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Here is the most completed list about all car brands, with its basic information, links to official sites, car logos etc. Alfa Romeo The cars built by this manufacturer have a certain allure to them. Not only they have a very stylish design, they also provide all the comfort that a person needs while driving them. The company was founded back in 1910 and exported cars all over the world. They had a time in which they didn’t ship to the US for different reasons, but in recent years the exporting was renewed, so Americans can also enjoy these luxurious cars. Alfa Romeo has come with one of the most unique body designs and has received quite a lot of awards over the years. Official Site of Alfa Romeo : www.alfaromeo.com Headquarters: Italy Owner(s) : Fiat Group Abarth Abarth is a racing car and road car maker founded by Carlo Abarth of Turin in 1949.[1] Its logo is a shield with a stylized scorpion on a red and yellow background. Official Site of Abarth : http://www.abarth.it/ Headquarters: Turin, Italy Owner(s) : Fiat Group

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Page 1: Car Brands List

Here is the most completed list about all car brands, with its basic information, links to official sites, car

logos etc.

Alfa Romeo

The cars built by this manufacturer have a certain allure to them. Not only they have a very stylish design,

they also provide all the comfort that a person needs while driving them. The company was founded back

in 1910 and exported cars all over the world. They had a time in which they didn’t ship to the US for

different reasons, but in recent years the exporting was renewed, so Americans can also enjoy these

luxurious cars. Alfa Romeo has come with one of the most unique body designs and has received quite a

lot of awards over the years.

Official Site of Alfa Romeo : www.alfaromeo.com

Headquarters: Italy

Owner(s) : Fiat Group

Abarth

Abarth is a racing car and road car maker founded by Carlo Abarth of Turin in 1949.[1] Its logo is a shield

with a stylized scorpion on a red and yellow background.

Official Site of Abarth : http://www.abarth.it/

Headquarters: Turin, Italy

Owner(s) : Fiat Group

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Bentley

Bentley Motors Limited is a British luxury automaker, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the German

Volkswagen AG. Its principal activity is the design, engineering, manufacture and distribution of luxury

automobiles sold under the Bentley marque. Based in Crewe, England, Bentley Motors Limited was

founded by W. O. Bentley on 18 January 1919 in Cricklewood near London and was acquired by Rolls-

Royce in 1931.

Bentley Motors Limited is the direct successor of Rolls-Royce Motors, which Volkswagen AG purchased

in 1998. The purchase included the vehicle designs, model nameplates, production and administrative

facilities, the Spirit of Ecstasy and Rolls-Royce grill shape trademarks, but not the rights to the use of the

Rolls-Royce name or logo, which are owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings plc and were later licensed to BMW

AG.

Headquarters: Crewe, England, United Kingdom

Official Site of Bentley : http://bentleymotors.com/

Owner(s) : Volkswagen AG

BMW

BMW was created in 1916 and since then it created anything from race cars to sports cars and luxury

cars. Their main target remains the creation of premium, high quality cars. People know that this is one of

the best car companies in the world, as they create high standard cars with amazing performance, added

luxury on the inside as well as outside, comfort and also high speeds.

Headquarters: Munich, Germany

Official Site of BMW : http://bmwgroup.com/

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Chevrolet

Chevrolet , colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors LLC, is

a brand of automobiles produced by American automaker General Motors (GM). Louis Chevrolet and

ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant started the company on November 3, 1911 as the

Chevrolet Motor Car Company. Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a controlling

stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2, 1918 and propelled himself back to

the GM presidency.

Headquarters: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Official Site of Chevrolet : http://www.chevrolet.com/

Owner(s) : General Motors Company

Cadillac

Cadillac formally the Cadillac Motor Car Division, is a division of U.S.-based General Motors Company

(GM) that markets luxury vehicles worldwide. Cadillac’s primary markets are the United States, Canada,

and China, but Cadillac-branded vehicles are distributed in 34 additional markets worldwide. In 2012,

Cadillac’s U.S. sales were 149,782 vehicles.

Headquarters: Detroit, Michigan, United States

Official Site of Cadillac : http://www.cadillac.com/worldwide.html

Owner(s) : General Motors Company

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Dacia

Automobile Dacia S.A is a Romanian car manufacturer, named for the historic region that constitutes

much of present-day Romania. It is now a subsidiary of the French carmaker Renault. The company is

the largest exporter from Romania with 7.9% of total exports in 2011.The Dacia manufacturing plant in

Mioveni, Argeș County is currently Europe’s fifth biggest car manufacturing facility in terms of volume

produced with a total of 412,718 units (cars + CKD collections) delivered in 2013.

