This highly topical book brings together some of the world's leading specialists on the global car industry who discuss the ins and outs of the faster lane of regionalism at a time that the world is reassessing the ins and outs of globalization. It provides a thorough and up dated mapping of the worldwide geography of the car industry, in the triad regions (Europe, North America and Japan), and in the emerging countries and regions. DENNIS AUDET Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France ANTHONY BLACK Associate Professor and Director of the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa JEAN-JACQUES CHANARON CNRS Director, GERPISA and CSU-IRESCO, Paris, France LALE DURUIZ Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey MICHEL FREYSSENET CNRS Director, GERPISA and CSU-IRESCO, Paris, France YEONG-HYUN KIM Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Ohio University, Ohio, USA MARIANO LAPLANE Professor of Economics, Universidade Estadual de Caompinas-UNICAMP, Sao Paulo, Brazil MARC LAUTIER Senior Lecturer in Economics, Universite de Rouen, France JEAN-BERNARD LAYAN Reader in Economics, Montesquieu University, Bordeaux, France MIHOUB MEZOUAGHI Research Fellow, Institut de Recherches sur le Maghreb Contemporain, Tunis, Tunisia SAMSON MURADZIKWA Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, University of Capetown, South Africa FERNANDO SARTI Emeritus Profe ssor, Hoshei University, and Professor, Tokaigakuen University, Yokohama, Japan KOICHI SHIMOKAWA Emeritus Professor, Hoshei University, and Professor, Tokaigakuen University, Yokohama, Japan ERIC THUN Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA