Subject(s): Automobile industry and trade. -- regulatory policy -- Growth and Investment -- Industry specific and the developing country -- Motor vehicle industry - early beginning, indigenisation and ancillary development -- Structure of the motor vehicle industry I : Models of vehicles produced, growth of production in the motor vehicle industry, movement of market shares of vehicle producers, pricing behaviour of firms, research and development efforts -- Structure of the motor vehicle industry II - parts and component makers : Structure of the industry in the early seventies, production trend between 1972-73 and 1986-87, new entrants and changing structure, technological capability of the ancillary sector,foreign collaboration and changing market structures -- Ancillary-vehicle assembler relationship : Characteristics of the ancillary firms, realtionship between ancillaries and assemblers, basic production processes in motor vehicle industry -- Impact of the regulatory policy on growth and investment : Regulatory policy environment 1948-82, impact on growth and investment in motor vehicle industry, policy changes of the early eighties, policy changes and transformation of the industry, policy changes