Headquarters: Mioveni, Argeș, Romania

Official Site of Dacia : http://www.daciagroup.com/en

Owner(s) : Renault

Daihatsu

First known as Hatsudoki Sieze Co.; Ltd, Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd was founded in 1907. It is a Japanese

company that manufactures cars. This company was known for their off roader models and their small

sized cars. It was renamed as Daihatsu Motor in 1951, which means “engine manufacturer.” In this year,

it also started exporting cars to Europe, but it did not work out well until the year 1980.

Headquarters: Osaka, Japan

Official Site of Daihatsu: http://www.daihatsu.com/

Owner(s) : Toyota Group (51.2%)

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Elfin

Elfin Sports Cars Pty Ltd is the current name of the car company which was founded by Garrie Cooper. It

has been an Australian manufacturer of sports cars and motor racing cars since 1957.

Elfin is the oldest continuous sports car maker in Australia and one of the most successful with 29

championships and major Grand Prix titles.The original factory was located at Conmurra Avenue,

Edwardstown in suburban Adelaide, South Australia. The company is currently located is at Braeside, a

suburb of Melbourne, Australia.

Headquarters: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Official Site of Elfin : http://www.elfin.com.au/

Owner(s) : Walkinshaw Performance

Fiat

Fiat was founded in 1899 by a small group of investors. They create road vehicles, but on top of that, they

are also specialized in the commercialization of car components as well. For a brief time, they were are

suppliers of metallurgical products as well. The manufacturer received the European Car of the Year

award 12 times, but, on top of that, it’s also widely recognized in the world for the quality products they

provide.

Headquarters: Turin, Italy

Official Site of Fiat : http://www.fiatspa.com/

Owner(s) : Exor(30.05%)

Ferrari

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The company was created in 1929 and since then they are specialized in creating the best luxury sports

cars in the world. The first cars created by them were not street legal, as they had tremendous amounts

of power as well as high speeds that really surpassed the powers of the vehicles at that time. After the

two world wars, they began creating street legal cars. They created a lot of supercars and concept cars

that really put the drivers to the test, as they have an amazing design and insane speeds. Ferrari also

made quite a name in driving competitions, especially in Formula 1, where it’s one of the top players for

more than 2 decades.

Headquarters: Maranello, Italy

Official Site of Ferrari : http://www.ferrari.com/

Owner(s) : Fiat S.p.A.

Ford

The Ford Motor Company (also known as simply Ford) is an American multinational automaker

headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It was founded by Henry Ford and

incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford

brand and most luxury cars under the Lincoln brand. Ford also owns Brazilian SUV manufacturer, Troller,

and performance car manufacturer FPV. In the past it has also produced tractors and automotive

components. Ford owns a 2.1% stake in Mazda of Japan, a 15% stake in Aston Martin of the United

Kingdom, and a 49% stake in Jiagling of China. It also has a number of joint-ventures, two in China

(Changan Ford Mazda and Ford Lio Ho), one in Thailand (AutoAlliance Thailand), one in Turkey (Ford

Otosan), and one in Russia (Ford Sollers). It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is controlled

by the Ford family, although they have minority ownership. It is described by Forbes as “the most

important industrial company in the history of the United States.

Headquarters: Dearborn, Michigan, U.S.

Official Site of Ford : http://corporate.ford.com/

Owner(s) : Ford Family (2%)

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GMC

GMC, formally the GMC Division of General Motors LLC, is an American automobile division of the

American manufacturer General Motors (GM) that primarily focuses on trucks and utility vehicles. GMC

sells pickup and commercial trucks, buses, vans, military vehicles, and sport utility vehicles marketed in

North America and the Middle East by General Motors. In January 2007, GMC was GM’s second-largest-

selling North American vehicle division after Chevrolet, ahead of Pontiac.

Headquarters: Detroit, United States

Official Site of GMC : http://www.gmc.com/

Owner(s) : General Motors Company

Gaz

GAZ or Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod), translated as Gorky Automobile Plant

started in 1932 as NAZ, a cooperative enterprise between Ford and the Soviet Union, as a result of a Five

year plan.

