China produced 13.79 million cars, namely a 48% plus against 2008. Japan came second, with 7.9 million units, dropping 31%, while the US ranked third, with 5.71 million units, a 34% cut in production. Just like in China, where there is little monitor, the Indian market, too, has got potential and the production went up to 20.9%, to around 296,000 units. In the Czech Republic, the automobile production came close to a million units, while in Poland it neared 900,000 units.
At the other pole are the countries where the car production plummeted. For example, in Ukraine, the production dropped by 84%, from around 420.000 cars in 2008 to below 70,000 last year. Russia, too, had had a bad year, with its production recording a 60% minus, from over 1.7 million automobiles to 722,000. In Austria, the production dropped by 53% and in other countries, like Hungary, Sweden, Uzbekistan, the Netherlands and Egypt, the cuts were bigger than 40%.
