Using Count to find the number of occurrences

Question

Let\'s say I have a table with the following values.

Ford
Ford
Ford
Honda
Chevy
Honda
Honda
Chevy

So I want to construct the following outp

Answer 1

Hope this works for you!!

SELECT car_brand, COUNT(id) from cars
GROUP BY car_brand

COUNT(id) with InnoDB is faster than COUNT(*) because InnoDB doesn't cache the row count.

Answer 2

SELECT ... GROUP BY

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/select.html

For example:
SELECT CarName, COUNT(CarName) AS CarCount FROM tbl GROUP BY CarName

Answer 3

select car_made, count(*) as occurrences
from cars
group by car_made
order by occurrences desc, car_made

Answer 4

Do you mean this?

select car_make, count(*) from cars
group by car_makes