GAZ is the core company of GAZ Group holding, a part of Basic Element business group. The

headquarters of GAZ Group is located in Nizhny Novgorod. Russian Machines Corporation is the

controlling shareholder in OAO GAZ.

Headquarters: Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Official Site of Gaz: http://www.azgaz.ru/

Owner(s) : Oleg Deripaska

Honda

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Honda Motor Co., Ltd. is a Japanese public multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer

of automobiles and motorcycles.

Honda has been the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world’s largest

manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than 14 million

internal combustion engines each year.Honda became the second-largest Japanese automobile

manufacturer in 2001. Honda was the eighth largest automobile manufacturer in the world behind

General Motors, Volkswagen Group, Toyota, Hyundai Motor Group, Ford, Nissan, and PSA in 2011.

Headquarters: Minato, Tokyo, Japan

Official Site of Honda : http://world.honda.com/

Owner(s) : Tokyo Bank Corporation (50,49%)

Hyundai

The Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in

Seoul, South Korea. The company was founded in 1967 and, along with its 32.8% owned subsidiary, Kia

Motors, together comprise the Hyundai Motor Group, which is the world’s fifth largest automaker based

on annual vehicle sales in 2012. In 2008, Hyundai Motor (without Kia) was ranked as the eighth largest

automaker. As of 2012, the Company sold over 4.4 million vehicles worldwide in that year, and together

with Kia total sales were 7.12 million.

Hyundai operates the world’s largest integrated automobile manufacturing facility in Ulsan, South Korea,

which has an annual production capacity of 1.6 million units. The company employs about 75,000 people

worldwide. Hyundai vehicles are sold in 193 countries through some 6,000 dealerships and showrooms.

Headquarters: Seoul, South Korea

Official Site of Hyundai : http://worldwide.hyundai.com/

Owner(s) : Hyundai Motor Group

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Isuzu

Isuzu Motors Ltd. trading as Isuzu is a Japanese commercial vehicles and diesel engine manufacturing

company headquartered in Tokyo. Its principal activity is the production, marketed and sale of Isuzu

commercial vehicles and diesel engines.

Isuzu has assembly and manufacturing plants in Fujisawa, as well as in the Tochigi and Hokkaidō

prefectures. Isuzu-branded vehicles are sold in most commercial markets worldwide. By 2009, Isuzu had

produced over 21 million diesel engines, which can be found in vehicles all over the world. Isuzu diesel

engines are used by General Motors and Renault-Nissan Alliance.

Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan

Official Site of Isuzu: http://www.isuzu.co.jp/world/index.html

Infiniti

Infiniti is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Company. Infiniti officially

started selling vehicles on November 8, 1989 in North America. The marketing network for Infiniti-branded

vehicles now includes over 230 dealers in over 15 countries.

With its QX60 crossover (formerly known as JX35) Infiniti began to produce vehicle outside Japan. In

2014, it is expected to start producing two models in Xiangyang, China, a plant operated by Nissan’s joint

venture with Dongfeng Motor.It is also expanding in Sunderland, England, to produce a new compact car

named Q30 in 2015.

Headquarters: 3 Garden Road, Central, Hong Kong

Official Site of Infiniti : http://www.infiniti.com/

Owner(s) : Nissan Motor Company

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Jeep

Jeep is a brand of American automobiles that is a division of Chrysler Group LLC, a wholly owned

subsidiary of Italian multinational automaker Fiat S.p.A..The former Chrysler Corporation acquired the

Jeep brand, along with the remaining assets of its owner American Motors, in 1987. Jeep’s product range

current consists solely of sport utility vehicles and off-road vehicles, but has also included pickup trucks in

the past.

The original Jeep vehicle that first appeared as the prototype Bantam BRC became the primary light 4-

wheel-drive vehicle of the United States Army and Allies during World War II, as well as the postwar

period. Many Jeep variants serving similar military and civilian roles have since been created in other

nations.

Headquarters: Toledo, Ohio; Auburn Hills, Michigan, US

Official Site of Jeep: http://www.jeep.com/

Owner(s) : Chrysler Group LLC

Jaguar

Jaguar Cars is a brand of Jaguar Land Rover, a British multinational car manufacturer headquartered in

Whitley, Coventry, England, owned by Tata Motors since 2008.Jaguar cars today are designed in Jaguar

Land Rover’s engineering centres at the Whitley plant in Coventry and at their Gaydon site in

Warwickshire, and are manufactured in Jaguar’s Castle Bromwich assembly plant in Birmingham with

some manufacturing expected to take place in the Solihull plant.

