The paper investigates how business costs affect sustainable development policies of world’s leading automotive producers. The core idea of the paper is to determine if business strategies have any effect on the three sustainable development pillars of world’s leading automotive producers. The analysis involves the period of 2006 – 2017 with world’s top 15 automotive producers from three different continents. In this paper, the use of fixed effects model will help in analyzing automotive producer’s efforts to achieve sustainable development goals with particular analysis of economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainable development in automotive industry. The result showed that economic pillar of sustainable development is more affected by business policy than other two, yet those not so strongly and significantly. This kind of research might contribute in conceptualizing new, efficient and effective business strategies for automotive producers in their attempt to achieve sustainable development goals as soon as possible