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EgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia...
- Arab American Vehicles
Arab American Vehicles is an Egyptian automobile manufacturer based in Cairo, Egypt.Established in 1977, the company manufactures various vehicles under license from Daimler AG, Kia, Chrysler LLC, and Peugeot...
- Ghabbour Group
- MCV Egypt
- Nasr (1960-2008)
- Ramses (1959-1973)
- Watania Automotive Manufacturing Company
South AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland, while Lesotho is an independent country surrounded by South Africa.Modern...
- Badsey (1981-1983)
- Birkin
Birkin Cars, Ltd. is a South African-based car manufacturer. The company's specialty and only currently-produced vehicle is the S3 Roadster, a kit-car copy of the Lotus Super 7. The founder and owner of the company is John Watson, a descended relative of pioneering race car driver Henry...
(1982-present)
- GSM
Glassport Motor Company was a South African motor manufacturer based in Cape Town between 1958 and 1964. They produced the Dart and Flamingo sports cars. The name Glass Sport Motors is due to their use of fiberglass. GSM narrowly missed being South Africas first sports car maker, beaten by the GRP...
(1958-1964)
- Hayden (1998-present)
- Interstate (1980-c.1985)
- Libra (1990s)
- Protea
The Protea was a two seater sports car built in South Africa by G.R.P. Engineering between 1957 and 1958. Either 14 or 26 units were completed...
(1957-1958)
- Ranger
The Ranger was a car sold by General Motors in South Africa in the early 1970s. Known as 'South Africa's Own Car', with a springbok badge, it was based on the European Opel Rekord, with a Chevrolet engine...
(1968-1973)
AsiaAsia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.6% of the earth's total surface area and with approximately 4 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population.Asia is traditionally defined as part of the...
EuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast...
CanadaCanada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
- Acadian
Acadian was a make of automobile produced by General Motors of Canada from 1962 to 1971. The Acadian was introduced so that Canadian Pontiac-Buick dealers would have a compact model to sell, since the Pontiac Tempest was unavailable in Canada...
(1961-1971)
- Acme (1910-1911)
- Allard (1999-present)
- Amherst
The Amherst was a Canadian automobile manufactured for one year only, 1912. The company offered a "Two-in-One", the Amherst 40, which could be converted into a truck with the removal of the rear seats. Nine cars were completed before the company folded....
(1912)
- Asüna
Asüna was a captive import automobile brand created in 1992 for the Canadian market by General Motors as a counterpart to Geo. It was one of two successors to the Passport brand, which had a similar intent....
(1992-1995)
- Barrie (1919-1920)
- Bell (1917-1918)
- Bourassa
Bourassa may refer to:*Bourassa , a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada*Bourassa , now part of Bourassa-Sauvé, a provincial electoral district in Quebec*Henri Bourassa, politician...
(1926)
- Bricklin (1974-1975)
- Brintnell (1912)
- Brock
Brock Motors Ltd. , was founded by William Riley Stansell in 1921 in Amherstberg, Ontario, Canada. The factory had previously been home to Amherst cars. The company announced that it intended to build 10,000 vehicles per year...
(1921)
- Brockville (1911-1915)
- Brooks
Brooks Steam Motors, Ltd. was a Canadian manufacturer of steam cars established in March 1923. Its cars more closely resembled the Stanley Steamers in terms of engineering rather than the more sophisticated Doble steam cars. The company was formed from the defunct Detroit Steam Motors...
(1923-1926)
- Canadian
Colonial Motors Ltd. produced one prototype in 1922. It was designed by Earl G. Gunn . This prototype, the Canadian, had a six-cylinder engine and Canada's first independent front suspension....
(1921)
- Canadian Motor
The Canadian Motor was a Canadian electric car manufactured from 1900 until 1902.Billed as being "ideal for any first-class automobilist to drive", the cars could travel up to 45 miles on one change of their batteries...
(1900-1902)
- Case (1907-1909)
- Chatham (1907-1908)
- Clinton
The Clinton was a Canadian automobile manufactured between 1911 and 1912. The company initially made threshers, but when the factory burned down it was rebuilt and refitted for the manufacture of cars. Fewer than ten were produced, all four-cylinders with American engines....
(1911-1912)
- Colonial
Colonial Motors Ltd. produced one prototype in 1922. It was designed by Earl G. Gunn . This prototype, the Canadian, had a six-cylinder engine and Canada's first independent front suspension....
(1922)
- Comet (1907-1909)
- Crow (1915-1918)
- Danduran & Jennings (1895)
- Dart (1914)
- Davis (1924)
- Detroit-Chatham (1911-1912)
- Diamond Arrow (1909-1912)
- Dominion (1911)
- Dominion (1914)
- Duplex (1907-1909)
- Enterra
Enterra Vipre is an out-of-production Canadian sports car.- History :In the mid 1980s, Enterra Technologies Ltd. allegedly received C$8 to 10 million loan guarantees and tax credits from the Canadian government's Scientific Research Council...
(1987)
- Fisher (1914-1915)
- