Abstract
Since more than half a century, the motor industry has represented, in most of industrialized countries a floret of the industry. In spite of the expansion of the service sector, the French motor industry occupies a very great place in our country. The manpower mass has decreased (in France this sector employs only 1.3% of the working people) but its attachment to some other sectors or some activities as electronics or research and development gives itself an important role.
However, the motor industry is characterized by an intensive activity of fusions and acquisitions. It has been followed by a period of reorganization. It is what we will study first. We will explain how the French motor industry has succeeded in the market evolutions.
After that, we will see how the French industry has achieved success overseas. On one hand, we will see that French manufacturers have reorganized themselves; we will see how they did it and how it has worked. We will examine all the points which allowed it to happen (internationalization, globalization etc.).
On the other hand, we will talk about the second actor of its sector which means the cars supplier industry. We will try to understand how they succeeded in reaching their actual position.
In the last part, we will concentrate our study on the car evolution. We will see that the work of all the actors of the French industry never stops. In fact, we will see that innovation, research and development are today, the key factors for the success of the motor industry. We will also see that a lot of researches of car evolution are required in order to answer to the problems of the environment, petrol exhaustion, customer waiting etc.
