Abstract:

The automotive industry is a major industrial and economic force worldwide. This paper examines macroeconomic effect with six variables on the automobile sales in top four automobile production countries. These variables are real GDP, GDP per capita, automobile production, inflation, gasoline price, and exchange rate; and the countries has been selected are China, USA, Japan, and Germany that has first four highest automobile production countries in the world. The findings shows that real GDP, car production, gasoline price have positive impact towards car sales while change in GDP percapita, inflation and exchange rate cause the opposite. Some variables in this research based on findings is inconsistent with the previous findings done by other researcher. While for those top countries GDP percapita and gasoline price have different effect to the automobile sales. The reason of that situation is because GDP percapita that reflect fluctuation of income perpeople of those countries have no significant effectto the number of automobile sales.

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