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Hudson

The Hudson Motor Car Company made Hudson and other brand automobiles in Detroit, Michigan, from 1909 to 1954. In 1954, Hudson merged with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation to form American Motors. The Hudson name was continued through the 1957 model year, after which it was dropped. The name “Hudson” came from Joseph L. Hudson, a Detroit department [...]

Dodge

Dodge is a United States-based brand of automobiles, minivans, sport utility vehicles and trucks, manufactured and marketed by Chrysler LLC in more than 60 different countries and territories worldwide. Founded as the Dodge Brothers Company in 1900 to supply parts and assemblies for Detroit’s growing auto industry, Dodge began making its own complete vehicles in [...]

Alvis

Alvis cars were produced by the manufacturer Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd of Coventry, United Kingdom from 1919 to 1967.

Ariel

Ariel was a bicycle, motorcycle and automobile marque manufacturer based in Bournbrook, Birmingham, England.

Simca

Simca was a French automaker and marque, founded in 1934 by Henri Théodore Pigozzi (1898-1964). Simca was originally affiliated with Fiat, but later, after a period of independence, when Simca bought Ford’s French branch, became increasingly controlled by the Chrysler Group, in 1970 becoming a part of Chrysler Europe and a brand rather than independent [...]

Nash

Nash Motors was founded in 1916 by former General Motors president Charles W. Nash who acquired the Thomas B. Jeffery Company. Jeffery’s best known automobile was the Rambler. Nash enjoyed decades of success by marketing mid-priced cars for middle class buyers. Nash Motors was an automobile manufacturer based in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the United States [...]

Sunbeam

Sunbeam was a marque registered by John Marston Co. Ltd of Wolverhampton, England, in 1888. The company first made bicycles, then motorcycles and cars from the late 19th century to circa 1936, and applied the marque to all three forms of transportation. The company also manufactured 647 aircraft during World War I. A Sunbeam was [...]

Chevrolet

Chevrolet was founded by Louis Chevrolet (Swiss-French) and William C. Durant (American). Louis Chevrolet was a race-car driver, and William Durant, founder of General Motors, had been forced out of GM in 1910. He wanted to use Chevrolet’s designs to rebuild his own reputation as a force in the automobile industry. As head of Buick [...]

Volkswagen

Volkswagen Passenger Cars, also known as VW, is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany and is the original as well as the largest brand by sales volume within the Volkswagen Group. // SHOP: Shop Volkswagen T-shirts at Spreadshirt Amerika + World Shop Volkswagen T-shirts at Spreadshirt Europa Kjøp Volkswagen T-skjorter hos Autonaut Autoklassiker Shop [...]