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• Donnet
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Donnet''' was a French car maker founded as Donnet-Zedel in 1924 and continuing in business until 1936 ...in 1928 and the Zedel part of the name dropped. Donnet also bought another factory at Nanterre, Seine from [[Vinot et Déguingand]] which although small had r
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• Mound Road Engine
  ...2002, with production shifting to the [[Mack Avenue Engine Complex]]. The factory had been home to Chrysler's production of [[Chrysler LA engine|large-displa ...t were manufactured at [[Warren Truck Assembly]] before shipping them to [[Car dealership|dealership]]s.
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• Bizzarrini
  ...ore failing in 1969. The marque has been revived on a number of [[concept car]]s in the 2000s. ...e '''[[Bizzarrini P538|P538]]''', in 1966. The 1968 '''Manta''' [[concept car]], designed by [[Giorgetto Giugiaro]] of [[Italdesign|ItalDesign]], was a f
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• GAZ-M20 Pobeda
  ...GAZ-M20 Pobeda''' or '''Pobyeda''' (Russian:ГАЗ-М20 Победа) is a passenger car produced in the Soviet Union by [[GAZ]] from 1946 until 1958. It was also l ...he USSR, and the design was licensed to the Polish [[FSO car factory|FSO]] factory in Warsaw, where it was built as the [[Warszawa|Warszawa]] beginning in 19
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• Russo Baltique
  ...}}[[Image:Russo-balt1909stamp.jpg|thumb|right|Stamp with a 1909 Russo-Balt car.]] ...ay car factory RBVZ in Riga, Latvia and after the 1917 revolution a second factory was opened in Saint Petersburg, where they built armoured cars on chassis p
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• Armstrong Electric
  ...rough 1902. The Maple Street factory used by Armstrong to build its first car will be again used for automobile manufacture in 2006 when [[AC Cars]] begi
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• Transparent Factory
  ...opened in 2002. The original German name is '''Gläserne Manufaktur''' (''factory made of glass'', literally ''vitreous manufactory''). Both the German and E The main purpose of the factory is the assembly of Volkswagen's luxury sedan, the [[Volkswagen Phaeton|Phae
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• Warszawa
  ...obeda]], built under license. The Warszawa was the first new-design Polish car built after the Second World War. Warszawas were popular as taxis because o
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• Giacinto Ghia
  After seeing his factory eradicated (1943) he died of heart failure. [[Category:car designers|Ghia, Giacinto]]
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• Léon Bollée
  The Bollée family, all car makers, created three brands: ...n Bollée by Hurtu & Diligeon, only the prototypes were made at the Le Mans factory.
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• Oltcit
  ...ME}} Models}}The '''Oltcit''' (IPA: /olt.'sit/) is a Romanian [[Automobile|car]] developed in co-operation with [[Citroën]] of France in the 1980s. It is The car's name comes from the region of Oltenia in Romania, with 'cit' being an abb
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• Hansa
  ...-Lloyd company, in the Bremen suburb as Hastedt, had been established as a car and truck makers since 1905. ...e factory was conveniently located opposite to his own [[Goliath|Goliath]] factory on Föhrenstrasse in Bremen Hastedt. The range of trucks of Hansa-Lloyd was
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• Bugatti Type 52
  ...] racing car for children. Over 250 examples were produced at the Molsheim factory between 1927 and 1930, and the cars were frequently used both as playthings ...n) when it was found that even children had difficulty with leg room. The car was 130 in (3300 mm) long overall with a 625 mm (24.6 i
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• Westfield SEight
  ...the powerplant - a V8 engine. In kit form they are only available from the factory as a rolling chassis, unlike other Westfield kits which can be bought in co ...i (fuel injected) versions, which are currently the option provided in the factory built vehicles, and TVR Power engines of 4.2 litres. On the whole the V8 is
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• Erwin Komenda
  ...[[car body|bodies]] for the [[VW Beetle]] and various [[Porsche]] [[sports car]]s. ...h better design. During that period Mercedes also developed a streamlined car with [[monocoque]] construction. In October 1931, Komenda resigned his mos
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• Abingdon
  ...assembled [[Automobile|car]] built in small numbers in 1922 and 1923 in a factory in Tyseley, Birmingham. It used an 11-9 hp 1490 cc 4 cylinder [[Dorma
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• Haynes-Apperson
  '''Haynes-Apperson Company''' was a manufacturer of [[Brass Era car|Brass Era]] [[automobile]]s in Kokomo, Indiana from 1896 to 1905. It was th ...ory open 24 hours a day, and two shifts of workers were needed to keep the factory running at capacity.
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• Carl F. W. Borgward
  ...eptember 23, 1938, the ''Carl F. W. Borgward Automobil- und Motorenwerke'' factory is opened in Sebaldsbrück near Bremen. After Kristallnacht, Borgward joine When the factory was destroyed by bombing in 1944, half of the workers were prisoners of war
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• Durant Motors
  ...price point was planned, but never realized; also planned was the "Eagle" car line but it never made it off the drafting tables. ...opping the [[Mason Truck]] and Flint automobile lines and top-selling Star car in April of 1928. In 1929 Locomobile went out of production.
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• Gutbrod
  '''Gutbrod''' was a German [[automobile|car]] manufacturer. The firm was founded by [[Wilhelm Gutbrod]] in 1926. It ori ...ster Scherenberg came from Mercedes and went finally back to Mercedes. The car was produced first in a carburettor version with 26 hp and later also with
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• Bugatti Type 53
  ...1926. Cappa's associate, Antonio Pichetto, handled the development of the car while working at Bugatti. ...t [[Shelsley Walsh]] in June, 1932. Modern tests, however, have shown the car to be quite tractable at speed, and Bugatti's drawings for the Type 53 do s
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• Argyll
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Argyll''' was a Scottish [[motor car]] marque manufactured from 1899 to 1932, and again from 1976 to around 1990 ...lexandria built for the company by now named '''Argyll Motors Ltd.''' This factory was never used to capacity, and the company began to decline after Govan's
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• Standard (Gutbrod)
  ...1950 until 1954. The car was produced by [[Wilhelm Gutbrod]]'s motorcycle factory, and its first model, the [[Standard-Superior]], was designed by [[Josef Ga
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• Moskvich
  ...vod imeni Leninskogo Komsomola'', which means ''Youth Communist League Car Factory''). ...nd always exceeded production, so people had to wait a long time for a new car. Until the 1980s all Moskvitch cars were compact rear-wheel drive sedans an
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• Barley Motor Car Co.
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Barley Motor Car Co.''' was a manufacturer of automobiles in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It manufa ...new company was called '''Barley Manufacturing Co.''' and he reopened the factory at Streator, Illinois and continued to produce the Halladay for a few years
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• Automobilwerk Eisenach
  ...ich later merged to become [[Mercedes-Benz]]. His son Gustav took over the factory that at the end of the 19th century employed 1,300 workers, being one of th ...osses and also, the license to build Decauville motorcars was revoked. The factory started to build cars under the new name, '''Dixi''' (Latin, “I have spok
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• Chenard & Walcker
  ...et Walcker''' was a French automobile manufacturer, from 1901 - 1946. The factory was in Asnières. The 2-litre car of 1922 was the winner of the very first [[24 Hours of Le Mans|Le Mans 24 H
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• Commer
  .... In 1909 the first bus was made. With the outbreak of First World War the factory turned to the manufacture of military vehicles for the British Army and by ...ese in favour of mainstream Renault models and switching production at the factory to production of Renault truck and bus engines in the early 1990s.
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• SeAZ
  * [http://en.seaz.ru/ Serpukhov Motor-car Factory]
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• Yenko Chevrolet
  ...', located in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, was one of largest custom [[muscle car]] shops of the late 1960s and early 1970s. [[Don Yenko]], son of the dealer ...odify [[Chevrolet Corvair|Corvair]] coupes as Stingers for the rest of the car's production run. The last Stinger was a 1969 coupe, after which Corvair p
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• Alta (vehicles)
  ...eek company, for the British racing car and engine manufacturer see [[Alta Car and Engineering Company]]''. ...rently according to Greek law). Powered by a [[Heinkel]] 200cc engine, the car was based on the German [[Fuldamobil]] (also produced by [[Attica|Attica]]
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• Chenard
  ...et Walcker''' was a French automobile manufacturer, from 1901 - 1946. The factory was in Asnières. The 2-litre car of 1922 was the winner of the very first [[24 Hours of Le Mans|Le Mans 24 H
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• Ettore Bugatti
  ...|Type 10]] in the basement of his home. In 1913, Bugatti designed a small car for [[Peugeot]], the [[Peugeot Bébé#Type 19|Type 19 "Bébé"]]. ...mpany lost control of the property. During the war, Bugatti planned a new factory at Levallois in Paris and designed a series of new cars.
