- As we saw in the article "The top 10 groups in 2002 and in 2012", the new hierarchy of global carmakers in 2012 compared to 2002. This hierarchy includes the production that Chinese carmakers carry out on behalf of foreign carmakers (European, American, Japanese, Korean), the same way these carmakers count it .

- However, if one takes into account the fact that foreign carmakers are still less than 50% of the capital of joint ventures formed with Chinese manufacturers to produce vehicles in China, the hierarchy of global carmakers is quite different.

- The Chinese carmakers that produce millions of licensed vehicles each year for non-Chinese manufacturers and fall within the top 15, with SAIC (the first Chinese carmaker) in eighth place, FAW (the second Chinese carmaker) in tenth place, Dongfeng (3rd Chinese carmaker) in thirteenth place and Changan (the fourth Chinese carmaker) in the fifteenth place. Let us note that the independent Chinese automakers (without JV) as Chery, Geely, Great Wall and BYD produce less than one million vehicles each.

- Toyota remains the first carmaker worldwide, but Renault-Nissan is the second largest carmaker in China, Volkswagen and GM being highly dependent of China.

Data source: File #101 - Worldwide production detailed by models