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...nd industrialist, co-founder of the car maker [[Renault]], and the brother of [[Louis Renault|Louis]] and [[Fernand Renault]]. ...s it built starting the next year. He died at the age of 31 on 25 May 1903 of severe injuries he sustained the day before in the [[Paris-Madrid race]].

...e of the founders of [[Renault]] and one of the foremost pioneers of the [[automobile]] industry. ...am car workshop or tinkering with old [[Panhard]] engines in the tool shed of the family's second home in Billancourt.

...1910 and 1920, then moving to Wandsworth, London. It got its name from its founders, H.R. Godfrey (1887-1968) and Archibald Frazer Nash (1889-1965). Productio ...he two seat car was very light weighing only about 180 kg so in spite of the low power available 60 mph (100 km/h) was achievable, very re

...tive in the oil and gas business and motorsports racing legacies. The saga of Jim Hall and Chaparral Cars is documented at the [[Permian Basin Petroleum *Jim Hall was inducted into the [[International Motorsports Hall of Fame]] in 1997.

| date of birth = December 25, 1878 | place of birth = La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

...wide as a luxury car manufacturer, while later it turned to the production of marine and aircraft engines as well as other goods. The name of the firm was created from the two surnames of its founders, [[Cesare Isotta]] and [[Oreste Fraschini]], as '''Società Milanese Automo

...o created the system of multi-brand holding companies with different lines of cars. ...old stock, and with the proceeds acquired [[Oldsmobile]]. The acquisitions of Oakland, [[Cadillac|Cadillac]], and parts companies followed in short order

...invention, but Benz patented his work first and, after that, patented all of the processes that made the [[internal combustion engine]] feasible for use ...reated the ''[[Benz Patent Motorwagen|Motorwagen]]'', the first commercial automobile, powered by a [[Internal combustion engine|gasoline engine]]. It had three