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• Charles Warren Nash
  ...ted States [[automobile]] entrepreneur and served as an executive in the [[automotive industry]]. ...higan where he was noticed by [[William C. Durant]] of The Flint Road Cart Company. Durant hired him in 1890, and Nash became a supervisor.
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• Bruno Sacco
  ...ween 1975 and 1999. He is acknowledged as one of the greatest designers in automotive history. ...The man who shaped the quintessential car company | work = | publisher = ''Automotive News Europe'' | date = January 2007 | url = http://findarticles.com/p/artic
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• Walter Owen Bentley
  ...1888 – August 3 1971), often known as W.O. Bentley or just "W.O." was the founder of [[Bentley|Bentley Motors]]. ...ab Company, Bentley in 1912 joined his brother, H.M. (Henry) Bentley, in a company called "Bentley and Bentley" selling French [[DFP]] cars. Unsatisfied with
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• William C. Durant
  ...7) was a leading pioneer of the United States [[automobile]] industry, the founder of [[General Motors]] and [[Chevrolet]] who created the system of multi-bra ...he made a similar success and was soon president of this horseless-vehicle company. In 1908 he arranged the incorporation by proxies of [[General Motors Corpo
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• Stutz Motor Company
  The '''Stutz Motor Company''', later reborn as '''Stutz Motor Car of America''', was a producer of [[l ==Stutz Motor Company==
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• REO Motor Car Company
  ...at produced [[automobile]]s and trucks from 1905 to 1975. At one point the company also manufactured buses on its truck platforms. ...National Oil Company, the Michigan Screw Company, and the Atlas Drop Forge Company.
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• Ferruccio Lamborghini
  ...ni''' (April 28, 1916- February 20, 1993) was an Italian car maker and the founder of the [[Lamborghini]] brand. ...nd hopefully victory) in motor racing, Lamborghini clearly stated that his company would not participate in or support motor racing. This was in direct contr
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• Carrozzeria Touring
  ...meo champion, [[Antonio Ascari]]. Anderloni and Ponzoni remained with the company until it ceased operations 40 years later. ...or, and learned the mechanics of the trade as the company progressed. The company licensed [[Charles Weymann]]'s system of fabric-covered lightweight frames,
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• Louis Chevrolet
  ...ferences with Durant in 1915 and sold his share of the company to him. The company was folded into Durant's [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]]. ...as a racing car driver, and a year later became employed by a Philadelphia company developing a then-revolutionary [[front-wheel-drive]], racing car. His rac
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• Lexington
  ...engineer, immediately started on improvements to the Lexington to keep the company ahead of its competition. His 1911 multiple exhaust was reported to give 30 The company was promotional minded and entered both the [[Glidden Tour]] and the [[Indi
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• Walter Percy Chrysler
  ...ist, railroad mechanic and manager, [[automotive industry]] executive, and founder of the [[Chrysler|Chrysler Corporation]]. ...ager of the Allegheny locomotive erecting shops of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO).
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• Charles F. Kettering
  ...#1635216, filed Jan 3, 1924</ref>. In association with the DuPont Chemical Company, he was also responsible for the invention of Freon refrigerant for refrige ...dustry, founding the [[Delco Electronics|Dayton Engineering Laboratories]] company (shortened to ''DELCO'') with [[Edward A. Deeds]] and [[Harold E. Talbott]]
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• John Francis Dodge
  ...utomobile]] manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of [[Dodge|Dodge Brothers Company]]. ...r plant. In 1894 they went to work as machinists at the Dominion Typograph Company in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.<ref name=hyde>Hyde, Charles K. (2003). ''Ridin
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• Template:Ford
  {{Automotive navigational box | |Marque = [[Ford Motor Company|FORD]]
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• TVR
  ...of [[sports car]]s based in the English town of Blackpool, Lancashire. The company manufactures lightweight sports cars with powerful engines and is the third ...rts cars and grand tourers, and TVR Power, their power-train division. The company has a turbulent recent history and an uncertain future (see below).
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• De Tomaso Guarà
  The '''[[De Tomaso]] Guarà''' is a sports car and the last project of the founder and owner [[Alejandro de Tomaso]] put into the market. Presented 1993 in [[ ...witzerland. However, it seems there were no cars built after 2004 when the company went into liqudation.
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• Adam Revo
  |Marque = [[Adam Motor Company]] '''Adam Revo''' is a [[city car]] assembled by [[Adam Motor Company]] in Pakistan. It is the first indigenously [Pakistani assembled car with a
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• Prodrive
  ...ars]] for companies and teams such as [[Subaru]] and [[Aston Martin]]. Its Automotive Technology division based in Warwick provides road car design and engineeri ...unning campaigns for [[Alfa Romeo|Alfa Romeo]], [[Honda]] and [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]].
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• Simca
  ...becoming a part of [[Chrysler Europe]] and a brand rather than independent company. In 1978, Chrysler divested its European operations to another French autom ...active in the automotive business in the early 1920s when he met [[Fiat]] founder, [[Giovanni Agnelli]]. They began business together in 1922 with Pigozzi ac
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• Mugen
  ...ine tuner and parts manufacturer closely associated with the [[Honda Motor Company]]. Despite the family connections, however, Mugen is not, and has never bee The company tunes and races Honda vehicles in the [[Super GT]] championship, and, addit
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