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• AV Monocar
  ...s and was based on a design bought from [[Carden|Carden]] and built in the factory that they had previously used. At the peak they had 80 employees. ...Pattern Works out of wood, plywood or even compressed paper. The complete car only weighed about 550 pounds. Engines were rear mounted, air cooled a
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• Mors
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}The '''Mors''' automobile factory was an early car manufacturer, and one of the first to take part in [[automobile racing]], b ...rward given the quality of the roads and racetracks at the time. With this car, [[Henri Fournier]] was able to win the highly significant [[Paris-Berlin r
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• Zimmer
  '''Zimmer Motor Car Company''' is a small car manufacturer localized in the EUA, with 1,400 owners. ...ing Company. The product was manufactured housing, houses constructed in a factory. The company grew and prospered. By the mid 1980's the company had sales of
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• Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau
  ==Car Production== IFA cars were based on the pre war designs of [[DKW]] and made in a factory in Zwickau. The '''F8''' had a two cylinder 684 cc engine and the '''F
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• Streamline Cars Ltd
  ...treamline Cars Ltd''' was the company responsible for making the '''Burney car'''. ...e [[wheelbase]]. The cars were rear engined with twin radiators. The first car used an [[Alvis Cars|Alvis]] front wheel drive chassis effectively turned b
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• Abarth 1000 Pininfarina Record
  |Class = Land Speed Record Car ...was a vehicle designed and built in 1960 to participate in the [[Abarth]] factory's attempts to set a number of international and world speed records. The 10
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• Hillman
  ...ge featuring a 9.76 litre 6 cylinder engine or a 6.4 litre four. A smaller car, the 9 hp of 1913 with a 1357 cc side valve four cylinder, was the first to ...when the Hawk with a 2576 cc (later 3181 cc) side valve straight six. This car was later rebodied and sold as a Humber.
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• Peugeot Type 19 "Bébé"
  Peugeot manufactured only the short car ("Type 19"), but with great success, using their already established BéBé The Peugeot BéBé had the smallest car engine ever produced at the time, with its 855cc.
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• PSA Peugeot Citroën
  ...is period, PSA lost its traditional competitive footing in the [[executive car]] market and has never recovered. ==The Ryton-on-Dunsmore factory==
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• Ferruccio Lamborghini
  ...erruccio Lamborghini''' (April 28, 1916- February 20, 1993) was an Italian car maker and the founder of the [[Lamborghini]] brand. ...odel, the [[Lamborghini Miura|Miura]], was a ground-breaking and legendary car that started the genre of the [[mid-engine design|mid-engined]] [[supercar]
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• Trojan (Racing team)
  The car producer Trojan Limited founded by [[Leslie Hounsfield]] in 1914 in Purley ...s had been produced. Also in 1962 Trojan acquired the [[Elva|Elva]] sports car business and started to make the Mk IV Elva Courier.
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• Clyno
  ...ritish car manufacturing in the 1920s becoming the country's third largest car manufacturer. Based in Pelham Street, Wolverhampton, England they made in e ...ers for a combination machine with Vickers machine gun. With the growth in car sales motor cycle production ceased in 1923.
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• Troll
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}The '''Troll''' was a small car made by Troll Plastik & Bilindustri of Lunde, Norway from 1956 to 1958. It was the first real attempt at car production in Norway, but only five cars were ever built. Trolls are Norweg
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• Davrian
  ...on''' and series production started with the cars being available in [[kit car|kit]] form. A variety of power units were offered including [[Mini]], [[Vol ...apitalised for this and unfortunately went into receivership in 1982. This car was subsequently relaunched as the '''Corry''' and the earlier more basic v
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• Karosserie Baur
  ...lding top for luxury automobiles about the time BMW was building the first car with the BMW name. ...3 series TC1 was built with full factory authorization, and covered in the factory warranty. The roll-bar version or "Top Cabrio" (TC) continued with the E30
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• HUMVEE
  ...ruck produced by [[AM General]] for use of the United States Military. The car can do heavy off-roading and gained popularity during the Gulf War leading ...hut down the brand. The last Hummer to leave the factory, an H3 for rental car company [[Avis]], was completed on May 24, 2010.
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• Henry Meadows Limited
  ..., they expanded into petrol engines in 1922 and in the 1930s built a large factory in Fallings Park, Wolverhampton.
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• Maserati Tipo 151
  | [[Endurance Racing|Endurance]] [[Race Car]] ...ducing 430 bhp and now renumbered as 151/1. The car came back again to the factory in preparation for 1964 when there was a massive change to the frame, the m
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• Bean Cars Ltd.
  ...he 1147 cc 4 cylinder engine was linked to a separate 3 speed gearbox. The car in chassis form initially cost £400 but this was reduced to £245. A four ...verhead valve six cylinder [[Henry Meadows|Meadows]] engine. However, this car was to only last a year with 500 being made. In chassis form it cost £365.
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• Tornado
  ...k axle. Only one was made and still belongs to the original builder of the car. ...in 2 states of tune. This model was available either in component form or factory finished and was praised for having lively performance combined with good r
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• Panther Westwinds
  ...], like the resurrected [[Stutz Blackhawk]] in the United States, became a car for top celebrities to be seen in. Another Panther was the infamous [[Panther 6]], one car was officially built and another copy constructed later (before Panther col
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• Aixam
  ...s-Bains. It was founded in 1983 to make [[microcars]] in the old [[AROLA]] factory after that company failed. In 1992 they started making a range of standard * Mega Monte Carlo (sports car)
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• Wartburg
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}The '''Wartburg''' was a [[automobile|car]] manufactured in East Germany. It had a three-[[cylinder|cylinder]] [[two- The marque goes back to 1898 when a car made by [[Automobilwerk Eisenach]] was named the Wartburg. The name was dro
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• Santana Motors
  '''Santana''' is a Spanish car factory that has been building [[Land Rover]] vehicles under license until 1983.
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• Valerio Colotti
  ...wed by employment with [[Maserati]] (1953-1957), until the company dropped factory works racing. In 1958 he started his own company, known as '''Tec-Mec''' ( ...isted by [[Giorgi Scarlatti]], attempted at the tipo F/415 [[Formula One]] car, mostly based on the [[Maserati 250F]], in which Colotti had been deeply in
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• State Limousines of Israel
  ...d to the highest bullet-proofing classes B6+ and B7. Analysts estimate the car to be worth $750-850 thousand dollars before taxes (around $1 million w/ ta ...he manufacturer's official data, the standard A8 Security has an original, factory-produced, protected passenger compartment, proof against bullets and hand g
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• Eisenacher Motorenwerk
  ...ion of EMW became [[VEB Automobilwerk Eisenach]] and build the [[Wartburg (car)|Wartburg]]. Motorcycle manufacture ended in the 1950's and was replaced by
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• Pinky Lai
  ...strial Design. After answering an advertisement from Ford of Germany for a car designer, in 1978, he ended up receiving a two year scholarship on transpor ...Lagaay]] (also from BMW). Since then, he worked in all the models from the factory, from the [[Porsche Boxster|Boxster]] to the [[Porsche Cayman|Cayman]], and
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• Clan
  ...1971 and 1974, but since then several efforts have been made to bring the car back to production. ...The car was available in either kit of fully built versions. Although the car received good reviews and achieved some competition success, it was expensi
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• ASA
  ...Bizzarrini]] and manufactured by the [[Bizzarrini]] company in Milan (in a factory owned by the De Nora Electrochemical Group) from 1962 to 1969. This small, high-efficiency "[[dream car]]" featured an [[Overhead cam|OHC]] 1032 cc [[four-cylinder]] engine d
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• Concours d'Elegance
  ...s d'Elegance is much more demanding than that of a neighborhood or general car show. Trained judges examine the vehicle thoroughly and in its entirety and ...e (or nickel) plating and mechanical restoration far exceeding that of the car when new.
