has a close working relationship with domestic giant Toyota. Performance has improved significantly as a result, and FHI has reported record sales and profits for the past four years, underpinned by excellent

3 Japanese auto manufacturer worldwide behind Toyota and Nissan. But throughout Asia the company is famed for the motorbikes on which the business was originally built. Honda is the world's leading bike

Nissan is Japan's second largest carmaker (after Toyota, and well ahead of Honda), effectively controlled since 1999 by French group Renault. The company achieved a remarkable turnaround during the 2000s

Lexus is the luxury car brand within the Toyota portfolio. The Lexus brand was originally conceived by Toyota as a competitor in North America to imported European models BMW and Mercedes. Shortly before

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4 manufacturer behind GM, Ford and Toyota. However, the bulk of those sales were generated by Chrysler's existing local portfolio (see separate profile). The Fiat brand itself accounted for only 26,460

with Toyota to build small cars for Europe, and with Dong Feng Motors to enter the Chinese market. Christian Streiff was appointed as the new group CEO of PSA at the end of 2006 but was ousted by the

its customers include GM as well as Ford, Toyota as well as Nissan and Mitsubishi, and Renault as well as PSA. Revenues rose by 13% in 2008 to €2.9bn, of which around half was generated by cars and

but it seized the top spot globally in 2016 ahead of Toyota and GM, two years ahead of target despite the shadow of the diesel emissions scandal which emerged a year earlier. The group was found to have

2 top-selling model by registrations (behind Toyota Corolla), although sales slipped back from 2015's record 1.06m registrations to 995k units. The majority of sales, though, are in Europe, where it is