- The evolution of global automobile production (top 15 producing countries) between the first 9 months of 2012 and the first 9 months of 2013 reveals some significant changes.

- If the first eight countries remain the same from one year to the next, with China in first position, far ahead of the United States, Japan, Germany, South Korea, India, Brazil and Mexico. The ninth place this year is attributed to Thailand which has over taken Canada.

- Russia retains its eleventh place, the twelfth place this year is attributed to Spain that has overtaken France.

- Britain (fourteenth place) in 2013 remains closely behind France. The production of commercial vehicles has once again allowed France to stay ahead of the UK but the situation in coming months remain unsure. The arrival of the Renault Trafic and Nissan Primastar in Sandouville (France)  should logically consolidate the volume of the French car production. This launch has been delayed several times and no one today knows exactly when it will be effective.

- In fifteenth position, Indonesia has overtaken the Czech Republic, this is proof that the countries of South East Asia (we saw above the good performance of Thailand) are booming, even more so than Eastern European countries that have made great
progress over the past decade.