Ford Motor USA has the largest R&D budget of all automakers and ranks second overall in the ranking of the world’s top 50 R&D companies. Daimler Germany is in fifth place and Toyota is in sixth.
Here’s how the remaining automakers rank:
9) General Motors
14) Volkswagen
22) Honda
23) BMW
29) Nissan
35) Renault
41) Peugeot
http://iri.jrc.ec.europa.eu/research/docs/2007/sb_2007.pdf