The US car market is absolutely massive !

And growing: in 1970 there were 200 million cars in the world, in 2000 there were almost 600 million.  It is estimated that today there are more than 800 million cars on the road.

The 2003 Bureau of Transportation Statistics reported 107 million households in the US with 1.9 cars, trucks or sport utility vehicles and 1.8 drivers per household.  That's 204 million vehicles and 191 million drivers.

Imagine, cars now outnumber drivers.

Now consider that there are over 50,000 different colors on the road today - and that's before the varying effects of ultraviolet fading.  This makes for a vast array of color matching permutations.

In 2005, there were 63 million cars and light trucks produced worldwide.

Here are the top 15 motor vehicle producing countries in 2005 ( in 000 units)

                    1,000  2,000  3,000  4,000  5,000  6,000  7,000  8,000  9,000  10,000  11,000  12,000

United States  ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 11,524
Japan            |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 10,064
Germany       ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 5,543
China            ||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 5,067
South Korea  |||||||||||||||||| 3,657
France          ||||||||||||||||| 3,495
Spain            |||||||||| 2,677
Canada         |||||||||| 2,624
Brazil             |||||| 1,783
Mexico          |||||| 1,607
India             ||||| 1,406
Russia            |||| 1,264
Thailand        |||| 1,110
Italy              || 995

References: World Motor Vehicle Production by Country and Type: Cars 2004-2005
                  World Motor Vehicle Production by Country and Type: Light Commercial Vehicles 2004-2005

And the cars keep coming.  Check out the new concept cars from the 100th Anniversary Detroit Auto Show:

Lexus LFA

Mazda Nagare

Jaguar C-XF

Lincoln MKR

Acura Advance

Maybach Exelero

Ford Interceptor

Do you enjoy these cars ?  We do.