Band 6+: The chart below gives information on the amount of time to manufacture a vehicle by US based car producers between 1998 and 2002. The line graph illustrates data on the amount of the time taken to produce a car by four US-based car manufacturers from 1998 to 2002.

Overall, the amount of time taken to produce a car decreased to varying degrees in almost all factories, except for Ford, which was the lowest in the beginning and increased slowly to 2nd place by the end of the period. Nissan was the highest in the beginning and sharply declined to the lowest point in the end, followed by Daimler Chrysler (DC), which decreased to the highest from 2nd highest.

In 1998, the amount of time to produce a car was 37 hours in Nissan, followed by DC, was 34 hours, while that for General Motors (GM) was 32 hours. In Ford, the amount of time to produce a car started with 25 hours, and grew slowly and reached 27 hours in 2001. By the year 1999, the amount of time to produce a car decreased to similar figures in DC and GM, reaching 32 and 30 hours respectively, while that for Nissan decreased to 24 hours in 2000.

For the rest of the period, the spending time to produce a vehicle declined sharply to 25 hours in GM, followed by Nissan, to 21 hours, while that for DC remained stable till 2001. By 2002, the amount of time to produce a car declined to 29 and 26 hours in DC and GM respectively.