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AUDI AG (Xetra: NSU) is a German company which produces cars under the Audi brand, pronounced /ˈaʊdi/. It is part of the Volkswagen Group. The name Audi is based on a Latin translation of the surname of the founder August Horch, itself the German...
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Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (info) (BMW), (English: Bavarian Motor Works) is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the MINI brand, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor...
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| x Ford Motor Company |
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The Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is an American multinational corporation based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury...
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Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in...
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| x General Motors |
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General Motors Company, also known as GM, is a United States based automaker with headquarters in Detroit, Michigan.
For 2008, GM ranked as the largest U.S. automaker by sales and the world's second largest by sales. GM had the third highest 2008...
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| x Koenigsegg |
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Koenigsegg Automotive AB (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkøːnɪɡsɛɡ] ( listen), English: /ˈkʌnɪɡsɛɡ/) is a Swedish manufacturer of high-performance sports cars based in Ängelholm. In 2009, the company announced they would purchase Saab Automobile from...
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| x Lamborghini |
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Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., commonly referred to as Lamborghini (pronounced [lamˈborɡini] ( listen)), is an Italian automaker based in the small township of Sant'Agata Bolognese. The company was founded in 1963 by manufacturing magnate Ferruccio...
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| x Land Rover |
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Land Rover |
Land Rover is a 4x4, SUV and all-terrain vehicle manufacturer, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire, England, now operated as part of the Jaguar Land Rover business owned by Tata Motors of India.
Originally the term Land Rover referred to one specific...
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| x Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. |
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For the truck and bus maker "Nissan Diesel," a separate company from Nissan Motors; please see UD instead.
Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. (Japanese: 日産自動車株式会社, Nissan Jidōsha Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 7201), shortened to Nissan, is a multinational...
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Adam Opel GmbH, commonly known as Opel, is a German automaker. The company was founded on 21 January 1863, began making automobiles in 1899, and was acquired by General Motors in 1929. As part of GM Europe, Opel is GM's largest European brand and,...
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| x Porsche |
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Porsche Automobil Holding SE, usually shortened to Porsche SE (/ˈpɔrʃə/), a Societas Europaea or European Public Company, is a German automotive manufacturer of luxury high performance automobiles, which is majority-owned by the Piëch and Porsche...
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| x Toyota Motor Corporation |
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Toyota Motor Corporation (Japanese: トヨタ自動車株式会社) Toyota Jidōsha Kabushiki-gaisha (TYO: 7203), commonly known simply as Toyota, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan and the world's largest automaker by sales. Toyota employs...
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| x Volkswagen Passenger Cars |
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The Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft (VAG), also known as Volkswagen Group or as VW, is an automobile manufacturer and mobility organization based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany and is the pioneer brand within the Volkswagen Group, which contains...
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| x Volkswagen Group |
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Volkswagen Group is a German automobile manufacturing group; as of November 2009, the largest automobile maker in the world by vehicle production. The parent company of the Group, Volkswagen AG, develops vehicles and components for the whole group,...
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| x Alfa Romeo |
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Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian automaker founded on June 24, 1910 in Milan. Alfa Romeo has been a part of the Fiat Group since 1986, and since February 2007 a part of Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A. The company was owned by Italian state...
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| x DB |
DB was a French automobile maker between 1938 and 1961. The firm was founded by Charles Deutsch and René Bonnet. It produced light sports cars with fiberglass bodies mainly powered by Panhard flat-twin engines.
DB was very active in competition...
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| x Daimler AG |
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Plymouth |
Daimler AG (ISIN: DE0007100000) (formerly Daimler-Benz AG, DaimlerChrysler AG) is a German car corporation (not to be confused with the British Daimler Motor Company) and the world's thirteenth largest car manufacturer as well as the largest truck...
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Fiat S.p.A., an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (English: Italian Automobile Factory of Turin), is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial and industrial group based in Turin in the Piedmont region. Fiat...
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| x Citroën |
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Citroën (French pronunciation: [sitʁoˈɛn]) is a French automobile manufacturer. Founded in 1919 by André Citroën, it was the world's first mass-production car company outside of the USA. Since 1976 it has been part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, and its...
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| x Peugeot |
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Peugeot (pronounced /ˈpɜ:ˌʒoʊ/ (PəR-zhoh)) is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest European carmaker.
Peugeot's roots go back to 19th-century coffee mill and bicycle manufacturing. The Peugeot company and family...
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| x GAZ |
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GAZ (RTS:GAZA) or Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod), translated as Gorky Automobile Plant (Russian: ГАЗ or Го́рьковский автомоби́льный заво́д), started in 1929 as NNAZ, a cooperation between Ford and the Soviet Union.
In May 1929...
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| x Renault |
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Renault S.A. (Euronext: RNO) is a French automaker producing cars, vans, buses, tractors, and trucks. Due to its alliance with Nissan, it is currently the world's fourth largest automaker. Headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, Renault owns the...
