The German automotive industry secures jobs, drives Germany's export and invests the most in research and development in the "Land of Ideas". At the same time, the German automotive industry is active worldwide, manufacturing even more vehicles abroad than it does in Germany. Our companies are not only global; they are also a beacon of German Mittelstand: 70% of the value added comes from the suppliers.
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Coronavirus-Bulletin
Here you will recent news regarding the effects of COVID-19 on the automotive industry.
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Coronavirus-Service
The VDA has set up an internal taskforce to bundle the available knowledge and information in the ...
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The effects of Brexit on the automotive industry
In 2016, the British voted to leave the European Union. Brexit duly occurred on January 1, 2020, ...
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Market figures
Statistics and figures for the automotive industry in Germany, Europe and the world.
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Production
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Market commercial vehicles, trailers, bodies and buses
Commercial vehicles come in all shapes and sizes, and offer solutions to every transportation task.
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Market supplier industry
Suppliers again succeeded in increasing the previous year’s turnover by 5 percent.
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Production and Logistics
Production and logistics represent the core fields of the automotive industry.
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Medium-sized businesses
Close collaboration in the value creation chain plays a decisive role in the common success of OEMs ...
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Historic Vehicles
The cross-party parliamentary group on “automotive cultural inheritance” in the German Bundestag has ...
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China 2020
For the last seven years, the Chinese car market has been the largest in the world. In 2018 the ...
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Aftermarket
Just like the automotive sector as a whole, the automotive aftermarket is in a state of flux. The ...
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Automotive banks
General Terms and Conditions for the purchase of production material and spare parts which are ...
