page_title: Automotive industry by country
section_title: Serbia
hierarchical_section_title: Automotive industry by country / Europe / Serbia
caption_attribution_description: There was plenty of high-end metal being unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, but the likes of the one-off Lamborghini Aventador J, the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta, and the Maserati GranTurismo Sport, and others weren’t the real show stoppers... there were plenty of the big-end players downsizing: Mercedes-Benz A-Class, Audi A3, Volvo V40, and much more. Here’s what flicked our switch. You can check out more on the 2012 Geneva Motor Show here at; &lt;a href="http://www.mynrma.com.au/motoring/news/geneva-motor-show-electric-dreams.htm" rel="nofollow"&gt;www.mynrma.com.au/motoring/news/geneva-motor-show-electri...&lt;/a&gt; as well as; &lt;a href="http://www.mynrma.com.au/motoring/news/geneva-motor-show-best-in-show-part-one.htm" rel="nofollow"&gt;www.mynrma.com.au/motoring/news/geneva-motor-show-best-in...&lt;/a&gt;
context_page_description: The United States was the world's largest automobile producer by volume from the early years of the 20th century until the 1980s, when it was overtaken by Japan. In 2009, China became the world's largest vehicle producer.
context_section_description: The automotive industry in Serbia and Yugoslavia dates back to 1939 when the first trucks came out of the assembly lines in the city of Kragujevac. After the Second World War this factory was renamed Zastava Automobiles and the production of motor vehicles started again under license to FIAT. Yugoslavia was 2nd (after Poland) European socialist auto maker outside Soviet Union and achieved at high point near 300 thousands annual production, 250 thousands amongst that was Zastava cars. Zastava cars were exported by small quantities to 70 countries all over the world, including the UK. With the Yugo small car, Yugoslavia undertook wide adverted intervention to US automarket and tried to compete with Japanese analogs in the small car sector that opened after the oil crisis of the mid-1970s.
  During the 1990s, the political problems and economic sanctions imposed on Serbia, inherited by the Yugoslavian auto industry mainly, halted the drop of production of Zastava cars to just 10–20,000 per year. In 2008, in agreement with Government of Serbia, FIAT Group took over the Zastava plant which is now one of FIAT factories. The Serbian Government wants to establish Serbia as a new manufacturing location for the automotive industry in Europe and is strongly supporting all the international producers and suppliers in order to open their plants in Serbia.
  New Fiat model 500L and 500XL will have estimated production between 200,000 and 300,000 in 2013,
caption: The Fiat 500L is manufactured in Kragujevac.
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