As a followup to my previous post about which companies manufactured the different brands of cars I now present a short table of the market capitalisation of some of the major players.
| Daimler Chrysler |  57B |
| Ford | 16B |
| General Motors | 13B |
| Honda | 52B |
| Toyota | 166B |
I used Google stock information to get this information - just type the company symbol, eg. TM for Toyota, GM for General Motors, into Google to get a brief summary of that company's financial data.
There are various ways of comparing companies. Market capitalisation is the cost of buying a company in its entirety, and I chose it for this chart as it's easy to understand and the figures are readily available. The slightly rubbery aspect to it is that it takes into account future expectations for a company.