In September 2013 Jaguar Land Rover announced plans to open a 100 million GBP (160 million USD)

research and development centre in Warwick, United Kingdom to create a next generation of vehicle

technologies. The carmaker said around 1,000 academics and engineers would work there and that

construction would start in 2014.

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Headquarters: Whitley, Coventry, United Kingdom

Official Site of Jaguar: http://www.jaguar.com/

Owner(s) : Tata Motors

Koenigsegg

Koenigsegg Automotive AB is a Swedish manufacturer of high-performance sports cars, also known as

hyper-cars, based in Ängelholm. The company was founded in 1994 in Sweden by Christian von

Koenigsegg, with the intention of producing a world-class supercar. Many years of development and

prototyping led to the company’s first street-legal production car delivery in 2002.

In March 2009 the Koenigsegg CCXR was chosen by Forbes to be one of the ten most beautiful cars in

history.In December 2010 the Koenigsegg Agera won the BBC Top Gear Hypercar of the Year Award.

Headquarters: Ängelholm, Scania, Sweden

Official Site of Koenigsegg: http://www.koenigsegg.com/

Lamborghini

The company was founded back in 1963 in Italy and it’s specialized in the creation of luxury sports cars

that most of the time come in very limited editions. Few people know this, but they also created a lot of

SUVs during their history. They were acquired by Audi back in 1998, but they still create some of the

most amazing and fast cars in the world. With a unique body design and lots of comfort, these cars are

just a breeze to ride. Their cars come with very exotic designs and received numerous awards all over the

world.

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Headquarters: Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy

Official Site of Lamborghini: http://lamborghini.com/en/home/

Owner(s) : Audi AG

Land Rover

Land Rover is a brand of the British car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, which specialises in four-

wheel-drive vehicles. Jaguar Land Rover, with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, was acquired by

Tata Motors in 2008.

Land Rover is the second oldest four-wheel-drive car brand in the world (after Jeep).

In June 2008, Ford sold both Land Rover and Jaguar Cars to the Indian Tata Motors. This sale also

included the dormant Rover brand.

Headquarters: Whitley, Coventry, United Kingdom

Official Site of Land Rover: http://www.landrover.com/

Owner(s) : Tata Motors

Lancia

Lancia Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian automobile manufacturer founded in 1906 by Vincenzo Lancia

which became part of the Fiat Group in 1969.

The company has a strong rally heritage and is noted for using letters of the Greek alphabet for its model

names.

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Headquarters: Turin, Italy

Official Site of Lancia: http://www.lancia.com/

Owner(s) : Fiat S.p.A.

Lincoln

The Lincoln Motor Company is a division of the Ford Motor Company that sells luxury vehicles under the

Lincoln brand. While sold primarily in North America and the Middle East, Ford is planning to bring the

Lincoln brand to China by the end of 2014. Founded in 1917 by Henry M. Leland, Lincoln has been a

subsidiary of Ford since 1922.

The current Lincoln model range in North America consists of two sedans (MKS and MKZ), three CUVs

(MKT, MKX, and 2015 MKC), and two SUVs (Navigator/Navigator L). Lincoln also sells two vehicles

specifically for limousine/livery use, both based on the MKT. In Mexico, Lincoln sells the Lincoln Mark LT

pickup truck which is based on the Ford F-150.

Headquarters: Dearborn, Michigan, U.S.

Official Site of Lincoln: http://www.lincoln.com/

Owner(s) : Ford Motor Company

Lexus

Lexus is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation. First introduced in

1989 in the USA, Lexus is now sold globally and has become Japan’s largest-selling make of premium

cars. The Lexus marque is marketed in over 70 countries and territories worldwide, and has ranked

among the ten largest Japanese global brands in market value. Lexus is headquartered in Nagoya,

Japan. Operational centers are located in Brussels, Belgium, and Torrance, California, USA.

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Headquarters: Nagoya, Japan

Official Site of Lexus: http://www.lexus-int.com/

Owner(s) : Toyota Motor Corporation

Maserati

Maserati is, just like Ferari, one of the top car manufacturers in the world when it comes to the luxury

sports car segment. The company was founded in 1914 and during the years it had Orsi, Citroen, as well

as Fiat ownership. Recently it has become a part of the sports car group that includes Alfa Romeo. Their

cars are known for their amazing visual expressivity as well as added comfort.