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• Remote Keyless Entry
  ...ms the appropriate function. Newer systems implement encryption to prevent car thieves from intercepting and spoofing the signal. ...two ways by either providing confirmation of successfully (un-)locking the car through a light or a horn signal. Usually the system offers an option to ea
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• Zavod Imeni Likhocheva
  ...are priced at the equivalent of models from [[Maybach]] and [[Rolls-Royce car|Rolls-Royce]], but are largely unknown outside the CIS and production rarel ...with the help of the U.S. A.J. Brandt Co., changed its name to Automotive Factory No. 2 '''Zavod Imeni Stalina''' ('''ZIS''' or '''ZiS'''). After Nikita Khru
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• Elfin Cars
  ...}}'''Elfin Cars Pty Ltd''' has been an Australian manufacturer of [[sports car]]s and [[motor racing]] cars since 1957. Elfin Sports Cars was purchased in ...d designer and builder of racing and sports/racing cars as '''Elfin Sports Car Company'''.
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• De Tomaso Sport 1000
  ...and heat exchanger for the electrical system. The car was retained by the factory until 2004. ...e 15-inch wheels as the Sport 2000. This car, as well, was retained by the factory until De Tomaso's liquidation in June of 2004.
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• Dietrich-Bugatti
  ...he notice of the [[Baron de Dietrich]]. de Dietrich managed an automobile factory in Niederbronn in Alsace, France, and contracted Bugatti to develop new mod In 1904, Ettore Bugatti and Émile Mathis designed a new car, the '''Type 5''' or '''Hermes'''. It was a prototype of a more-modern mode
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• Porsche 936
  ...tered in numerous endurance races and sportscar championships, both by the factory and privateer teams, and achieved considerable success. ...ion from other vehicles in the Group 5 class, and the team to beat was the factory Renault-Alpine organisation, with their A442. But the 936 was thoroughly de
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• Anadol
  ...ayii]] in Istanbul between 1966 and 1986 and was Turkey's first production car. The Anadol was discontinued in 1986 when the factory turned to making a version of the [[Ford Taunus]].
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• Ranger (GM)
  ...sse SA from Biel-Bienne Switzerland also produced Rangers from 1970 to the factory's end in August 1975.
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• Lăstun
  ...'''Lăstun''', also named '''"Dacia 500"''', was a cost-effective Romanian car for urban transport built between 1986 and 1992. It featured a two cylinder ...g point of excellent fuel economy, there was very little market for such a car assembled in such a manner, and the last few were sold in 1992.
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• Kieft
  ...that built [[Formula 3]] racing cars and some road going sports cars in a factory in Derry St, Wolverhampton. ...rs, failed he bought the designs and used them as a base for his own 500cc car. Several of these were sold and some competition success resulted. Publicit
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• Humber
  ...ers to become part of the [[Rootes Group]]. The range focused on [[luxury car|luxury]] models, such as the [[Humber Super Snipe]]. ...n factory produced a more expensive range known as Beeston-Humbers but the factory closed in 1908 after financial problems. Before the First World War a wide
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• Lancia LC2
  {{Racing Car Infobox | |Notable Entrants = [[Martini Racing]]<br>[[Mussato Action Car]]<br>[[Dollop Racing]]
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• Ogle Design
  * 1959 The company became involved in transport design and small scale car production. ...en]] took over as Managing Director and Chief Designer of the company, and car production ceased.
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• King
  ...Detroit from 1911 to 1923, and in Buffalo in late 1923, with an additional car built in Detroit in 1896. ...l]] served as a form of [[oil pump]].<ref>Georgano, p.824.</ref> The first factory was rented and located at 1559 West Jefferson, but soon outgrew that and mo
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• Darracq
  ...t of the substantial profit he had made from selling his Gladiator bicycle factory, Alexandre Darracq began operating from a plant in the Parisian suburb of S ...lgenon Lee Guinness who set many records over the next few years until the car was retired in 1909 with a broken piston. This V8 Special(see full story at
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• NUMMI
  ...2010. The closing was seen as inevitable for months, amidst protests from factory workers to keep the plant open and in spite of Toyota holding out for as lo [[Category:Car Factory]]
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• H. J. Mulliner
  ...ounded H.J. Mulliner & Co. in 1900 in the Mayfair area of London where the factory was set up. This was probably the premises previously occupied by Mulliners ...]] cars. In 1907, as well as the Northampton works, a new sales office and factory was opened in Long Acre, London. Business boomed during the 1920s with orde
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• Automobiles L. Rosengart
  ...began production of the Rosengart automobile. He bought the old Bellanger factory at Neuilly. ...- surviving as the vastly facelifted LR4 and Vivor long after the British car had been consigned to history.
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• Zaz
  ...ozhskiy avtomobil'nyi zavod'') to produce the copy of [[Fiat 600]]&mdash;a car for the ordinary people. ...hown an unbeaten accessibility and popularity among Soviets, becoming the "car for pensioners and intellectuals".
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• Hotchkiss et Cie
  ...and in 1903 they went on to make complete engines. Encouraged by two major car distributors, Mann and Overton of London and Fournier of Paris, Hotchkiss d The first Hotchkiss car, a 17 CV (13 kW) four-cylinder model, appeared in 1903 followed by a the 40
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• Gray-Dort Motors Ltd.
  .... During this period, they also built bodies for the locally built Chatham car. ...roduced two cars the first year, a Model 4 roadster, and a Model 5 touring car.
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• Moon Motor Car
  '''Moon Motor Car''' was a United States [[automobile]] company, in business c. 1905 - 1930. Moon went out of business at the start of the Great Depression; the Moon factory was purchased by [[Ruxton|Ruxton automobile]].
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• Lotus Elise GT1
  ...e-115''') was a [[race car]] developed for [[grand tourer]]-style [[sports car racing]] starting in 1997. ...tional exposure. [[Porsche]] was the first to start a new breed of racing car in 1996, with their purpose-built homologation special known as the [[Porsc
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• Dick Thompson
  ...until the 1970s, Thompson raced for several notable racers, including the factory Corvette team for [[John Fitch]] and [[Briggs Cunningham]].<ref name=vintag ...e to the track in his [[MG Cars|MG]] [[MG T-type#TD|TD]], and co-drove the car to an eighth place finish.<ref name=vintageracecarjournal /> He caught Corv
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• Sir Henry Royce
  '''Sir Henry Royce''' (March 27, 1863 - April 22, 1933) was a pioneering car manufacturer, who with [[Charles Rolls|Charles Stewart Rolls]] founded the ...gistered. The company was re-registered in 1899 as Royce Ltd and a further factory opened in Trafford Park, Manchester.
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• Peerless
  ...known for building high-quality, precision luxury automobiles. Peerless' factory was located at 9400 Quincy Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio [http://maps.yahoo.com Just as the car was ready to be shipped back to Cleveland, the Board of Directors pulled Pe
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• Carlo Maria Abate
  ...also for [[Scuderia Centro Sud]], [[Scuderia Ferrari]] and the [[Porsche]] factory team. In 1959 he won the [[Mille Miglia]] with G. Balzarini. ...f>[http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/driver/2/Carlo-Mario-Abate.html Ultimate Car Page]</ref>
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• Anzani
  ...don was also added as well as licensed production by other makers. Another factory at Monza, Italy was added in 1914. In 1920 Anzani turned to motor racing and built a small car with one of his 750 cc two cylinder engines, air cooled of course, which wo
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• Métallurgique
  ...400 rpm. The cars got a distinctive V front radiator in 1906. For 1908 the car range included the 60/80 and the 40hp which was a smaller version of the 60 After the First World War car production restarted with the 26hp, which gained Adex 4 wheel brakes, the 2
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• Loremo
  ...m "Loremo" is an abbreviation for ''LOw REsistance MObile''. Initially the car was conceived for emerging markets such as China and India. However, due to ...the company says will become a 157 MPG (1,5 l/100 [[km]]) [[turbodiesel]] car. Two different Loremo models are currently waiting in the pipeline to be pr
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• Bugatti Prototypes
  The [[V16|16-cylinder]] '''Type 45''' racing car and similar '''Type 47''' "Grand Sport" were to become a new generation of ...answer. The first 56 was used as Ettores personal runabout at the Molsheim factory.
