Sunday, April 7, 2013

Audi

Audi
has overseas worldwide operation from its headquarters that can found in Ingolstadt , Bavaria , Germany. Audi-branded vehicles are produced in seven production facilities worldwide . Audi AG has been a majority owned subsidiary of Volkswagen Group since 1966, following a phased purchased of AUDI AG's predecessor. Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft is the largest shareholder of AUDI Aktiengesellschaft which holds approximately 99.5 % of the share capital, It includes the consilidated accounts of AUDI AG in its own financial statements.

Hyundai

Hyundai is a Korean multinational chaebol or conglomerate.
It has a headquarter in Seoul, South Korea. Chung Ju-yung is the founder of Hyundai in 1974 as a construction firm and Chung was directly control of the company until his death in 2001. Hyundai underwent a major restructuring and break-up which reduced the Hyudai's Group's business to encompass only container shipping services the manufacturing of elevators and tourism , the following 1997 East Asian financial and Chung's death. Hyundai is not legally connected to Hyundai Group which include Hyundai Motor Group, Hyundai Department Store Group. Hyundai Heavy Industries Group and Hyundai Development Company.

Fiat

Fiat S.P.A. was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Goivanni Agnelli.
It is an Italian automobile manufacturer based in Turin. Fiat has also manufactured railway engines and carrieges , military vehicles , farm tractors and aircraft during its more than century-long history. Fiat not including Chryster was the fourth largest European automaker by production behind Volkswagen Group , PSA and Renault and the largest automaker by production in the world in 2011. It acquired Lancia in 1968 which became shareholder of Ferrari in 1969. It took control of Alfa Romeo from the Italian government in 1986 purchased Maserati in 1993.

SEAT

SEAT is the only major Spanish car manufacturer with the ability and the infrastructure to develop its own cars in house.
The headquarter as well as the main manufacturing facilities are can be found in Martorell an industrial town located some 30 kilometers northwest of Barcelona. It has a porduction capacity around 600, 000 units per annum. The plant was opened on February 22, 1993 by King Juan Carlos of Spain and replaced SEAT's former assembly plant by the coast in Barcelona's freeport zone also known as Zona Franca. A rail connection  between SEAT"s Martorell and Zona Franca complexes facilities vehicle and parts transportation between the two sites.

Lexus

Lexus was first introduced in the United States in 1989. It is luxury vehicles division of Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation.
It is now sold globally and has become Japan's largest selling make premium cars. The Lexus Marque is marketed in over 70 countries and territories worldwide. It has ranked among the ten largest Japanese global brands in market value, The headquarter of Lexus is can be found in Nagoya , Japan. The operational centers are located in Brussels , Belgium and Torrance , California , United Sates. The F1 project was derived in 1983 when the Toyota chairman Eiji Toyoda summoned a secret meeting of company executives , to whom he posed the question , "Can create a luxury vehicle to challenge the world's best? " and that question prompted Toyota to embark on a top-secret project.

Chevrolet

Chevrolet is an American brand of vehicle produced by General Motors.
It is also known as Chevy. Chevrolet was found by Louis Chevrolet and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant on November 3 , 1911. It was acquired by General Motors in 1918. It was positioned by Alfred Sloan to sell mainstream vehicles to complete with Henry Ford's Model in the 1920's , with "Chevrolet" or "Chevy" being synonymous with GM in North America. Actual design work for the first Chevy , the costly Series C Classic Six , was drawn up by Etiene Planche , following instructions from Louis. The first C prototype was ready months before Chevrolet was actually incoporated.

Land Rover

Land Rover is a part of the Jaguar Land Rover Group , a subsidiary of Tata Motors of India.
It as british car manufacturer  which headquarter is can be found in Gaydon , Warwickshire , United Kingdom. It is specialize in four-wheel-drive vehicles. It is the second oldest four-wheel-drive-car-brand in the world after Jeep. The Land Rover name was originally used by the Rover Company for one specific vehicle model , named simply the Land Rover , launched by Rover in 1948. The design for the original Land Rover vehicle was started in 1947 by Maurice Wilks, chief designer at the Rover Company, on his farm in Neborough Anglesey. It is said that he was inspired by an American World War II Jeep that he used one summer at his holiday home in Wales.

Misubishi

Misubishi Group
also known as Misubishi Group of Companies or Misubishi Companies is a group autonomous Japaneses multinational companies covering a range of business which shares the Misubishi brand , trademark and legacy. The top 25 companies are also members of the Misubishi Kinyokai or "Friday Club", and meet monthly in addition the Misubishi.com Committee exists to facilitate communication and access of the Misubishi brand through a portal web site. Yataro Iwasaki was the first  who established the Misubishi as a shipping firm in 1870. The name was changed to Misubishi Shokai in 1873.

Skoda


Skoda Auto also known as Skoda is a automobile manufacturer based in the Czech Republic.
Year 2000, when Skoda became the fully owned by the Volkswagen Group. It was the year which was positioned as the entry brand to the group. The year 2012 was when its total global sales reached 939, 200. Skoda Works was established as an arms manufacturer in 1859 and Skoda Auto and its predecessors is one of five oldest companies that begun producing cars and has an unbroken history together with Tatra , Daimler , Opel and Peugeot. The origins of what became Skoda Auto go back to the early 1890s.

Suzuki

Suzuki Motor Corporation
also known as Suzuki Kabushiki Kaisha is a Japanese multinational corporation which specializes in manufacturing automobiles , vehicles , motorcycles , all terrain vehicles ( ATVs) , outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines. The headquarters of Suzuki is can be found in Minami ku , Hamamatsu , Japan. It was the tenth biggest automaker by production worlwide last 2011. Suzuki employs over 45 , 000 and has 35 main production facilities in 23 countries and 133 distributors in 192 countries.