Headquarters: Modena, Italy

Official Site of Maserati: http://www.maserati.com/

Owner(s) : Fiat S.p.A.

Mazda

Mazda Motor Corporation is a Japanese automaker based in Fuchū, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture,

Japan.

In 2007, Mazda produced almost 1.3 million vehicles for global sales, the majority of which (nearly 1

million) were produced in the company’s Japanese plants, with the remainder coming from a variety of

other plants worldwide. In 2011, Mazda was the fifteenth biggest automaker by production worldwide.

Headquarters: Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima, Japan

Official Site of Mazda: http://www.mazda.com/

Owner(s) : Japan Trustee Services Bank (6.0%)

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Maybach

Maybach-Manufaktur was a German luxury car manufacturer.The company was founded in 1909 by

Wilhelm Maybach and his son, originally a subsidiary of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH and was itself

known as Luftfahrzeug-Motorenbau GmbH until 1912.

Today, the ultra-luxury car brand is owned by Daimler AG and based in Stuttgart. Tognum AG based in

Friedrichshafen used to manufacture the commercial Maybach diesel engines under the MTU brand

through its subsidiary MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH.

Daimler announced in November 2011 that Maybach will cease to be a brand by 2013 and manufactured

the last Maybach vehicle in December 2012. This was due to poor sales, with only 3,000 cars sold since

the brand’s revival in 2002. The decision follows almost a decade of trying to make Maybach a profitable

rival to Rolls Royce and Bentley.

Headquarters: Stuttgart, Germany

Official Site of Maybach: http://www.maybach-manufaktur.com/

Owner(s) : Daimler AG

McLaren

McLaren Automotive, commonly referred to as McLaren, is a British automotive manufacturer of high-

performance vehicles. The company was established as McLaren Cars in 1989 as a producer of road

cars based on Formula One technology. It works closely with McLaren Racing, the successful Formula

One constructor, and is a spinoff of McLaren Group.

Headquarters: Woking, Surrey, England

Official Site of McLaren: http://www.mclarenautomotive.com/

Owner(s) : McLaren Group

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Mercedes Benz

Founded in 1926, this company has created some of the most durable and visually impressive cars on

the market. On top of that, when it comes to comfort, there’s nothing close that can match it. Over the

years, the company also specialized in the creation of other types of vehicles as well, namely trucks,

busses, limousines, vans, etc. They create a wide range of vehicles, and also innovate a lot, being one of

the world leaders when it comes to researching and innovation in the automotive world. Their high end

cars provide all the functions that a person can need, with added car safety features, car computer and

other unique functions.

Headquarters: Stuttgart, Germany

Official Site of Mercedes Benz: http://www.mercedes-benz.com/

Owner(s) : Daimler AG

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Mini

The Mini is a small economy car made by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors from

1959 until 2000. The original is considered a British icon of the 1960s. Its space-saving front-wheel drive

layout – allowing 80 per cent of the area of the car’s floorpan to be used for passengers and luggage –

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influenced a generation of car makers.[8] The vehicle is in some ways considered the British equivalent of

its German contemporary the Volkswagen Beetle, which enjoyed similar popularity in North America. In

1999 the Mini was voted the second most influential car of the 20th century, behind the Ford Model T.

Headquarters: BMW Group headquarters

Official Site of Mini: http://www.mini.co.uk/

Owner(s) : BMW Group

Mitsubishi

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation is a multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Minato,

Tokyo, Japan. In 2011, Mitsubishi Motors was the sixth biggest Japanese automaker and the sixteenth

biggest worldwide by production.It is part of the Mitsubishi keiretsu, formerly the biggest industrial group

in Japan, and was formed in 1970 from the automotive division of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

Headquarters: Minato, Tokyo, Japan

Official Site of Mitsubishi: http://mitsubishi-motors.com/

Owner(s) : Mitsubishi Group

Nissan

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Nishi-ku,

Yokohama, Japan.The company is in a close alliance with Renault. Carlos Ghosn serves at CEO of both;

technology and production sites are being shared. Nissan is in alliances and joint ventures with other

automakers around the world. Nissan Motor Company sells its cars under the Nissan, Infiniti, Datsun, and

NISMO brands.

Nissan was the sixth largest automaker in the world behind Toyota, General Motors, Volkswagen Group,

Hyundai Motor Group, and Ford in 2012.[8] Taken together, the Renault–Nissan Alliance would be the

world’s fourth largest automaker. Nissan is the leading Japanese brand in China, Russia and Mexico.

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Headquarters: Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan (

Official Site of Nissan: http://www.nissan-global.com/

Owner(s) : Renault (43.4%)

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Opel

Adam Opel AG (Opel) is a German automobile manufacturer headquartered in Rüsselsheim, Hesse,

Germany and a subsidiary of the American General Motors Company. The company designs, engineers,

manufactures and distributes Opel-branded passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles and vehicle

parts for distribution in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America. Opel designed and manufactured

vehicles are also sold under the Buick brand in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China and the

Vauxhall brand in the United Kingdom.

Headquarters: Rüsselsheim, Germany

Official Site of Opel: http://opel.com/

Owner(s) : General Motors

Peugeot

The company that now holds the name Peugeot was actually founded back in 1810 as a bicycle and

coffee mill manufacturer. The first car was created in 1889 and, since then, the brand has created

numerous car models that simply became the delight of people that love quality cars. In 1974 Peugeot

bought 30% of Citroën, and it took it over completely in 1975. However, the company still keeps separate

identities for the two brands, although it does share the technical and engineering resources. As

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expected, Peugeot has lots of factories in and outside France, as it has extended to Spain, Brazil,

Slovakia, Czech republic, Japan, Indonesia, Portugal, Iran and Italy, among others.

Headquarters: Sochaux, France

Official Site of Peugeot: http://www.peugeot.com/

Owner(s) : PSA Peugeot Citroën (Peugeot S.A.)

Porsche

This company is based in Stuttgart and, since its creation back in 1931, it has created only sports cars.

Their consumer models offer various high end functions as well as high speeds, so they are really an

attraction for the younger crowd. They also created lots of race models during the years, with the Carrera

GT model being one of the most popular. They also have numerous concept car that showcase the

amount of research this company undertakes in the technology sector. Few people know this, but

Porsche also created quite a lot of tractors that are used all over the world.

Headquarters: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Official Site of Porsche: http://www.porsche.com/

Owner(s) : Porsche-Piëch family (50% of equity, 100% of voting power)

Renault

This manufacturer started the fabrication of cars back in 1899. Since then it has created numerous car

types, such as vans, race cars, normal cars, but also trucks, tractors, tanks and buses. They were always

specialized in fulfilling the needs of all industry sectors, and still provide one of the best cars that can be

found on the market. Their cars also have a large success in motor sport competitions, such as Formula

1. They have numerous subsidiaries all over the world, in Romania, India, Spain, Russia, Argentina,

Turkey and Morocco, among others. They won the European car of the year awards 6 times in the last 40

years, the most recent award being received for their Renault Clio III model back in 2006.

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Headquarters: Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Official Site of Renault: http://www.renault.com/

Owner(s) : APE (15.01%)

Rolls Royce

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited engineers, manufactures and distributes luxury automobiles and

automobile parts worldwide. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of BMW AG

established in 1998 after BMW licensed the rights to the Rolls-Royce brand name and logo from Rolls-

Royce PLC and acquired the rights to the Spirit of Ecstasy and Rolls-Royce grill shape trademarks from

Volkswagen AG. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited operates from purpose built administrative and

production facilities opened in 2003 across from the historic Goodwood Circuit in Goodwood, West

Sussex, England, United Kingdom. Rolls-Royce Motors Cars Limited is the exclusive manufacturer of

Rolls-Royce branded motor cars since 2003.

Headquarters: Goodwood, England, United Kingdom

Official Site of Rolls Royce: http://rolls-roycemotorcars.com/

Owner(s) : BMW AG

Seat

SEAT, S.A. is a Spanish automobile manufacturer with its head office in Martorell, Spain. It was founded

on May 9, 1950, by the Instituto Nacional de Industria (INI), a state-owned industrial holding company.

It is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of the German Volkswagen Group, as a member of the now-

defunct Audi Brand Group, together with Audi and Lamborghini, and marketed as a car maker with a

youthful sporty profile.Within the Volkswagen Group and under the Audi Brand Group, the SEAT brand

itself has been developed as a group with subsidiary companies (SEAT Group) and ‘SEAT, S.A.’ as the

parent company.