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• Trojan
  ...rear wheels. Solid tyres were used, even though these were antiquated for car use, to prevent punctures and very long springs used to give some comfort. ...nning down. This arrangement would continue until 1928 when Leyland wanted factory space for truck production. During the nearly seven years of the agreement
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• Abarth Monoposto da Record
  |Class = Land Speed Record Car ...o set a number of international and world speed records for the [[Abarth]] factory. The Monoposto da Record was one of the last in a line of record cars built
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• Morris
  ...GENAME}} Models}}The '''Morris Motor Company''' was a British [[automobile|car]] manufacturing company. After the incorporation of the company into larger ...First World War the orders were maintained and, from mid-1915 a new larger car, the 2-seat and 4-seat [[Morris Cowley (1915)|Morris Cowley]] was introduce
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• Glasspar G2
  .... It was built as both a production model (in limited numbers) or as a kit car. ...e, was building small fiberglass boat hulls in his Costa Mesa, California, factory and he convinced Ken that fiberglass was the ideal material for the hot rod
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• Bugatti Type 35
  ...ped radiator, and is regarded by many as the most-beautiful pre-war racing car. ...ek. Bugatti organized the [[Targa Florio]] as a special spotlight for this car, and it claimed victory there for five consecutive years, from 1925 through
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• Jaguar XKR GT3
  {{Racing Car Infobox | The '''Jaguar XKR GT3''' is an FIA GT3 Class Race Car created by Apex Motorsport, a company specializing in Le Mans Endurance Rac
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• RUF CTR - 1987-1993
  ...in less than five seconds, and on to a top speed of 211 mph - a production car record at the time. RUF revelled in the publicity gleaned from the production car world record, and on the back of which took 28 orders for RUF CTRs.
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• Automotive spoiler
  ...reasing lift or decreasing drag that may cause unpredictable handling in a car at speed. Spoilers are often fitted to race and high-performance sports car ...ose of reducing the amount of lift naturally generated by the shape of the car.
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• Lola T70
  {{Racing Car Infobox | The '''Lola T70''' was built for sports car racing, popular in the mid to late 1960s. Developed by [[Lola Racing Cars]]
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• Ruxton
  ...rtford, Wisconsin, also built a limited number of Ruxtons; it produced the car’s transmission and running gear for its duration. == A car designed to sell to an automotive company ==
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• Arnolt
  The first was the Arnolt-[[MG]], a four seater Bertone bodied car based on the MG TD chassis and XPAG 54[[hp]] engine. The Arnolt MG was desi ...acement of the TD by the TF), so Arnolt began looking for a larger engined car.
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• Alejandro de Tomaso
  | [[Cooper Car Company|Coop]] | [[Cooper Car Company|Coop]]
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• Porsche 360
  | [[Race car]] | Mid-engined racing car
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• Albrecht Goertz
  ...ica. He eventually moved to Los Angeles and worked at a car wash and in a factory making aircraft engines. In 1938 Goertz rented a garage and showroom and mo ...while driving it he accidentally encountered [[Raymond Loewy]], the famous car designer. Loewy invited Goertz to his office, sent him to college to learn
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• Talbot
  ...and by 1910 50 to 60 cars a month were being made. A Talbot was the first car to cover 100 miles (160 kilometres) in an hour in 1913. ...nt than engineering - the existing models were simply rebadged. The French factory was bought by [[Anthony Lago]] who used [[Talbot-Lago]] as a brand afterwar
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• Apollo (1910 automobile)
  ...d. The famous designer of [[two-stroke engine]]s, [[Hugo Ruppe]], was the factory founder's son; in 1920 Apollo took over his air-cooled [[MAF]] cars. Durin
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• Lotus 340R
  | shipped with 178Bhp with factory kit to 192Bhp{{{ and Torque rating}}} ...sports car]] maunufactured by [[Lotus|Lotus Cars]] in 2000 at their Hethel factory.
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• Guy Motors
  ...cylinder models are thought to have been made. In an attempt to enter the car market futher they bought the [[Star Motor Company]] in 1928 but it failed Guy Motors' factory was closed in 1982.
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• Bentley Mark VI
  ...2, it was also the first car from [[Rolls-Royce Limited|Rolls-Royce]] with factory [[coachwork]].
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• Park Ward
  ...the ''Coupe Napoleon.''<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/973/Bugatti-Type-41-Royale-Park-Ward-Limousine.html|title=Bugatti Type 41 R ...form [[Mulliner Park Ward]]. Operations were centralised in the Willesden factory and a range of bodies produced for the [[Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud|Silver Cl
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• Opperman
  ...Bond Cars Ltd|Bond]] decided to build his own four wheel [[microcar]] at a factory in Elstree, Hetfordshire. ...built it as a kit when it could be had without engine for £170. A complete car cost £400. The body was made in fibreglass mounted on a steel tube chassis
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• BMW V12 LM98
  {{Racing Car Infobox | ...ion and a [[BMW]] powerplant. In 1995 [[McLaren Cars]] entered into sports car racing using their [[McLaren F1 GTR]] in [[grand touring series]] like the
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• Mercury SYNC
  '''Mercury SYNC™''' is a factory-installed, in-car communications and entertainment system developed by [[Ford Motor Company]] ...rd on the [[Lincoln MKZ]] and [[Lincoln MKX]] and is widely available as a factory-installed option on [[Mercury]] and [[Ford]] products. When offered as an o
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• Hispano-Suiza
  ...d then Spanish-French automotive and engineering firm best known for their car, engine and weapon designs in the pre-World War II period. Today they are p ...and became '''Fábrica Hispano-Suiza de Automóviles''' (''Spanish-Swiss Car Factory''), but this company also went bankrupt in December 1903.
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• Berkeley
  ...an attempted merger with [[Bond Cars Ltd|Bond Cars]] come to nothing. The factory was later used by Kayser Bondor to make women's underwear, but it has now b .... It was mounted transversely and drive the front wheels via a chain. The car had all round independent suspension by coil springs and in spite of the ti
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• Monica
  ...nly 8 production cars (as well as 22 prototypes) were completed before the factory closed in 1974, a victim of the 1973 oil crisis.
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• Glas
  ...ed with this vehicle, that he also wanted to produce a motorscooter in his factory. Production started in July 1951 ...2,000 workers produce 1,300 cars of the 5th, 6th and 7th series as well as car bodies for [[Rolls-Royce Limited|Rolls-Royce]].
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• Ruston & Hornsby
  ==The Ruston-Hornsby car== ...d War I they attempted to diversify and one outcome was the Ruston-Hornsby car. Two versions were made, a 15.9 hp with a Dorman 2614&nbsp;cc engine and a
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• Oakland
  ...brand of automobile manufactured between 1907-1909 by the '''Oakland Motor Car Company''' of Pontiac, Michigan and between 1909 and 1931 by the Oakland Mo ...clockwise. This design by [[Alanson Brush]] (inventor of the [[Brush Motor Car Company|Brush Runabout]]) lasted one year and was replaced by a more standa
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• Minerva
  ...he founded ''Société Anonyme Minerva Motors'' in Berchem (Antwerp). Volume car production started in 1904 with a range of two, three and four cylinder mod ...at GBP105 the small 636 cc single cylinder ''Minervette'' was the cheapest car on the market, followed by the Netherlands and France.
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• Mathis
  Originally, Émile Mathis was a leading car dealer in Strasbourg, Alsace, handling [[Fiat]], [[De Dietrich]] and [[Panh ...d models, soon became one of the biggest competitors - the original Mathis factory closed down in 1935. The last models featured a V-shaped windscreen. Matfor
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• Armand Peugeot
  ...powered tricycle at the 1889 World Fair in Paris. They created their first car in their workhouse which is located in eastern France. ...et up his own company, Société Anonyme des Automobiles Peugeot. He built a factory at Audincourt, dedicated to the manufacture of cars with an internal combus
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• Porsche Panamericana
  {{Concept Car Infobox | ...celebrate [[Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche]]'s ( ferry) 80th birthday. The car was based upon the recently-released [[Porsche 964]], in Carrera 4 guise, a
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• Swallow Sidecar Company
  ...nted coachbuilder Cyril Holland to produce a more fashionable body for the car. These Austin Seven Swallows proved popular at a time of economic hardship ...tre of the British car industry. In 1928 they moved into an old ammunition factory in Holbrook Lane, Coventry.
