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MG Rover Group
MG Rover was the last domestically owned mass-production car manufacturer in the British motor industry. The company was formed when BMW sold the car-making and engine manufacturing assets of the original Rover Group to the Phoenix Consortium in...
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- 2000
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Chrysler LLC
Chrysler Group LLC is a U.S. automobile manufacturer headquartered in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills, Michigan. Chrysler was first organized as the Chrysler Corporation in 1925. From 1998 to 2007, Chrysler and its subsidiaries were part of the...
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- Jun 6, 1925
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Opel
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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- 1863
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Saab
Saab Automobile AB, better known as Saab, is a Swedish car manufacturer currently owned by General Motors. It is the exclusive automobile royal warrant holder as appointed by H.M., the King of Sweden. Since its inception, Saab has been known for its...
Date founded:
- 1947
Volvo Cars Corporation
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Dodge
Dodge is a United States-based brand of automobiles, minivans, sport utility vehicles, and, until 2009, pickup trucks, manufactured and marketed by Chrysler Group LLC in more than 60 different countries and territories worldwide. Founded as the...
Date founded:
- 1914
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Mazda
Mazda Motor Corporation (Japanese: マツダ株式会社) (TYO: 7261) is a Japanese automotive manufacturer based in Fuchū, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
During 2007, Mazda produced almost 1.3 million vehicles for global sales. The majority of these ...
Date founded:
- Jan 1920
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Toyota Motor Corporation
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...
Date founded:
- 1937
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Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
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...
Date founded:
- 1932
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is a British manufacturer of luxury automobiles based in Goodwood, England. It is the current producer of Rolls-Royce branded automobiles, whose historical production dates back to 1904. The factory is located across from the...
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- Mar 1998
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Bentley
Bentley Motors Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles founded on 18 January 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley (known as W.O. Bentley or just "W.O."). Mr. Bentley had been previously known for his range of rotary aero-engines in World War I, the...
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- Jan 18, 1919
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Pagani
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...
Date founded:
- 1992
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Lamborghini
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...
Date founded:
- 1963
Ferrari S.p.A.
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...
Date founded:
- 1929
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General Motors
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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- 1908
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Daimler AG
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...
Date founded:
- 1998
Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of luxury automobiles, buses, coaches, and trucks. It is currently a division of the parent company, Daimler AG (formerly DaimlerChrysler AG), after previously being owned by Daimler-Benz. Mercedes-Benz has its...
Date founded:
- 1871
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Porsche
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...
Date founded:
- 1931
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Audi
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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Ford Motor Company
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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- Jun 16, 1903
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Aston Martin
Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire. The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Hill speed hillclimb near...
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- 1913
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BMW
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...
Date founded:
- Jul 21, 1917
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Bugatti
Bugatti was founded in Molsheim, France as a manufacturer of high performance automobiles by Ettore Bugatti, an Italian man described as an eccentric genius.
The original company is legendary for producing some of the most exclusive cars in the...
Date founded:
- 1900
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Holden
GM Holden Ltd is an Australian automaker based in Port Melbourne, Victoria. The company was founded in 1856 as a saddlery business, but later moved into the automotive field, becoming a subsidiary of General Motors (GM) in 1931. Holden has taken...
Date founded:
- 1856
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Honda Motor Company, Ltd
Honda Motor Company, Ltd. (Japanese: 本田技研工業株式会社, Honda Giken Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha, Honda Technology Research Institute Company, Limited) listen (help·info) (TYO: 7267) is a Japanese multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of...
Date founded:
- Sep 24, 1948
Jeep
Jeep is an automobile marque (and registered trademark) of Chrysler. It is the oldest off-road vehicle (also sport utility vehicle – SUV) brand, with Land Rover coming in second. The original vehicle which first appeared as the prototype Bantam BRC...
Date founded:
- 1941
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Koenigsegg
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...
Date founded:
- 1993
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Lexus
Lexus is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation. First introduced in 1989 in the United States, where Lexus has ranked as the highest-selling maker of luxury cars, as of 2006 Lexus vehicles are sold in 68...
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- 1989
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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...
Date founded:
- 1948
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Škoda Auto
Škoda Auto (Czech pronunciation: [ˈʃkoda] ( listen)), more commonly known as Škoda, is an automobile manufacturer based in the Czech Republic. Škoda became a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group in 1991. Its total sales reached 674,530 cars in 2008....
Date founded:
- 1895
Volkswagen Passenger Cars
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...
Date founded:
- 1937
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Volkswagen Group
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,...
Date founded:
- 1937
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Alfa Romeo
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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Hyundai Motor Company
Hyundai Motor Company (Korean: 현대 자동차 주식회사, Hanja: 現代自動車株式會社 Hyŏndae Chadōngch'a Chusik-hoesa) (KRX: 005380), a division of the Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, is the world’s fourth largest automaker in terms of units sold and one of the Big Asian...
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- Dec 29, 1967
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Fiat
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...
Date founded:
- 1899
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Citroën
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...
Date founded:
- 1919
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Peugeot
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...
