The automotive industry represents a growing sector that has been massively evolved over the past decades. In fact, the continuing challenges have been driven carmakers all over the world toward a product and process improvement bringing the vehicles’ manufactures the best in terms of innovations and technologies utilization. By means of literature synthesis, we build an overview of the history of the automotive industry highlighting all the more relevant steps and focusing on the effect of the Lean Manufacturing on such companies. More than that, the study then proceeds in the definition and a deep consideration of the Additive Manufacturing technology as part of the latter evolutionary step.