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• Horch
  ...henbach (Vogtland) in March, 1902, where it produced a 20 hp four-cylinder car with a shaft drive. Horch cars were considered much advanced and superior ...our-cylinder engine. In March of the following year, he introduced his new car at the Frankfurt Fair.
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• Ford Sync
  '''Ford Sync''' is a factory-installed, in-car communications and entertainment system developed by [[Ford]] and Microsoft Sync is standard on Lincoln products and widely available as a factory-installed option on Ford and Mercury products. When offered as an option, i
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• Abarth Record Bertone
  |Class = Land Speed Record Car ...to come of this project was the '''Abarth Record Bertone'''. Building the car on the chassis of a [[Fiat 600]], Abarth commissioned a special streamlined
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• Porsche RS Spyder
  ...]], marks Porsche's return to the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]]-type of [[sports car racing]] since the its last entry and overall win there was with the [[Pors ...entered by [[Penske Racing]] and driven by a team of [[Porsche Junioren]] factory drivers. At the Laguna Seca race the sole RS Sypder of [[Lucas Luhr]] and [
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• Stutz Motor Company
  ...ter reborn as '''Stutz Motor Car of America''', was a producer of [[luxury car]]s. Production began in 1911 and continued through 1935. The marque reapp ...[Indianapolis 500]] that year and placed 11th, earning it the slogan, "the car that made good in a day". The next year, the founder, [[Harry Stutz|Harry
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• Rootes
  ...in 1919 by [[William Edward Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes|William Rootes]] as a car sales company, Rootes grew and took over other companies, and became one of ...Following the war, the plant was the main focus of the company's passenger car operations. Rootes also sponsored satellite manufacturing operations around
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• GAZ
  The factory's first model was the medium-priced [[Ford Model A]], sold as NAZ A at firs ...stands for ''Molotovets'' ('of Molotov's fame'), it was the origin of the car's nickname, ''Emka'' (Эмка).
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• De Dion-Bouton
  ...condition and has been a regular entry in the [[London to Brighton Veteran Car Run]]. ...for other automobile companies with an estimate of 150 makes using them. A factory was opened in Brooklyn, New York in 1900 making De Dion cars.
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• Zust
  {{List of Zust Models}}'''Zust''' (originally '''Züst''') was an Italian car manufacturing company operating from 1905 to 1917. ...ed). Due to financial problems, Brixia-Zust closed down in 1912, the Milan factory was sold and production of Zust cars concentrated in Brescia where producti
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• Herbert Austin
  ...ter-2>Lambert (1968), Chapter 2: Experimental Cars</ref>. The Broad Street factory was not large enough so Austin bought a bigger one in Aston, Birmingham.<re ...ne Company and listed for sale in 1900. In 1901 [[Vickers]] bought out the car interests of Wolseley to form the [[Wolseley Motor Company|Wolseley Tool &
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• Lotus Cortina
  The '''Lotus-Cortina''' was a high-performance [[automobile|car]], the result of collaboration between [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] and [[Lo ...nd folcans in period. The Lotus Twincam Motor was never installed from the factory in a four door shell.
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• De Tomaso Mangusta
  ...8 made it tail heavy and prone to sliding. Giorgetto Giugiaro designed the car, which is easily recognised by its [[Gull-wing doors|gull wing]] style door ...ngusta name was revived in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the concept car [[De Tomaso Bigua]] became the [[Qvale Mangusta]], after a dispute between
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• De Tomaso
  [[automobile|car]]-manufacturing company. It was founded by the Argentinian-born [[Alejandro ...various prototypes and racing cars, including a [[Formula One|Formula 1]] car for Frank Williams's team in 1970.
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• Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych
  '''Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych''' ('''FSO''') (literally translated as ''Factory for Passenger Automobiles'') is a Polish automobile manufacturer, located i ...la, to produce [[automobile]]s for post World War II Poland. The first FSO car was the [[FSO Warszawa|''Warszawa'']], manufactured under the Soviet [[GAZ-
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• Lincoln Versailles
  The '''Lincoln Versailles''' was the first [[mid-size car]] from [[Ford Motor Company]]'s [[Lincoln]] division. It was sold from 1977 ...was also given some genuine firsts. The Versailles was the first American car to use halogen headlights and the first to use clearcoat paint, which would
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• Porsche 935
  ...ship for Makes]] with [[Jacky Ickx]] and [[Jochen Mass]] partnering in one car and [[Rolf Stommelen]] and [[Manfred Schurti]] in the other. As in Group 5 ...6]], which ran in the 4.0&nbsp;L class as a [[turbocharger|turbocharged]] car with a penalty factor of 1.4. Weight was 970&nbsp;kg (2136&nbsp;lb).
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• Morgan Aero 8
  ...ar]] designed and currently built by the [[Morgan Motor Company]] in their factory in Malvern Link, Great Britain (an area of Malvern in Worcestershire). ...ag]] transmission. All Aero 8's are built by hand in Morgan's Malvern Link factory., where they are able to produce up to 9 cars a week.
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• Adler
  The Adler factory produced bicycles, typewriters, and motorcycles in addition to cars. Befor ...ylinder engine producing 58 hp (43 kW). Thanks to a streamlined body, this car could run at 125 km/h (78 mph).
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• Enzo Ferrari
  ...tal works, took both he and his brother Alfredo Jr. to Bologna, to watch a car race. After seeing that and other races Enzo Ferrari decided that he wanted He started to wark at the CMN, a small car factory converted at the end of the war. His tasks included test driving, which he
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• Ferdinand Porsche
  ...ge extent on the [[Volkswagen|Volkswagen (Beetle)]] design (sometimes, the car type also is mistakingly called "bug", though that insect is rather flat an After five years with Bela Egger, Porsche joined the local carriage factory Jakob Lohner & Co. He felt attracted to the nascent automotive industry and
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• Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR
  == Racing car== Within 128 days, a car dedicated only to racing was developed. The CLK GTR was built around a carb
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• Volkswagen Group
  ...ond World War in 1945, the British Army took control of the bomb-shattered factory and restarted Beetle production for the difficult post-war years which Germ ...Group' in non-German speaking markets, and is currently the fourth largest car-manufacturer in the world. In 2005 VW sold more than 5.2 million vehicles,
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• Anhui Jianghuai Automobile
  ...ember 1999. The company was previously known as Hefei Jianghuai Automobile Factory, which was founded in [964. The JAC's [[Flagship car|flagship model]] is the [[JAC Refine]]<ref>[http://apps.ah.gov.cn/ahnews/sh
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• Honda Civic Si
  ...'''Honda Civic Si''' is a sport compact / hot hatch version of the compact car [[Honda Civic]] built by the Japanese automaker [[Honda]]. The Si model nam The [[USDM]] car featured a 91&nbsp;hp engine on 13 inch steel wheels.[http://autobytel.espn
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• Lamborghini
  ..., 1916 - February 20, 1993) as a spin-off from his very successful tractor factory, ''Lamborghini Trattori S.p.A.''. Lamborghini and his wife Mariah Geneser, ...actors because he was not able to drive cars. Lamborghini went back to his factory, had his Ferrari's clutch dismantled and realized that the clutch manufactu
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• Chang'An
  ...a]], and [[Ford Mondeo|Mondeo]]s. The company is currently building a new factory in Nanjing to build [[Mazda]] cars. The company's own self-branded vehicle * [http://www.chincarforums.com/forum/ China Car Forums] (in English)
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• Rolls-Royce 20 HP
  ...''Rolls-Royce 20 HP''' built between 1922 and 1929 was Rolls-Royces "small car" for the 1920s and was produced alongside the 40/50 [[Rolls-Royce Silver Gh ...arly cars had 3 speed gearboxes with the change lever in the centre of the car but this changed in 1925 to a four speed unit with traditional right hand c
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• Jaguar D-Type
  | Sports Car ...completion. Production is thought to have included 53 customer D-types, 18 factory team cars, and 16 XKSS versions.
