This year Autocar has decided to get its calculator out too, but to produce a survey of all the wealthiest people and families who derived much or most of their wealth from the world of automotive and associated industries.

All the data is from Forbes, The Sunday Times, Bloomberg and other reputable sources with amounts in US dollars at current exchange rates. We start at US$1.6 billion, and work our way up to name the car world’s very wealthiest people: