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Automobile manufacturers are companies and organizations that produce motor vehicles. Many of these companies are still in business, and many of the companies are defunct. Only companies that have articles on Wikipedia are included in this list. The list is sorted by country of origin. A Algeria * SNVI Argentina * ASA Aluminium Body * Zanella * Sero Electric Defunct * Anasagasti * AutoLatina * Autoar * Crespi * Eniak * Hispano-Argentina * IAVA * IAME * IKA * Sevel Argentina * SIAM Di Tella Armenia Defunct * ErAZ Australia Current * ACE EV Group * BCI Bus * Borland Racing Developments * Bolwell * Brabham Automotive * Custom Bus * Ford Australia * General Motors Special Vehicles (GMSV) * Elfin Sports Cars * Minetti Sports Cars * Nota * P&D Coachworks * Volgren Defunct * Ford Performance Vehicles (FPV) * Giocattolo * Holden Austria * KTM * Magna Steyr * Puch * Rosenbauer * Tushek & Spigel Defunct * Austro-Daimler * Austro-Ta ...
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Automobile Manufacturers
The automotive industry comprises a wide range of company, companies and organizations involved in the design, Business development, development, manufacturing, marketing, selling, Maintenance, repairing, and Custom car, modification of motor vehicles. It is one of the world's largest industry (economics), industries by revenue (from 16% such as in France up to 40% in countries such as Slovakia). The word ''automotive'' comes from the Greek language, Greek ''autos'' (self), and Latin ''motivus'' (of motion), referring to any form of self-powered vehicle. This term, as proposed by Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Elmer Sperry (1860–1930), first came into use to describe automobiles in 1898. History The automotive industry began in the 1860s with hundreds of manufacturers pioneering the Brass Era car, horseless carriage. Early car manufacturing involved manual assembly by a human worker. The process evolved from engineers working on a stationary car to a conveyor belt system where the ...
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Siam Di Tella
SIAM (an acronym from Sección Industrial Amasadoras Mecánicas, formerly SIAM Di Tella) is an Argentina, Argentine home appliance brand, currently owned by "Grupo Industrial Newsan", a leader of the segment in the region. The original "Siam Di Tella" company was founded in Buenos Aires by Torcuato di Tella in 1911, established as a manufacturer of mechanical bread machines. Subsequently, production was diversified by incorporating the production of refrigerators, washing machines, kitchens, televisions, scooter (motorcycle), scooters, vans, automobiles, and elements for private industry and the public sector, such as oil pumping equipment, large electrical transformers, steel pipes and generators for diesel-electric locomotives. By the 1940s, the company became the largest metalworking industry in South America.
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P&D Coachworks
P&D Coachworks is an Australian Coach builder, bus bodybuilder in Murwillumbah, New South Wales. History In 1988, former Denning (bus manufacturer), Denning employee Paul McGavin founded P&D Body Repairs in Tweed Heads West before relocating to Murwillumbah and in 1990 diversified into bus body manufacturing bodying a Hino Motors, Hino. Initially bodying school buses, in 1993, it bodied five Volvo B59 city buses for Hopkinsons. In February 1995 it completed its first Coach (bus), coach.P&D's First Coach ''Australian Bus Panorama'' 10/9 July 1995 page 23 References External links Bus Australia gallery
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Nota Sports And Racing Cars
"None of the above" (NOTA), or none for short, also known as "against all" or a "scratch" vote, is a ballot option in some jurisdictions or organizations, designed to allow the voter to indicate disapproval of the candidates in a voting system. It is based on the principle that consent requires the ability to withhold consent in an election, just as they can by voting "No" on ballot questions. It must be contrasted with "abstention", in which a voter does not cast a ballot. Entities that include "None of the Above" on ballots as standard procedure include Argentina, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria („Не подкрепям никого“, "I don't support anyone"), Colombia (), France (''vote blanc'', "blank vote"), Greece (, blank), India ("None of the above"), Indonesia (, "empty box"), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Peru, Spain (, "blank vote"), Uruguay, and the U.S. state of Nevada (None of These Candidates). Russia had such an option on its bal ...
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Minetti Sports Cars
Minetti Sports Cars is an Australian company which designs and constructs racing cars. It was established in 2003 and located on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Minetti started with the ZZ/I design, utilised for small engine capacity prototype sports car racing. Since then Minetti have followed up with the SS-V1 design. Both cars have utilised motorcycle sourced engines, mostly Suzuki Hayabusa, for powerplants to run in the Supersports category. The earlier ZZ/I design has won championships at state level in both New South Wales and Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ... while the later SS-V1 has had class wins in the QLD Sportscar Championship and also took out the 2008 National Supersprint Championship. References External links * {{Automotive industr ...
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Elfin Sports Cars
Elfin Sports Cars Pty Ltd (formerly known as Elfin Sports Cars) is an Australian car manufacturer company that was founded by Garrie Cooper. It has been an Australian manufacturer of sports cars and motor racing cars since 1959. Elfin Sports Cars is currently owned by Young Timers Garage (YTG) after being purchased by the company in May 2023 from the Walkinshaw Group. It was previously owned by businessmen and historic racing enthusiasts Bill Hemming and Nick Kovatch (who remains as technical director) who purchased it in 1998. Elfin is the oldest continuous sports car maker in Australia and one of the most successful with 29 championships and major Grand Prix titles. The original factory was located at Conmurra Avenue, Edwardstown, South Australia, Edwardstown in suburban Adelaide, South Australia. The company is currently located in Keysborough, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. History The company was founded in South Australia as Elfin Sports Cars in October 1959 by Garri ...
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Holden Special Vehicles
Holden Special Vehicles (HSV) was the officially designated performance vehicle division for Holden. Established in 1987 and based in Clayton, Victoria, the privately owned company modified Holden models such as the standard wheelbase Holden Commodore, Commodore, long wheelbase Holden Caprice, Caprice and Statesman, and commercial Holden Ute, Ute for domestic and export sale, all of which were imported from the main Holden assembly plant in Elizabeth, South Australia. HSV had also modified other non-Holden cars within the General Motors lineup in low volumes. Vehicles produced by Holden Special Vehicles have generally been marketed under the HSV brand name. However, in the early years, some retailed under the Holden brand in Australia whereas most cars for export (other than in New Zealand and Singapore) retailed under different names (namely, Vauxhall and Chevrolet Special Vehicles). History Holden and Tom Walkinshaw Racing – an operation owned by Scottish racing car, racin ...
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Ford Australia
Ford Motor Company of Australia Limited (known by its trading name Ford Australia) is the Australian subsidiary of Automotive industry in the United States, United States–based automaker Ford Motor Company. It was founded in 1925 as an Australian outpost of Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited, Ford Motor Company of Canada. At that time, Ford Canada was a separate company from Ford in the US. Henry Ford had granted the manufacturing rights of Ford motor vehicles in the British Empire (later the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth) to Canadian investors. Ford Australia's first products were Model T cars assembled from Complete knock down, complete knock-down (CKD) kits provided by Ford of Canada. Of the many models that followed, the best known was the Ford Falcon (Australia), Falcon produced from 1960 to 2016, originally a United States, US model introduced in Australia in 1960 and eventually adapted to Australian requirements and road conditions. History Early developmen ...
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Custom Bus
Custom Denning (previously Custom Bus and Custom Coaches) is an Australian bus body builder based in St Marys, New South Wales. History Cycle Components Manufacturing Company In 1935, Stanley Hillsdon founded Cycle Components Manufacturing Company (CCMC) in Guildford, New South Wales, Guildford, having been involved in manufacture of bicycles since 1911. In 1946 the company won the contract to manufacture reversible seats for Sydney's Trams in Sydney, tram system.A Family Business Of Nephews
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In 1955, CCMC successfully tendered to body 125 single deck Leyland Royal Tiger Worldmaster buses for the NSW Department of Government Transport. In May 1956, Jack Violet, Hillsdon's nephew by marriage, was employed as Bus Divisional Manager to oversee operations. In ...
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Brabham Automotive
Brabham Automotive was an Australian automaker launched by David Brabham and Australian investor group, Fusion Capital in May 2018. Brabham Automotive was based in Adelaide, South Australia, with representation also in the United Kingdom. Its first product was the Brabham BT62, which was initially launched as a track-only vehicle. In November 2019, the company announced a Competition version of the BT62 to coincide with its racing debut in the Britcar season finale at Brands Hatch Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit in West Kingsdown, Kent, England, United Kingdom. Originally used as a grasstrack motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently hosts .... Brabham Automotive's manufacturing base was in Edinburgh Parks, north of Adelaide. In 2021, Brabham entered competition in the GT2 European Series with the BT63 GT2. Brabham ceased operations in January 2024, when Brabham ended relations with ...
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Bolwell
Bolwell is an Australian company that originally produced sports cars between 1962 and 1979. A new company of the same name began production of new cars in 2009 after several years of concept and show cars. Bolwell Cars began as a manufacturer of fiberglass car bodies for other car companies in Australia, but quickly moved on to designing and producing their own cars. Over the years, Bolwell produced a number of different models, but none were as iconic as the Mk VIII Nagari. Bolwell Cars created five commercial models and producing a total of 800 cars. Founder Campbell Bolwell remains active in designing and building cars, including the recent release of the Nagari 500 in 2019. The Nagari 500 features a carbon/Kevlar Tub, mid-mounted Chev LS3 V8 engine, and an Audi 6-speed transaxle. Bolwell, which is still a family company, has advanced manufacturing technologies and designs that have created opportunities both domestically and internationally, managed by Vaughan Bolwell. Mo ...
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Borland Racing Developments
Borland Racing Developments is an Australian championship winning manufacturer of open-wheel racing cars, principally in the junior categories of Formula Ford and Formula Vee. Borland Racing Developments was formed in 1984 to prepare and engineer cars for the Australian Formula 2 Championship. Four championships were secured in the next five years, after which Michael Borland turned his attention to producing the Spectrum Formula Ford and Sabre Formula Vee racing cars. The Spectrum chassis established itself in the local Formula Ford market, taking a second for Jason Bargwanna in the 1996 title race. He gained a 1-2 in the 1998 Australian Championship for Adam Macrow and Christian Jones (racing driver), Christian Jones. The strength and popularity of the chassis grew with ongoing development and since 2004, the Spectrum has been the most consistently successful brand in Australian Formula Ford Championship racing. In 2000, a New Zealand title to Phil Hellebrekers was the firs ...
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