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• Lotus M90
  | Concept Car ...otus M90''' (sometimes referred to as the '''Lotus X100''') is a [[concept car]] that was developed by [[Lotus Cars|Lotus]] using many [[Toyota]] parts. R
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• Avanti
  ...reportedly stated that his company was not interested in building "an ugly car" like the Avanti.
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• Ligier
  ...power-to-weight ratio. The final SMs were also produced in the [[Ligier]] factory in Vichy. The 1973 energy crisis caused such a decline in the market for th ...Prost]] and [[Renault F1|Renault]] had later victories with an all-Renault car and Michelin tyres.</ref>.
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• Jowett
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Jowett''' was a car marque from Bradford, England from 1906 to 1954. ...a further 36 were made before the outbreak of the First World War when the factory was turned over to munitions manufacture. Two tiller steerers still survive
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• Simca
  ...while the [[Simca 1307]] and [[Simca Horizon]] won the coveted [[European Car of the Year]] titles in 1976 and 1978, respectively. Simca vehicles were al ...) company was founded in 1935 when Henri Pigozzi bought the former Donnet factory in the French town of Nanterre.<ref name=Beaulieu/> The first cars produced
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• Martini Racing
  == Sports car racing == ...tini Racing was then formed to enter two [[Porsche 907]] in several sports car races in 1969.
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• Saturn
  ...utomobile]]s in 1990, largely in response to the success of Japanese small-car imports in the United States. Saturn's headquarters and primary manufacturi ...ice. Customer satisfaction with dealer service is among the highest of any car brand in the U.S. The company also won praise for its environmentally-consc
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• Leyland
  ...n 1907 when they took over Coulthards of Preston. They also built a second factory in the neighbouring town of Chorley which still remains today as the headqu ...e, they also produced the [[Trojan Utility Car]] in the Kingston on Thames factory from 1922 to 1928.
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• Allard
  {{List of Allard Models}}The '''Allard Motor Company''' was an English car manufacturer founded in 1936 by [[Sydney Allard]]. The company, based in Pu ...y featured a large American [[V8]] engine in a small, light British sports car body, giving a high power-to-weight ratio and foreshadowing the more famous
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• De Tomaso Vallelunga
  ...chnology, and the [[spyder|spider]] version was first shown as a [[concept car]] at the [[Turin Motor Show]] in 1963. It entered production (by [[Ghia]]) ...Motor Company]] with 104&nbsp;hp (78&nbsp;kW) at 6200&nbsp;rpm. The small car weighed just 585&nbsp;kg (1290&nbsp;lb) and had an [[independent suspension
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• Westfield Megabusa
  The '''Westfield Megabusa''' is a [[Lotus]] Seven based car with a [[Suzuki]] Hayabusa 1300 cc engine and six-speed sequential gearbox. *Available as: Factory built, Complete kit (less engine gearbox wheels and tyres) and Starter kit
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• Hanomag
  ...but in 1931 a new crisis came when the banks withdrew a loan facility. The factory was mortgaged to Hannover City and the Vereinigte Stahlwerke trust and the For 1932 new small car, the 1.1 Litre, renamed the Garant in 1934, was announced and sold well all
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• William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield
  ...e at this stage in fairly advanced development of an overhead camshaft 8hp car, which Morris launched as the first [[Morris Minor (1928)|Morris Minor]] in [[Category:car designers|Morris, William, 1st Viscount Nuffield]]
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• Cold air intake
  ...ry goal is to increase the appeal of a car by changing the appearance of a car's engine bay and creating an attractive intake [[noise (environmental)|nois ...The power gained by this method can vary depending on how restrictive the factory airbox is. The placement of the filter is usually directly in the engine c
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• Chery Automobile
  ...In 2001, Chery began exporting its cars to Syria, becoming China's first car exporter. Chery also received its ISO-9001 certification. In September 20 ...eering]] (known for their racing car chassis expertise) is aiding Chery in car design and quality. [[Ricardo Consulting Engineers]] is also devolping a [
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• Austro-Daimler
  ...turing the automobiles after uniting with [[Eduard Fischer]]'s engineering factory. The works were located at Wiener-Neustadt. By this subsidiary ''DMG'' beca ...act car]] (8 hp, 45 km/h). In 1905 he built the company's first [[armoured car]], which had 30 hp. Also, the company produced engines for both trucks and
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• Aston Martin DBR1
  The '''Aston Martin DBR1''' was a [[sports car|sports]] [[racing car]] built by [[Aston Martin]] starting in 1956, intended for the [[World Spor | url=http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/637/Aston-Martin-DBR1.html
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• Fisher Body
  ...ne of the top coachbuilders in the United States, building their signature factory, Fisher Body 21, in 1919. At the time, the company had more than 40 buildin ...rd in Detroit. The brothers also mounted a bid to take-over [[Hudson Motor Car Company|Hudson Motors]], but their tender offer fell short of its market va
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• Vulcan
  ...g'''. The six-cylinder model grew to 6 litres in 1908. In 1912 a new small car, the 10/12 of 1.8 litres with two cylinder [[Aster]] engine was added, the ...sign of things to come a 30 cwt truck was also offered. During the war the factory concentrated on munitions. In 1916 the Hampson brothers left the company an
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• Porsche 718
  ...arga Florio, along with countless national hillclimb, endurance and sports car championships worldwide. ...relatively small capacity allowed the 718 to enter into the 'small sports car' class, as defined by the European motorsports governing body, the FIA.
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• Glasspar
  ...t began building small fiberglass boats hulls in his Santa Ana, California factory. Glasspar built boats in ranges from car toppers to twenty foot models and everything in between. Just prior to 1969
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• Kaiser-Frazer
  ...drive design while the Frazer was an upscale conventional rear wheel drive car. The production costs and time available prevented the front wheel drive de ...and Frazer continued at odds until Frazer left the company in 1951 and the car with the Frazer nameplate was dropped at the end of a short 10,000 unit pro
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• Lamborghini Miura
  ...M]] at [[24 hours of Le Mans|Le Mans]]. [[De Tomaso]] had produced a road car with this layout, the [[De Tomaso Vallelunga|Vallelunga]], but otherwise ca ...eder Don Antonio Miura, whose bulls have a proverbial attack instinct. The car was named in honor of Miura and of bulls (not bullfighting as is commonly m
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• Lea-Francis
  They branched out into car manufacture in 1903 and motor cycles in 1911. Lea-Francis built cars, under ...mile race on the roads of Northern Ireland in the hands of legendary race car driver, Kaye Don. The race was watched by a record 250,000 spectators, and
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• Personal luxury car
  ...d satisfaction of its owner and driver above all else, the personal luxury car sometimes sacrifices passenger capacity, cargo room, and fuel economy in fa ...distinguished on the performance end from [[grand tourer|GT]] and [[sports car]]s by their greater emphasis on comfort and convenience; on the luxury end,
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• Marathon Motor Works
  ...else, though, because the company's own newsletter drily remarked that the car "should move, but don't." ...in the latter year, and 1909 saw a two-model lineup, roadster and touring car, powered by 35 HP 4-cylinder engines. Both were open bodies (tops were opti
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• Tatra
  ...anged its name to Tatra. One source claims that Tatra is the "third oldest car maker in the world after [[DaimlerChrysler|Daimler Mercedes-Benz]] and [[Pe ...Benz automobile. Using the Benz for inspiration the company made its first car, the Präsident which was exhibited in 1897 in Vienna. Orders were obtained
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• Remote keyless system
  ...is a misnomer since the fob acts as an electronic key. Locking it in the car is just as much of a problem as doing the same with a mechanical key.) ...433.92&nbsp;MHz in Europe. Modern systems implement encryption to prevent car thieves from intercepting and spoofing the signal.