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The name SEAT previously stood for the acronym Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo

(Spanish Touring Car Company, in English)

Headquarters: Martorell, Spain

Official Site of Seat : http://www.seat.com/

Owner(s) : Volkswagen Group

Skoda

Škoda Auto , more commonly known as Škoda, is an automobile manufacturer based in the Czech

Republic. Škoda became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group in 2000, positioned as the

entry brand to the group. Its total global sales reached 939,200 cars in 2012

2012 saw an emission-free fleet of Octavia Green E Line e-cars on Czech roads in use of external

partners. Since internal tests in late 2011, the e-fleet drove more than 250,000 km. During this very year

Škoda celebrated several milestones, for instance fourteen millions Škoda cars since 1905 (January),

three millions Fabias (May), 500,000 Superbs from Kvasiny plant (June ) and 5 years of Škoda operations

in China.

Headquarters: Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

Official Site of Skoda: http://skoda-auto.com/

Owner(s) : Volkswagen Group

Subaru

Subaru is the automobile manufacturing division of Japanese transportation conglomerate Fuji Heavy

Industries (FHI), the twenty-second biggest automaker by production worldwide in 2012.

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Subaru is known for its use of the boxer engine layout in most of its vehicles above 1500 cc as well as its

use of the all wheel drive drive-train layout since 1972, with it becoming standard equipment for mid-size

and smaller cars in most international markets as of 1996, and now standard in most North American

market Subaru vehicles. The lone exception is the RWD BRZ introduced in 2012. Subaru also offers

turbocharged versions of their passenger cars, such as the Impreza WRX.

Fuji Heavy Industries, the parent company of Subaru, is currently in a partial partnership with Toyota

Motor Corporation, which owns 16.5% of FHI.

Subaru is the Japanese name for the Pleiades star cluster (M45, or “The Seven Sisters”), which in turn

inspires the Subaru logo and alludes to the companies that merged to create FHI.

Headquarters: Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Official Site of Subaru: http://www.subaru-global.com/

Owner(s) : Fuji Heavy Industries

Suzuki

Suzuki Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Minami-ku,

Hamamatsu, Japan, which specializes in manufacturing automobiles, four-wheel drive vehicles,

motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other

small internal combustion engines. In 2011, Suzuki was the tenth biggest automaker by production

worldwide. Suzuki employs over 45,000 and has 35 main production facilities in 23 countries and 133

distributors in 192 countries.[citation needed] According to statistics from the Japan Automobile

Manufacturers Association (JAMA), Suzuki is Japan’s second-largest manufacturer of small cars and

trucks.

Headquarters: Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Official Site of Suzuki: http://www.globalsuzuki.com/

Owner(s) : Volkswagen Group (19.9%)

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Tesla

Tesla Motors, Inc. is an American company that designs, manufactures and sells electric cars and electric

vehicle powertrain components. Tesla Motors is a public company that trades on the NASDAQ stock

exchange under the symbol TSLA. In the first quarter of 2013, Tesla posted profits for the first time in its

ten year history.

Tesla Motors first gained widespread attention by producing the Tesla Roadster, the first fully electric

sports car. The company’s second vehicle was the Model S, a fully electric luxury sedan.

Tesla also markets electric powertrain components, including lithium-ion battery packs, to automakers,

including Daimler and Toyota. Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, has said he envisions Tesla as an independent

automaker, aimed at eventually offering electric cars at a price affordable to the average consumer.

Headquarters: Palo Alto, California, USA

Official Site of Tesla: http://www.teslamotors.com/

Owner(s) : Elon Musk (27%)

Toyota

Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan.

In 2013 the multinational corporation consisted of 333,498 employees worldwide and, as of January

2014, is the fourteenth-largest company in the world by revenue. Toyota was the largest automobile

manufacturer in 2012 (by production). In July of that year, the company reported the production of its 200-

millionth vehicle. Toyota is the world’s first automobile manufacturer to produce more than 10 million

vehicles per year. It did so in 2012 according to OICA, and in 2013 according to company data. As of

November 2013, Toyota was the largest listed company in Japan by market capitalization and by

revenue.

