The word 'carmaker' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person or company that makes cars. For example: "The major carmaker released its latest model to much fanfare".
But at home tricky labour relations are a problem.In a dusty lawyers' room in the industrial belt near Delhi, five workers explain how they were fired by Maruti Suzuki, a carmaker controlled by Suzuki of Japan, after simmering tensions on the shop floor led to a riot at a nearby plant in July 2012.
Not only is Toyota's brief reign as the world's largest carmaker threatened but, more important, so too is its reputation for matchless quality and management.
"Ford is too disciplined a company to go down," says the chief executive of a rival carmaker.
Bringing in the Japanese MHI to do the heavy lifting in development and commercialisation invokes comparison with another alliance: not the much-cited one between Renault and Nissan (the French carmaker controls the partnership with its Japanese counterpart) but Dongfeng's support of Peugeot.
Mr Winterkorn nevertheless dismisses the suggestion that the group is getting unmanageably big.Mr Piëch's plan was for VW to become the world's biggest carmaker by volume by 2018.
DongFeng, a Chinese carmaker, has just bought a 14% stake in Peugeot-Citroën (though so has the French state).Alarmed that the management of Alstom's energy business, which provides more than 70% of its revenues, would move to America if GE succeeded, France's interventionist economy minister, Arnaud Montebourg, quickly welcomed, if not prompted, Siemens's offer of an asset swap.
The carmaker has retained Kenneth Feinberg, who oversaw compensation payouts after the September 11th 2001 attacks and the BP oil spill, as a consultant.
The carmaker was overspending, overmanned and inefficient, and had lost its reputation for quality.
Renault's success with its basic, ultra-cheap Romanian-built Logan saloon has inspired imitations among competitors such as Toyota of Japan and South Korea's Hyundai.In December Chrysler revealed plans to farm out production of a new model to Chery, an independent Chinese carmaker.
The carmaker which has all these covered is, or so the theory goes, on the road to universal success.However, this genre of vehicle above almost all others has garnered a great deal of criticism.
Last November, however, protests from disgruntled workers forced Fiat to increase wages in Kragujevac by 13%.The Serbian government subsequently agreed to compensate Fiat for this by paying it €10,000 for each employee it took on not the first time a government has had its arm twisted by a carmaker into providing subsidies.
