This report was commissioned by a Government keen to sustain and further develop the motorsport cluster and to ensure that other sectors benefit from its skills and expertise. The 2005/2006 Annual Report describes MDUK's work across the 5 projects that it sponsors

This 2004 publication provides a summary of the UK's innovation and experience in the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).

This exclusive report, sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and AUTOFACTS, provides a complete guide to understanding how retail markets across the globe will change in the future and clearly identifies the sector’s key trends, showing how they are set to affect your interests in the key markets.

Bridging the Continental Divide, is the first part of a follow up study to the EEF's "Catching up with Uncle Sam", looking at manufacturing productivity in the UK, Germany and France. Drawing on over 40 in-depth interviews with senior managers in manufacturing companies that were conducted in person last year aiming to get a detailed understanding of what managers in the respective countries felt were their productivity strengths and weaknesses.

This report focusses on who supplies whom in the European auto industry.

The UK motorsport cluster has for decades maintained a leading global position. The Panel believes, however, that a series of urgent co-ordinated actions is required in order to ensure that this position is retained, in the face of increasing overseas competition and global economic pressures. These recommended actions would strengthen both the sport and the industry that it generates, as well as creating new opportunities for motorsport to broaden its links with other sectors.

The Automotive Innovation and Growth Team (AIGT) was chaired by Sir Ian Gibson and reported on 16th May 2002. This is the full set of reports produced by the group.

This SMMT publication provides an overview of the UK auto industry and other issues including motoring taxes, car retailing and the aftermarket.

The SMMT commissioned Automotive Advisors & Associates to conduct a survey amongst the European automotive manufacturers and their largest first-tier suppliers about the growth prospects of the European automotive supply industry and the priority actions for suppliers and governments.

Tells the story of SMMT Industry Forum from its origins in the mid-1990s to the present day.

Issued in 2002 this gives the government’s view of the manufacturing and what needs to be done for UK firms to compete.

Many commentators have identified skills gaps as a significant problem for UK automotive firms. The report, written by staff at the Northern Economic Research Unit at Northumbria University, draws on discussions over 100 firms to analyse the reasons firms are finding it difficult to recruit the staff they need and proposes solutions.

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young publish survey (in pdf format) of consumer car buying habits and trends in 2001. The survey covers several markets spanning across the globe including the USA, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Benelux and Japan.

This publication looks at the manufacturing productivity gap between the US and the UK and examines what needs to be done in the UK to close the gap.

This publication highlights how the transfer of best practice is improving the performance of companies in several sectors of industry including automotive, aerospace, metals, energy and ceramics.

This is the first of a new range of Industry profiles, produced by the DTI's Automotive Directorate in collaboration with the SMMT.

This report presents the findings of the first ever comprehensive survey of the UK foundry industry undertaken in 1998.

The report looks at the provision of graduates, technician engineers and craftsmen and the effects of technological change, student expectations and funding structures on the quality and quantity of recruits to the engineering sector.

A very thorough, official history from the foundation of the Bayerische Motoren Werke in 1916 to the mid-1980s.

This latest publication from ims Publishing provides analysis of this increasingly important sector, examining the rising levels of technology, consumer requirements and safety and ergonomics issues.

Sloan joined General Motors in 1918 at a time of crisis. By the time he left in 1957 the company had become the largest private enterprise in the world