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| x Cosworth |
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Cosworth is an automotive engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines for automobile racing (motorsport). It supplies a wide range of motorsport series, including the World Rally Championship, World Superbikes and, as of...
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| x SEAT |
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SEAT, S.A. (English pronunciation: /ˈseɪ.æt/ "say-at"; Spanish: [ˈse.at]) is a Spanish automobile manufacturer founded in 1950 by the Instituto Nacional de Industria (INI), with initial Fiat assistance, and now a wholly owned subsidiary of the...
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| x Lotus Cars |
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Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at Hethel, Norfolk, England. The company designs and builds race and production automobiles of light weight and high handling characteristics.
It is currently owned by Proton, the...
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| x De Lorean Motor Company |
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The DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) was a short-lived automobile manufacturer formed by automobile industry executive John DeLorean in 1975. It is remembered for the one model it produced – the distinctive stainless steel DeLorean DMC-12 sports car...
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MG |
MG Cars is a British sports car brand and former manufacturer, which was founded in 1924.
MG Cars is best known for its two-seat open sports cars, but MG also produced saloons and coupés. More recently, the MG marque has also been used on sportier...
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TVR was an independent British manufacturer of sports cars based in the English town of Blackpool, Lancashire. The company manufactured lightweight sports cars with powerful engines and was the third-largest specialised sports car manufacturer in...
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| x Mitsubishi Motors |
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Mitsubishi |
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (Japanese: 三菱自動車工業株式会社) is the sixth largest automaker in Japan and the seventeenth largest in the world by global vehicle production. It is part of the Mitsubishi keiretsu, formerly the biggest industrial group in...
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| x Caterham Cars |
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Caterham Cars is a manufacturer of specialist lightweight sports cars based in Caterham, Surrey, England and part of the British motor industry. Their only current model, the Caterham 7 (or Seven), is a direct evolution of the Series 3 Lotus Seven...
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| x Lancia |
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Lancia Automobiles S.p.A. (Italian pronunciation: [ˈlantʃa]) is an Italian automobile manufacturer founded in 1906 by Vincenzo Lancia and which became part of the Fiat Group in 1969. The company has a long history of producing distinctive cars and...
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| x Fuji Heavy Industries |
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Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd. (富士重工業株式会社, Fuji Jūkōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha), or FHI, is a Japanese company which traces its origins to the Nakajima Aircraft Company (est. 1917), which was the leader in aircraft manufacture for the Japanese military...
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| x Morgan Motor Company |
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Morgan |
The Morgan Motor Company is a British motor car manufacturer. The company was founded in 1909 by H.F.S. Morgan and was run by him until 1959. Peter Morgan, son of H.F.S., ran the company until a few years before his death in 2003. The company is...
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| x Elcat |
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ELCAT is an battery electric vehicle manufacturer based in Järvenpää, Finland.
Elcat Automotive was owned by an electricity producer called Fortum until production decreases in the early 21st century. Elcat began working in 1974 to design electric...
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| x Donkervoort |
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Donkervoort Automobielen BV is a producer of sports cars based in Lelystad in The Netherlands. This car brand was founded in 1978 by Joop Donkervoort.
In 1996, Donkervoort's Ford Zetec engines were replaced by Audi engines
The car is based on the...
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| x Isuzu |
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Isuzu Motors Ltd. (いすゞ自動車株式会社, Isuzu Jidōsha Kabushiki-gaisha), (TYO: 7202) is a Japanese car, commercial vehicle and heavy truck manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo. In 2005, Isuzu became the world's largest manufacturer of medium to...
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| x Westfield Cars |
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Westfield Sportscars are manufacturers of both factory built and kit versions of several two-seater, open top sportscars. Their main product line is a Lotus Seven inspired car - vehicles originally designed by Colin Chapman with only the bare...
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| x Bricklin SV-1 |
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The Bricklin SV-1 was a gull-wing door sports car assembled in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. The body panels were manufactured in a separate plant in Minto, New Brunswick. Manufactured from 1974 until early 1976 for the U.S. market, the car was...
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| x Pagani |
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Pagani Automobili S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of sports cars and carbon fibre. The company was founded in 1992 by Horacio Pagani, and is based in San Cesario sul Panaro, near Modena, Italy.
Horacio Pagani, an Argentinian who formerly managed...
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| x Mosler |
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Mosler Automotive is an American supercar manufacturer based in Florida. It was founded in 1985 by Warren Mosler as Consulier Industries, and manufactured the now-defunct Consulier GTP, which was later rebranded and updated as the Mosler Intruder...
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| x Shelby American vehicles |
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Shelby |
Shelby American was an automobile manufacturer created by Carroll Shelby. This is a list of the vehicles produced by Shelby American. Carroll Shelby International was formed from Shelby American and is still (2005) in business.
Total small block...
