Passenger Cars

From - http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_01_17.html

Just to put things in context

- US population ~300M

- Car Sales every year between 50M-60M for past 15 years

- New car sales/lease 17M and used car sales 41M for 2007

- New car sales/leaves revenue is more than old car sales revenue even tough the volume of used cars is more than twice the new cars/leases.

- Average cost of a passenger car is 13.5K. New car - 27K and used car - 8.2K.

From - http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_01_22.html

US manufactured 9%(4.3M) of all passenger cars produced by the world in 2006. Japan produces more than double the US - 9.7M. Germany with 5.4M comes second.