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• Audi R8 LMS
  {{Racing Car Infobox | *[http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2009/04/factory-supported-audi-r8-lms-to.html Factory Supported Audi R8 LMS to Compete at the 24h of Nurburgring]
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• Zastava
  ..., and Yugo had disappeared from most Western markets by 1993. In 1999, the factory came under NATO bombing during the Kosovo War missions. ...y signed a new agreement with [[Fiat]] - under the name [[Zastava 10]] the factory will produce a version of the 2003 [[Fiat Punto]] for the Balkans. It is sc
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• Ultima
  ...example to great success, but Ted Marlow, an early customer, modified his car for road use. ...models for the European market - cars built to a very high standard by the factory. For these cars, the sky is the limit when it comes to price - anything can
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• Fender skirts
  ...a Century of Progress" ''Popular Mechanics'', October 1985, page 59.</ref> Factory production of fender skirts began with the 1932 [[Graham-Paige]]<ref>{{cite As of 2009, the last car produced with common fender skirts was the 1999-2006 [[Honda Insight]], alt
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• DAF Trucks
  ...managing director of a brewery. [[Huub van Doorne]] had repaired Huenges's car several times. Huenges was so pleased with his work that he offered to lend ...ed its name to ''Van Doorne's Aanhangwagen Fabriek'' (Van Doorne's Trailer Factory), abbreviated DAF.
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• Siam di Tella
  ...el pump in place of the unreliable electrical unit supplied to the British car's buyers<ref name=Autocar196708>{{cite journal|journal =[[Autocar]]| volume
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• Robin Hood Engineering
  ...g Ltd''' based in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, is a British [[kit car]] manufacturer. ...nts to build cars, the Robin Hood policy of "One kit + one donor vehicle = car on the road" has obviously been an invaluable selling point.
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• Saleen S7
  ...leen, Incorporated]] and is currently being built at Saleen's headquarters factory in Irvine, California. It is constructed with a unique hybrid of a steel s ...o [[turbochargers]] and power output was increased to 750 hp (559 kW). The car was designed to be a Twin Turbo setup from the beginning, however.
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• Standard Motor Company
  ...don Dealer, Charles (later Sir Charles) Friswell agreed to take the entire factory output. In 1907 Friswell became Chairman of the company and worked hard rai ...0 aircraft including the [[Royal Aircraft Factory BE12]], [[Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8]], [[Sopwith Pup]] and [[Bristol F.2 Fighter|Bristol F.2-B]] in a new
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• Autobianchi A112
  | [[Supermini car|Supermini]] ...[Lancia Y10]]. Over 1.2 million units were produced in Autobianchi's Milan factory.
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• Moskvitch 2141 Aleko
  ...ьный завод имени Ленинского Комсомола"''), is a Russian mid-size hatchback car manufactured by [[Moskvich]]. ...gth and 10 cm in width, and to increase wheelbase 15 cm. Prototypes of the car were named series "3-5". On these cars the mechanical layout was planed to
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• Pietro Frua
  ...ne 28, 1983) was one of the leading Italian coachbuilders and [[automobile|car]] designers during the 1950s and 1960s. During World War II car-styling work was scarce and Frua had to turn to designing children’s cars
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• Invicta
  ...e Ltd|Blackburne]] engined ''12/45'' was announced in 1932. It was a large car with its 118 inch wheelbase and proved too heavy for the available power ne Car production seems to have finished in 1935. Noel Macklin went on to found [[
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• Custom car
  ...ission]] and to make it look "unique", unlike any car that might have been factory finished,always a personal "styling" statement by the re-styler/re-builder. ...ear axle, often from [[Jaguar]]. Only rarely was the grille of one make of car replaced by another; one exception was that the 1937 [[Buick]] grille was o
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• Austin Rover Group
  ..., Morris, Riley and Wolseley marques now effectively dead, the new, leaner car business was rechristened as the ''Austin Rover Group''. ...he was dismissed in 1979. Secondly, Edwardes began a ruthless programme of factory closures and sell-offs. The biggest casualties of this were the [[MG|MG]]
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• Reynard
  ...0, [[Formula Vauxhall Lotus]], [[Formula 3]], [[Formula 3000]] and [[Champ Car]]. ...mula Ford 2000 in the late seventies) to progress in March 1994 to [[Champ Car]] racing and even collaborate with [[British American Racing]] from 1999 in
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• Porsche 930
  | Supercar/Sports car ...ere - and included everything, from a Formula One project, to a new racing car, via a completely new model and suggestions that even a change of ownership
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• Nikasil
  ...for Mecury Marine Racing, Kohler Engines, and as a repair replacement for factory-chromed snowmobiles, dirt bikes, ATVs, watercraft and automotive V8 liners/ [[Porsche]] started using this on the 1970 [[Porsche 917|917]] race car, and later on the 1973 [[Porsche 911#911 Carrera RS (1973 and 1974)|911 RS]
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• Cartercar
  ...hat Carter wasn't to be the thing? It had the friction drive and no other car had it. How could I tell what these engineers would say next?<ref>Pelfrey, ...-2000 annually that Durant had predicted. The GM board decided to use the factory instead to produce the [[Oakland]].
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• MG
  '''Modern Gentleman''' (formerly '''Morris Garages''') is a British [[sports car]] manufacturer founded in 1924, although no cars have been made since [[MG ...and a search for a permanent home led to the lease of part an old leather factory in Abingdon, Oxfordshire in 1929, gradually taking over more space until pr
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• Ariel (vehicle)
  ...is about the Ariel motorcycle and motor car company, for the modern sports car manufacturer see [[Ariel Ltd]].'' ...mpany name was reused in 1999 for the formation of [[Ariel Ltd]], a sports car producer.
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• Monteverdi
  {{List of Monteverdi Models}}'''Monteverdi''' was a Swiss brand of [[luxury car]]s created in 1967 by [[Peter Monteverdi]] (1934 - 1998) and based in Binni ...as a manufacturer. The factory was converted into a museum, the Monteverdi Car Collection, which opened in 1985.
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• Continental Mark II
  The '''Continental Mark II''' was a [[automobile|car]] produced by the then newly formed ''Continental Division'' of the [[Ford ...ncoln Continental]] of the 1940s, which had been possibly the most notable car of the '40s. Ford, often regarded as producers of many competent cars but f
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• Maserati Shamal
  | [[Sportscar|Sports Car]] ...mal" appears on either side of the central pillar in chrome lettering. The car has alloy wheels, a small rear spoiler and a blacked-out grille with chrome
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• Maudslay Motor Company
  ...not sell very well and in 1902 they made their first engine intended for a car which was fitted to chain drive chassis. The three cylinder engine, designe Private car production stopped with the outbreak of war. Five and six ton lorries had b
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• Nanjing Automobile Group
  ...n''' (Chinese: 南京汽车集团有限公司) (Yuejin Motor Group Corporation, China's oldest car maker, founded in 1947) is a state-owned enterprise with 16,000 employees. Car brands owned by NAC:
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• Osella
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Osella''' is an Italian racing car manufacturer and former [[Formula One]] team based in Volpiano near Turin, ...would rise to [[Formula Two]] in 1975 achieving some success with its own car (the Osella FA2); [[François Migault]] scored one point.
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• Ferrari 333 SP
  {{Racing Car Infobox | ...ri's official return to [[sports car racing]] after a 20 year absence. The car was built to compete in the [[International Motor Sports Association|IMSA]]
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• De Lorean
  ...tive model it produced – the stainless steel [[De Lorean DMC-12]] [[sports car]] featuring [[gull-wing door]]s – and for its brief and turbulent history ...shot to worldwide fame in the ''Back to the Future'' movie trilogy as the car transformed into a time machine by eccentric scientist Doctor Emmett L. Bro
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• Porsche 911 GT1
  ...etition in the GT1 class at the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]] and sold as a road car for homologation purposes. The roadgoing version was labeled the '''911 GT1 ...with the 911, its floorpan was taken from the Porsche 956|956/962 Group C car. In addition, the GT1 featured a water cooled, twin-turbocharger|turbocharg
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• Lancia Delta S4
  {{Racing Car Infobox | ...ing]] and [[turbocharging]] to reduce turbo lag at low RPM. Officially the car produced 550 horsepower (410 kW). Independent figures show the S4 could acc
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• Beaumont
  The Beaumont car grew out of the 1964-65 [[Acadian|Acadian]] Beaumont model, which was base Beaumonts were also made in a factory in Arica, '''Chile''' for the local market, and the Canadian-made cars were
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• Autobianchi Primula
  | [[Supermini car|Supermini]] ...ed via the Wayback Machine)''</ref> Primulas were built in the Autobianchi factory in Desio<ref name="registro">{{cite web|url=http://www.autobianchi.org/ita2
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• Ferrari FXX
  ...nd of 2006. Ferrari's sister company, [[Maserati]] has developed a similar car, the [[Maserati MC12#MC12 Corsa|MC12 Corsa]]. ==The Car==
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• Duncan Hamilton
  ...Internationales ADAC Eifelrennen ([[Hersham and Walton Motors|HWM]]-[[Alta Car and Engineering Company|Alta]]).<ref name="results"/> He also took part in numerous sports car races and contested the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]] nine times, most famously i
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• RUF BTR - 1983-1993
  ...scratch by RUF, from a bare un-marked shell from Porsche, or the existing car of the customer could be modified. This opened up a large market for RUF, a In 1977, Porsche had unveiled the 930, which had taken the performance car world by storm with its awesome forced-induction powerplant. RUF chose the
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• AC
  ...h specialist [[automobile]] manufacturer and one of the oldest independent car marques in Britain. ...to Ferry Works, Thames Ditton, Surrey in 1911 and grew into a substantial car manufacturer. [[Selwyn Edge|S F Edge]], who had been behind [[Napier & Son]
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• Prodrive
  ...Warwick provides road car design and engineering consultation for various car manufacturers. ...to [[touring car]]s, running BMW's [[BMW M3|M3]], in the [[British Touring Car Championship]]. They were the outright 1988 champions, and class champions
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• Lloyd (Germany)
  ...ated in 1908 and was owned by the Norddeutsche Lloyd shipping company. The factory was in Bremen. Many of the products of the company and its successors were ...group after the purchase of Hansa by [[Carl F. W. Borgward]] in 1929, and car production ceased.
