But there are no eternal realms. And a simple question arises: who is next? Where will the seat of power of global mobility move? And judging by recent events, this is not the United States and not Europe. India seems to be the next candidate for world domination. This is evidenced by simple facts: more and more world brands are actively introduced to the country’s market, which the British could not plunder. In India, the assembly lines of most car brands are active. At the same time, they create special modifications of models for the local market. And this is important.
In addition, India became the most populous country in the world this year, even overtaking China. Now 1,427,084,972 people live there. Moreover, this goes hand in hand with rapid economic growth. In the 1st quarter of 2022, India symbolically overtook the UK with Rishi Sunak leading in terms of GDP to become the fifth largest economy in the world. But three years ago, the country didn’t even make the top ten. And if we talk about the volumes of auto markets in developed countries, they traditionally looked like this.
China ranked first with more than 25 million vehicles, followed by the United States with nearly 15 million vehicles, and Japan usually ranked third with about 4.2 million vehicles. But this year India broke through with sales of 4.25 million cars in the domestic market, pushing the Japanese out of the top three. And this is due in no small part to the huge number of solvent buyers. The AvtoVzglyad portal is curious when India will become the largest car market in the world and how soon will it become the largest car manufacturer too?