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Headquarters: Toyota, Aichi, Japan

Official Site of Toyota: http://www.toyota-global.com/

Owner(s) : Toyota Group

UAZ

UAZ is an automobile manufacturer based in Ulyanovsk, Russia which manufactures off-road vehicles,

buses and trucks. It is best known for its Model 469 utility vehicle, which has seen wide use as a military

vehicle in the Eastern bloc and around the world. The UAZ factory started production in 1941 as part of

the Soviet war effort.

Headquarters: Ulyanovsk, Russia

Official Site of UAZ: http://www.uaz.ru/

Owner(s) : Sollers JSC

Volkswagen

Since its inception in 1937, this company has created some of the best cars in the world. They say they

create the car of the people, and that’s what they do. They design cars that can be used by the normal

persons day in and day out. Volkswagen cars are known for their durability on the road, with some cars

being able to withstand more than 1 million KM, which is surely a great achievement. This added a lot to

their success, as they now own companies like Seat, Skoda, Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini and Bugatti,

among others. They won numerous Car of the Year awards all over the world, both in Europe and

overseas. In addition, they have created numerous iconic cars, one of the most popular ones being the

Beetle.

Headquarters: Wolfsburg, Germany

Official Site of Volkswagen: http://volkswagenag.com/

Owner(s) : Porsche SE (50.7%)

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Volvo

Aktiebolaget Volvo is a Swedish multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Gothenburg,

Sweden. Its principal activity is the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses, and construction

equipment. Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems, and provides financial services.

Although Volvo was established in 1915 as a subsidiary of AB SKF, a Swedish ball bearing manufacturer,

the auto manufacturer considers itself officially founded on 14 April 1927, when the first car, the Volvo ÖV

4 series, affectionately known as “Jakob”, rolled out of the factory in Hisingen, Gothenburg.

Volvo means “I roll” in Latin, conjugated from “volvere”, in relation to ball bearing. The name Volvo was

originally registered in May 1911 as a separate company within SKF AB and as a registered trademark

with the intention to be used for a special series of ball bearing.

In August 2010, Ford completed its sale of Volvo Cars to the Chinese motor manufacturer Geely

Automobile (Zhejiang Geely Holding Group) for $1.8 billion.

Headquarters: Gothenburg, Sweden

Official Site of Volvo: http://www.volvogroup.com/

Owner(s) : Geely Automobile

Wiesmann

Wiesmann GmbH is a German automobile manufacturer based in Dülmen, Germany. The company was

founded in 1985 by two brothers, engineer Martin Wiesmann and businessman Friedhelm Wiesmann.

The cars are manufactured by hand in Dülmen. The Wiesmann logo portrays a gecko, as they claim their

cars “stick to the road like geckos to a wall”.

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The company originally manufactured custom hard-tops for convertibles, which they continue to do. The

first roadster left the workshop in 1993. As of 2006, they produce the Wiesmann MF 3 and MF 30

roadsters and the Wiesmann GT MF 4 coupé, all of which utilize engine and transmission components

supplied by BMW.

Headquarters: Dülmen, Germany

Official Site of Wiesmann : http://www.wiesmann.com/

Owner(s) : Wiesmann corporation

ZAZ

ZAZ or Zaporizhia Automobile Building Plant is the main automobile manufacturer of Ukraine, based in

the south-eastern city of Zaporizhia. It is also known for its former mother company name, AvtoZAZ.

ZAZ’s products were never held in high esteem by Soviet citizens. In fact, ZAZ’s original mission was to

create a “people’s car”, almost like Volkswagen’s original mission. In May 2009, ZAZ won the international

tender for the production of vehicles for veterans and disabled people of Azerbaijan.

Russian president Vladimir Putin is a proud owner of a 1972 Zaporozhets model.

Headquarters: Zaporizhia, Ukraine

Official Site of ZAZ: http://www.avtozaz.com/en/

Owner(s) : UkrAVTO

ZiL

Zavod imeni Likhachova, more commonly called ZIL is a major Russian truck and heavy equipment

manufacturer, which also produced armored cars for most Soviet leaders, as well as buses, armored

fighting vehicles, and aerosani. The company also produces hand-built limousines and high-end luxury

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sedans in extremely low quantities, primarily for the Russian government. ZIL passenger cars are priced

at the equivalent of models from Maybach and Rolls-Royce, but are largely unknown outside the CIS and

production rarely exceeds a dozen cars per year.

Headquarters: Moscow, Russia

Official Site of ZiL: http://www.amo-zil.ru/

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