Ford

Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16 , 1903.
It is an American multinational automaker which the headquarter is can be found is Dearborn , Michigan , a suburb of Detroit. The company is selling automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand and luxury cars under the Lincoln brand. It owns small staked in Mazda of Japan and Aston Martin of the United Kingdom. It is listed on the New York Stock. !989 and 2000 respectively when Ford's former UK Jaguar and Land Rover was acquired.

Renault

Renault S.A. was established in 1899 as a French multinational vehicle manufacturer.
It was the third biggest automaker in Europe by production behind Volkswagen Group and PSA. Also the Ninth biggest automaker by production in the world. Headquarters of Renault is in Boulogne Billancourt France.Renault is also one of the owner of the Romanian automaker Dacia, as well as the Korean Renault Samsung Motors. It also owns subsidiaries RCI Banque which is providing automotive financing. Also the Renault Retail Group and Motrio.

Citroën

Citroën was founded in the year 1919 by French industrialist Andre Gustave Citroën.
It is the major French automobile manufacturer , part of the PSA Peugeot Citroën Group. Citroën was the mass production car company outside the USA and poineered the modern concept of creating sales and service network that complements the motor car. It is the 4th largest automaker in the world and also the largest car manufacturer in Europe. Citroën had produced the Europe's first all-steel-bodied car , the B10 in 1924. 

Dacia Automobiles

Dacia Automobile S.A. is originally automaker from country of Romania.
The named was derived from the historic region that constitutes much of present-day in Romania. It was founded 1966 under the name Uzina de Autoturisme Pitesti ( UAP). The main factory of Dacia was built in 1968 in Colibasi which is now called Mioveni near Pitesti. Dacia acquired the tooling and basic designs of the Renault. It was decided to produce the Renault 8 under license ; it was known as the Dacia 1100. Fron the year 1968 to 1972 some 44 , 000 were produced with a very minor cosmetic change to the front in early 1970.

Volkswagen

Volkswagen is a German automobile that headquarters in Wolfsburg , Lower Saxony Germany.
It is the product of the biggest German automaker and the second biggest automaker in the world, Volkswagen Group. Volkswagen Golf, the Volkswagen Beetle and the Volkswagen Passat are the three cars of Volkswagen that are in the top 10 list of the best selling cars of all time. The word Volkswagen is in German language which means " people's car ". Its current slogan is "Das Auto " which means "The Car". Year 1937 when Volkswagen was originally founded by the Nazi trade union , The German Labour Front.

Friday, April 5, 2013

Honda

Honda Motor Company was found by Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujsawa from Hamamatsu Japan on September 24 1948.
It is a Japanese public multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. It has been the world's largest motorcycle since 1959. It was also the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year. Honda is also manufactures garden equipment , marine engines , personal watercraft and power generators. They have ASIMO robot which has released in 2000. The first production automobile from Honda was the T360 mini pick-up truck which went on sale in August 1963.

Toyota

Toyota Motor Corporation headquarter is can be found in Toyota Aichi Japan.
It is a kind of Japanese multinational automaker. 300, 734 people worlwide were employed in the Toyota Motor Cosporation during the  year 2010. It became the third largest automobile manufacturer in 2011 after General Motors and Volkswagen group. It is also the 11th largest company in the world by revenue. It was reported to manufacture two hundred million vehicles last July 2012.  The company was founded in 1937 by Japanese Nationality Kiichiro Toyoda as a spinoff from his father's company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. Akio Toyoda is the present president of Toyota company. Fujio Cho is the present chairman.  

Mercedez Benz

Mercedez Benz was found by Karl Benz , a German nationality in the year 1886.
It is a multinational division of the German manufactuere Daimler AG, and the the brand was use for luxury automobiles , buses , couches and trucks. It can be found in Stuttgart , Germany. It is now being served worldwide. Mercedez AMG  became majority owned division of Mercedes- Benz in 1998. Sports car with McLaren Cars was produced between 2003 and 2009. Nowadays Mercedes Benz vehicles are now being manufactured and resembleed in different countries such as Argentina , Autria, Bonia , Herzegonia, Brazil, Canada , China , Egypt , German , Finland , Hungary , India , Indonesia , Iran , Mexico , Nigeria , Philippines , Spain , Turkey ,  United States and Vietnam.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

BMW (Bavarian Motor Works)

Bavarian Motor Works or BMW is also known as Bayerische Motoren Werke AG. It is a german automobile, motorcycle and engine  manufacturing company founded in 1917. It a part of "German Big 3 " luxury automakers along with Audi and Mercedes Benz that are three best selling automibile in the whole world. 

YearBMWMINIRolls-RoyceMotorcycle
20051,122,308200,11969292,012
20061,179,317186,674847103,759
20071,302,774237,7001,029104,396
20081,203,482235,0191,417118,452
20091,043,829213,67091893,243
20101,236,989241,0433,221112,271

Current Models are BMW 5 series ( F10 ) , BMW Z4 ( E89)  , BMW X3 (F25) ,
1 Series M Couple

Ferrari

Ferrari S.p. A. is a sports car founded by Enzo Ferrari , a company sponsored drivers  in 1929 as Scuderia Ferrari  that is manufactured in Maranello , Italy.
For many years it was improved and became very popular as a race car especially in Formula One. Ferrari has considered making hybrids for example a F430 spider that runs on ethanol was displayed at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show. It announced that that hybrid will be in prodcution in 2015. V6 and V8 , V12, Flat 12 ( boxer ) , Halo car F , Mondial , Testarossa are some examples or models used by naming scheme based on engine displacement.