The last century brought significant changes to the automotive industry and represents a significant economic and technological force in the life of countries connected to the industry. The goal of the research is to showcase the practical functioning of the cluster organisation in Hungary and to reveal their economyenhancing effects and advantages.  The research sets such possible models which describe the supply chains of the automotive industry using the tools of today’s modern demands.  This topic can be called current because cluster-oriented politics does not look back to a great past. The practical functioning of clusters became known in Hungary close to 20 years ago, when with a pioneer role. Today the clusters already get a role in the progress and shaping the increase of competitiveness of SMEs, and these, trust-based networks may help the small enterprises utilize special resources by sharing the knowledge, and by the fact that the benefits of these can be reached with smaller costs compared to those outside the cluster.