All Entries in the "General" Category
Rolls-Royce
Founded in 1906 by Charles Rolls and his friend Henry Royce the first incarnation of Rolls Royce was that of a car manufacturer that started early in the history of the automotive industry. Their first car was the Silver Ghost that was manufactured from 1906 until 1925, and met great success – having a good […]
Proton
Established in 1983 Proton was and still is the first automotive manufacturer in Malaysia. The name proton comes from the Malaysian acronym that basically put means the national auto enterprise. Heavily influenced and in some cooperation by and with Mitsubishi motors they made their first vehicle and released it in 1985. It was called the […]
Panoz Auto
Panoz Auto is a higher performance car manufacturing firm owned by Italian American Don Panoz, who made his fortune in pharmaceuticals and later became successful in the automobile industry. Originally founded in 1989 it has been a very large success, as in 1997 and since that time they have competed all over the world, along […]
Peugeot
Peugeot was founded way back at the wee end of the 19th century in 1882 as a bicycle manufacturer – however there had been manufacturing in the facility and company since the 1700s, just not wheels and wheeled human powered or motor powered vehicles. In 1889 Armand Peugeot became very interested in automobiles, and fancied […]
Packard
Packard was founded by William and James Packard along with a business partner George Weiss in 1899 as the Ohio Automobile Company in an effort to make a better car. Weiss was a stockholder in a company called Winton and was dissatisfied with their vehicles, thus with the help of the Packard Brothers he used […]
Oldsmobile
In 1897 Ransom E. Olds founded a small car company and they produced vehicles under Ford later, all the way until the line was discontinued in 2004 due to declining sales and declining dealerships that carried the vehicle. Having lasted for almost 110 years, this company would have had its 110th anniversary this year.They began […]
Noble
Noble was founded in 1998 by a man named Lee Noble who wanted to build high powered extremely fast sports cars in the often troubles and tumultuous market. Currently Noble is a small production sports automobile manufacturer and makes just a few cars a year, however they are lucrative as the cars they manufacture are […]
Obvio
There’s not a whole lot to say about Obvio, other than it is a Brazilian automobile manufacturer and specializes in micro cars. They currently produce the two micro car lines in Brazil called the 828 and the 012, which are planned to be brought and distributed throughout the United States of America through the use […]
Opel
Adam Opel was a man born way back in 1837, but in 1863 he founded a company that manufactured machines for sewing. Following the success of this his company, named after him became the largest sewing manufacturer in Europe, and of course in his native country Germany. Later he began to produce bicycles; however he […]
Nissan
Nissan motors started out in 1914 as the Datsun, until Nissan came in and bought it, creating the Nissan Motor Company in 1934. After this they began building trucks, airplanes, and engines for the Japanese Military and their mane plant was moved to china after the invasion there. The plant manufactured machinery and parts for […]