Talk:List of top automotive manufacturing groups

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Shouldn't the Full list of Vehicle manufacturers from the OICA list be in this article and the list in Automotive industry be Top 20 just for a glance, to keep that article about the overall industry, brief sections about the industry in each country, current company relationships, joint ventures, and current and past industry woes. --Viddea9 (talk). 04:54, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Idea for this article

Rather than maintaining this article as an almost exact duplicate of the section in the automotive industry article from which it was copied, I have a suggestion to transform it into a more useful and complimentary article. How about renaming it to something like "List of current automotive marques", and maintaining a table of active marques or brands? The table could have sortable columns with the headings something like: "Marque", "Country of Origin", <Vehicle types>, "Marque owner", "Parent company", "Group", "Markets". Now that would make an interesting article, especially being sortable on any column.

Example:

Marque	Country of Origin	Sedans	SUVs	Trucks	Marque owner	Parent company	Group	Main markets
BMW		Y	Y	N	BMW AG		BMW AG	Global
MINI		Y	N	N	BMW		BMW AG	Global
Rolls-Royce		Y	N	N	Rolls-Royce Motor Cars		BMW AG	Global
Ford		Y	Y	N	Ford Motor Company		Ford Motor Company	Global
Volvo (cars)		Y	Y	N	Volvo Cars		Ford Motor Company	Global
Renault (trucks)		N	N	Y	Renault Trucks		AB Volvo	Global
Renault (cars)		Y	N	N	Renault		Renault S.A.	Global
Volvo (trucks)		N	N	Y	AB Volvo		AB Volvo	Global
Porsche		Y	Y	N	Porsche AG		Porsche Automobil Holding SE	Global
Audi		Y	Y	N	Audi AG	Volkswagen AG	Porsche Automobil Holding SE	Global

-- de Facto (talk). 09:42, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Or, how about merging this article back into Automotive industry and deleting it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.91.143.201 (talk) 14:08, 8 April 2009 (UTC)