automaker

noun

1. A person or company that manufactures automobiles; usually used to refer to a large corporation such as General Motors, Toyota, and so on.

   “Near-synonyms: carmaker, truckmaker”

   “With such competition looming, one might suppose that U.S. automakers would embrace tighter domestic efficiency requirements to help them gird for the challenge.”

   “By overpaying these engineers, the expenses of the domestic automakers went up as well.”

   “Becoming president of the UAW when he did, Bieber inherited the task of organizing the plants that Japanese automakers and suppliers had begun building in America in the early 1980s to circumvent the “voluntary quotas” the Japanese government had placed on exports to the United States.”

   “If Trump wants American automakers to sell more cars across the Atlantic, slapping tariffs on German cars wouldn't help get that done, experts say.”