Even so, as the industry recognized, the automobile is but one element of a mobility system—an element governed by extensive regulations, constrained by a need for fuel, and dependent on a network of roadways and parking spaces. If a vehicle encounters drastically different climates, air will still flow steadily in and out of our vents, but dirt, dust, automotive fluids and other liquids won’t pass through.