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| x Panoz |
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Panoz Auto Development is an American manufacturer of high-performance automobiles founded in 1989 by Dan Panoz, son of pharmaceutical and motorsport mogul Don Panoz. The company is located in Hoschton, GA. Panoz products have included the Panoz...
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| x Isdera |
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Isdera is a privately-run automaker based in a small workshop in Hildesheim, Germany. The company was formerly based in Leonberg, Germany. Each high-performance sports car is hand-built by a small team of craftsmen, and the only way to purchase an...
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| x Lada |
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Lada is the trademark of AvtoVAZ, a Russian car manufacturer in Togliatti, Samara Oblast. All AvtoVAZ vehicles sold currently are of the Lada brand but this has not always been so. Ladas were AvtoVAZ's export vehicles, the same models being sold...
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| x Cizeta |
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Cizeta Automobili srl of Modena, Italy was a car manufacturer set up in the late 1980s by Claudio Zampolli (an Italian Ferrari dealer) and the record producer Giorgio Moroder.
The name "Cizeta" comes from the Italian pronunciation of co-founder...
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| x Delphi |
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Delphi is an automotive parts company headquartered in Troy, Michigan, USA. Delphi is one of the world's largest automotive parts manufacturers and has approximately 146,600 employees (18,900 in the United States).
With offices worldwide, the...
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| x Visteon |
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Visteon (OTCBB: VSTN) is one of the world's largest suppliers of automotive parts. The company formed in 1997 and spun off from the Ford Motor Company in 2000. In 2005, Visteon moved to new headquarters in Van Buren Township, Michigan. Visteon is to...
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| x Qvale |
Qvale (pronounced "k'val-E") was an independent Italian car manufacturer founded in 2000 by the American Kjell Qvale's son, Bruce Qvale. Qvale's sole product was the Mangusta, originally the De Tomaso Biguà. Kjell Qvale founded British Motors in...
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| x Automobiles Venturi |
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Venturi Automobiles is a French manufacturer of sports cars born under the name of MVS (Manufacture de Voitures de Sport). The original company built high performance mid-engined sports cars, the most well known of which is the Venturi Atlantique,...
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| x Wiesmann |
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Wiesmann is an automobile manufacturer in Germany. The company was founded in 1985 by the brothers Martin Wiesmann (graduate engineer) and Friedhelm Wiesmann (bachelor of commerce). The cars are manufactured by hand in Dülmen. The Wiesmann logo...
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Ruf Automobile GmbH is a German automobile manufacturer. Rufs are built from unmarked Porsche bodies and chassis. When a chassis arrives, Ruf builds their own independent work into the car. Because Ruf installs many of their own-made parts, the...
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| x Vector Supercars |
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Vector Motors Corporation is an automobile manufacturer originally based in Wilmington, California. Its history can be traced to Vehicle Design Force, which was founded in 1978 by Gerald Wiegert. Vehicle production began in 1989 and ceased in the...
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| x Plug-In Motors Inc |
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Plug-In Motors Inc was founded in Feb. 2007 to convert cars and trucks into Premium Electric Vehicles. While our base models for conversion include the Ford Mustang, Ford
150, Ford F250, Ford Towncar, Ford Crownvictoria, Lincoln LS, and
Jaguar...
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| x Ginetta Cars |
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Ginetta Cars was founded in 1958 by the four Walklett brothers (Bob, Ivor, Trevers and Douglas) in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. The cars are currently (2008) made in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
The first car, not destined for production, which...
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| x Laraki |
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Laraki is a Moroccan manufacturer company of luxurious high-performance sport cars. Its owner is Laraki Abdeslam, a 31 year old Moroccan designer who started out creating luxurious yachts (the King of Bahrain is its main client). Laraki currently...
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| x Gumpert |
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Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur GmbH is a German, Altenburg-based company manufacturing supercars. The first model produced was the Gumpert Apollo, followed by the Apollo Sport in 2007. Gumpert also offer the Apollo Race. The founder and owner of...
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| x Zap Motors |
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Founded in 1994, ZAP (short for Zero Air Pollution) is a publicly-owned corporation (stock symbol ZAAP, as listed on OTC Bulletin Board) located in Santa Rosa, California, which manufactures and markets various electric vehicles.
ZAP is a U.S....
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| x Fisker Coachbuild |
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For the manufacturer of the Fisker Karma, see Fisker Automotive
Fisker Coachbuild is a car design firm based in Orange County, California. The company produces custom sportscars. Its current models are the Tramonto and Latigo CS. In addition to its...
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DENSO Corporation (株式会社デンソー, Kabushiki-gaisha Densō) (TYO: 6902) is a global automotive components manufacturer headquartered in the city of Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Established December 16, 1949 as Nippondenso Co. Ltd. (日本電装株式会社, Nippon...
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| x Ascari |
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Ascari Cars Ltd. is a British automobile manufacturer based in Banbury, United Kingdom founded by Dutch billionaire Klaas Zwart. The company was named after Alberto Ascari (1918–1955) who was the first double world Formula One champion. Besides...
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