The line chart illustrates the average hours that four car manufacturers needed to produce vehicles at their factories in the US between 1998 and 2005.
Overall, the hours spent producing vehicles at these four manufacturers decreased, although they fluctuated, except for General Motors.
According to the chart, General Motors had the highest time to build a vehicle in 1998, with 32 hours, and it declined markedly to around 24 hours in 2005. Ford followed with 28 hours in 1998; its production time rose to 31 hours in 2001 before dropping to around 22 hours in 2005.
In 1998, Honda and Toyota both took 22 hours to build a vehicle. After one year, Toyota’s production time increased slightly by about 1 hour compared to the previous year, while Honda’s decreased moderately to 20 hours. However, both returned to 22 hours in 2001. Then, their production times rose to 24 hours in 2002 before reducing to 20 hours in 2005.
