1. Analysing government-industry relations in the automobile sector -- 2. Heroic strategies and policy failures: the UK 1945-79 -- 3. Privatization as industrial policy -- 4. Japanese inward investment in the British automobile industry -- 5. Policy networks in the UK automobile sector -- 6. Policy participation at the European level -- 7. State aids -- 8. Trade policy and the volet externe -- 9. The volet interne for automobiles -- 10. Governing structures at the European level -- App. 1. Legislative overview -- App. 2. Legislation on legal, environmental and consumer protection matters -- App. 3. Collective organizations -- App. 4. British Leyland's organizational structure 1983 -- App. 5. The EC-Japan Car Accord.