The word "automaker" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to people or companies that make cars, such as Ford or Honda. Example: Ford is a prominent automaker that produces a wide range of vehicles.
It thinks it could be ready to partner with an established automaker by 2017, although industry-watchers think the middle of the next decade is more realistic.Many of the underlying technologies, including cameras, laser, radar and sonar sensors and heavy-duty microprocessing power are already found on production models.
Chief among the doubters is Carlos Ghosn, the boss of Nissan, a rival Japanese automaker that has yet to make a fuel-cell car.
GENERAL MOTORS still insists on referring to itself as "the world's largest automaker".
Hyundai, the country's dominant automaker, produced cars, light trucks, and commercial trucks and buses; it was part of the larger Hyundai Corporation, which had interests ranging from construction to shipbuilding.
Kia, South Korea's second largest automaker, was acquired by Hyundai in 1999.
The following year GM sold the company to Dutch automaker Spyker Cars NV.
The automaker, which Cerberus had acquired in the spring of 2007, had cut production costs in anticipation of a market slowdown in 2008.
Strong sales did not prevent the automaker from having to make some hard decisions, such as discontinuing its storied Mercury brand (while working to revive its stalled Lincoln model).
The U.S. government, which owned a roughly 61% stake in the automaker, would fully recoup its $49.5 billion investment, however, only if it sold GM shares at an average price of $133, or about $40 more than the company's peak stock price in 2000.
Volkswagen AG surprised many by announcing that it intended to overtake Toyota as the world's largest carmaker by 2018, a goal that would require the German automaker, among other challenges, to sell 800,000 Volkswagens annually in the U.S. (it sold 256,830 in 2010).