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• Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph
  ...pped making Rolls Royce models in 2002 but continued with [[Bentley]]. The car had a base price of £155,175 in the UK and $220,695 in the US. It was seco A total of 1,570 Silver Seraphs were produced before the car was ceased production. It was indirectly replaced by the [[Rolls-Royce Phan
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• ATESSA
  In the new system, as with a normal FWD car, the gearbox contains a differential that drives the front wheels. However ...set up to provide slight oversteer in handling, and in fact the harder the car is cornered the LESS the 4wd system engages the front wheels. This promotes
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• AJS
  ...r Clyno, but in 1929 Clyno went under.<ref name="wolver"/> AJS returned to car making in 1929 with the Nine powered by a 1018 cc side valve [[Coventry-Cli ...s between December 1931 and May 1932. Assembly took place in the Stockport factory used by [[Willys Overland Crossley]]. Motorcycle production moved to Plumst
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• Lamborghini Diablo
  ...lkswagen Group which produced the final and most powerful iteration of the car: the VT 6.0. ...he driver's seat molded specifically for the buyer, a rear wing spoiler, a factory fitted luggage set (priced at $2,600) and an exclusive Breguet clock for th
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• Triumph
  ...off and they soon started making their own and in 1907 expanded into a new factory in Priory Street taking over the premises of a spinning mill. Major orders ...ncis]] to whom they paid a royalty for every car sold. Production of this car and its immediate successors was on a moderate scale but this changed with
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• BMW Z8
  | Sports Car The '''BMW Z8''' was a car produced by German automaker [[BMW]] from 2000 to 2003. It was given the E5
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• De Tomaso Pantera
  ...aly from 1971 through 1996. The word "Pantera" is Latin for "Panther". The car was designed by famed stylist, [http://www.tom-tjaarda.net Tom Tjaarda] and ...uld accelerate to 60&nbsp;mph (97&nbsp;km/h) in 5.5 seconds according to ''Car and Driver''.
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• Limited Slip Differential
  ...ventional open diff. This is also the best for FWD cars, as it allows the car to turn in on throttle release, instead of ploughing forward. <ref name="wh ...r when using a 2 way LSD if they lift the throttle suddenly, expecting the car to settle like a conventional open diff.
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• Farbio
  ...s new range of supercars badged 'Arash Cars' including his AF10 and racing car projects. Arash is renowned for his collection of supercars from Lamborghin ...to make appearances in the UK. Arash turned his mind to a more marketable car and hired a stylist fresh out of school to help him develop a compact super
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• Delage
  ...inning important races until the onset of World War I in 1914 when the new factory in nearby Courbevoie was converted to military production.
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• Karrier
  '''Karrier''' is a marque of car and commercial vehicle, the origins of which can be traced back to Clayton ...b|title=Rootes-Chrysler resource site|url=http://www.rootes-chrysler.co.uk/car-history/spacevan.html}}</ref>, although the vehicles took on Renault badges
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• White Motor Company
  Today, only about 150 White [[steam car]]s are known to remain from the 10,000 that were made. ...the Autocar nameplate following its acquisition. Diamond T and [[REO Motor Car Company]] became the [[Diamond REO]] division, which was discontinued in th
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• Corvette XP-700 concept
  | [[Concept car|concept]] | [[Sports car]]
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• Alpine
  {{List of Alpine Models}}:''Alpine is also the name of car models produced by [[Sunbeam Alpine|Sunbeam]] and [[Chrysler Alpine|Chrysle '''Alpine''' was a French manufacturer of [[racing car|racing]] and [[sports car]]s which used [[rear engine|rear mounted]] [[Renault]] engines. The proper
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• Alfa Romeo Alfasud
  ...ered one of Alfa Romeo's most successful models. A common nickname for the car is ''’Sud''. ...s built at a new factory at Pomigliano d'Arco in southern Italy, hence the car's name, ''Alfa Sud'' (Alfa South) and developed by Austrian [[Rudolf Hrusch
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• Brooklands Circuit
  ...Flares were used to mark the upper boundary of the track. Edge drove his car for the full duration, with the drivers of the other two cars taking the mo ...as sold to [[Vickers-Armstrong]]s in 1946 for continued use as an aircraft factory. New aircraft types including the Viking, Varsity, Viscount, Vanguard and V
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• Alvis Cars
  ...duced aero-engines and military vehicles, the latter continuing long after car production ceased. ...Alvis' evolved. In 1921, the company changed its name and became the Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd. and moved production to Holyhead Road, Coventr
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• Giovanni Agnelli
  ...1866 – 16 December 1945) was an Italian entrepreneur, who founded [[Fiat]] car manufacturing in 1899. ...30th to third place among Italian industrial companies. The first [[Ford]] factory was opened four years after Fiat was founded and Agnelli visited several ti
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• Noble
  ...h, South Africa. Once the body shell is completed, it is sent to the Noble factory where the engines, suspension etc are added. ...ity, but a rigid feel. This is achieved by having no anti-roll bars on the car (with the exception of the hardcore M400). This allows suspension to be mad
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• Lanchester Motor Company
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}'''Lanchester Motor Company''' was a car manufacturer based at Armourer Mills, Montgomery Street Birmingham, Great B The first Lanchester in 1895 was designed as a car not a [[horseless carriage]] and led to the first production cars in 1900.
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• BMW M
  ...GmbH''' (previously: '''BMW Motorsport GmbH''') is a subsidiary of German car manufacturer [[BMW]] AG established in May 1972 with just eight employees. ...rim, aerodynamics and exterior styling. The objective of BMW M is to sell factory production sports cars that are comfortable enough for everyday use while o
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• Ginetta Cars
  ...the open car and a BMC axle replaced the Ford one at the rear. On test the car reached 120 mph with a 1500 cc engine. The series III version of 1966 added ...ord V8 and MGB engines respectively. The G12 was a mid-engined competition car.
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• Star Motor Company
  {{List of {{PAGENAME}} Models}}The '''Star Motor Company''' was a British car and commercial vehicle maker based in Wolverhampton and active from 1898 to ...ar Engineering Ltd. The early vehicles were heavily influenced by existing car makers and the 1898 '''3.5''' was essentially a single cylinder Benz and of
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• Napier & Son
  ...ing green]]. Production reached 250 cars in 1903, overwhelming the Lambeth factory, so a move was made to Acton, north west London. By 1907 1200 people were e ...uild engines from other companies' designs: initially a V12 Royal Aircraft Factory model and then [[Sunbeam Arab]]s. Both proved to be rather unreliable, and
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• Mercury Comet
  ...in the Comet being classified as either a compact or an intermediate-sized car during the seventeen years that the Comet name was used. ...60 Edsel Comet. Following the Edsel's termination in the fall of 1959, the car received a new grille design before its March 1960 introduction.]]
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