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Manufacturers

The starting point for every vehicle lineage in the Automobile History library.

Browse by manufacturer

Audi

A German marque shaped by its Zwickau origins, the four-company Auto Union and quattro all-wheel drive.

BMW

A German manufacturer whose history spans aircraft engines, motorcycles, sporting saloons and luxury cars.

Cadillac

An American General Motors luxury marque shaped by precision manufacture, V-engine development, coachbuilt prestige cars and post-war design.

Chevrolet

An American General Motors marque whose history spans affordable cars, trucks, utility vehicles, sports cars and regionally developed models.

Ferrari

An Italian sports-car manufacturer shaped by competition, V12 engines, coachbuilt design and small-series road cars.

Ford

An American marque central to the development of mass-market motoring.

Honda

A Japanese manufacturer that brought motorcycle engineering, efficient powertrains and mass-market innovation to its cars.

Jaguar

A British marque whose sporting cars and luxury saloons joined distinctive design, long-lived engines and competition development.

Mercedes-Benz

A German marque with roots reaching back to the earliest motor cars.

Nissan

A Japanese manufacturer whose history spans Datsun small cars, global family vehicles, off-roaders, sports cars and mass-market electrification.

Porsche

A German sports-car manufacturer shaped by rear-engined road cars, endurance racing and engineering development.

Saab

A Swedish manufacturer whose distinctive front-wheel-drive cars joined practical body styles, safety engineering and production turbocharging.

Toyota

A Japanese manufacturer whose vehicles span passenger cars, commercial vehicles and off-roaders.

Volkswagen

A German manufacturer known for enduring mass-market models and a broad global catalogue.

Volvo

A Swedish marque with a long history of passenger cars, estates and safety engineering.

Each manufacturer record leads to its models, followed by generations, variants and engines.

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