Date founded:
- 1882
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Lincoln
Lincoln is the luxury brand of Ford Motor Company. Founded in 1917 by Henry M. Leland and acquired by Ford in 1922, Lincoln has manufactured vehicles since the 1920s. Leland named the brand after his longtime hero Abraham Lincoln.
The company was...
Date founded:
- 1917
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Maserati
Maserati is an Italian car manufacturer established on December 1, 1914, in Bologna. The company's headquarters are now in Modena, and its emblem is a trident. It has been owned by the Italian car giant Fiat S.p.A. since 1993. Inside the Fiat Group,...
Daimler-Benz
Daimler-Benz AG was a German manufacturer of automobiles, motor vehicles, and internal combustion engines; which was founded in 1926. An Agreement of Mutual Interest - which was valid until year 2000 - was signed on 1 May 1924 between Karl Benz's...
Date founded:
- 1926
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Moskvitch
Moskvitch (Russian: Москвич) (sometimes also mentioned as Moskvich or Moskwitch which means "A Moskovite" which in this case was implemented since the car brand was founded in Moscow) was an automobile brand from Russia.
In 1929 the construction of...
Date founded:
- 1929
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GAZ
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...
Date founded:
- 1929
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UAZ
UAZ (УАЗ), Ulyanovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (Ульяновский Автомобильный Завод) is an automobile manufacturer based in Ulyanovsk, Russia which makes SUVs, buses and trucks. Production started in 1941.
In 1941, after the start of Great Patriotic War,...
Date founded:
- 1941
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Tatra
Tatra is a vehicle manufacturer in Kopřivnice (Nesselsdorf in German), Czech Republic. The company was founded in 1850 as Schustala & Company later renamed Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriksgesellschaft, a wagon and carriage manufacturer, and in 1897...
Date founded:
- 1850
Abarth
Abarth is an Italian racing car maker founded by Italian-Austrian Karl (Carlo) Abarth in Turin in 1949.
In the 1960s, Abarth & C. S.r.l was quite successful in hillclimbing and sports car racing, mainly in classes from 850cc up to 2000cc, competing...
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Spyker
Spyker was a Dutch car manufacturer, started in 1880 by coachbuilders Jacobus and Hendrik-Jan Spijker, but to be able to market the brand better in foreign countries, in 1903 the 'ij' was changed into 'y'. They were originally based in Hilversum but...
Date founded:
- 1880
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AC Cars Group Ltd.
AC Cars Group Ltd. formerly known as Auto Carriers Ltd. is a British specialist automobile manufacturer and one of the oldest independent car marques founded in Britain. The most recent manufacturing location of AC is Hal Far, Malta but this has now...
Date founded:
- 1901
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Jaguar
Jaguar Cars Ltd., better known simply as Jaguar (pronounced [ˈdʒæɡjuːər]) is a British luxury car manufacturer, headquartered in Coventry, England. It has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Indian company Tata Motors Ltd. since March 2008 and is...
Date founded:
- 1922
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Tata Group
The Tata Group (Hindi: टाटा समूह) is a multinational conglomerate based in Mumbai, India. In terms of market capitalization and revenues, Tata Group is the largest private corporate group in India and has been recognized as one of the most respected...
Date founded:
- 1868
Saturn
Saturn LLC is a subsidiary of General Motors Company, established on January 7, 1985, in response to the success of Japanese small-car imports in the United States. As a "different kind of car company," Saturn operated outside the GM superstructure...
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- Jan 7, 1985
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Renault
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...
Date founded:
- Feb 25, 1899
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Simca
Simca was a French automaker and marque, founded in 1934 by Henri Théodore Pigozzi (1898-1964). Simca was originally affiliated with Fiat, but later, after a period of independence, when Simca bought Ford's French branch, became increasingly...
Date founded:
- 1934
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SEAT
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...
Date founded:
- 1950
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Borgward
Borgward was a German automobile manufacturer founded by Carl F. W. Borgward (November 10, 1890 - July 28, 1963). The company was based in Bremen. The Borgward group eventually produced cars with the four brands Borgward, Hansa, Goliath and Lloyd....
Date founded:
- 1929
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Napier & Son
D. Napier & Son Limited was a British engine and pre-Great War (the 'brass era') automobile manufacturer and one of the most important aircraft engine manufacturers in the early- to mid-20th Century. Their post-World War I Lion was the most powerful...
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De Lorean Motor Company
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...
Date founded:
- Oct 24, 1975
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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...
Date founded:
- 1924
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Proton
Proton is a Malaysian automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shah Alam, Selangor, with a manufacturing plant in Tanjung Malim, Perak. Founded in 1983, it was Malaysia's only carmaker until the establishment of its competitor Perodua in 1993. Its...
Date founded:
- 1983
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Eagle
Eagle was a marque of the Chrysler Corporation following the purchase of American Motors Corporation (AMC) and aimed at the enthusiast driver.
Though short-lived, the Eagle Vision sedan sold in respectable numbers, while the sporty Eagle Talon sold...
Date founded:
- 1988
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Edsel
The Edsel was a brand of car of the Ford Motor Company during the 1958, 1959, and 1960 model years. Due to it's disastrous history, the word "Edsel" has become synonymous with failure.
In the early 1950s, the Ford Motor Co. became a publicly traded...
Date founded:
- 1958
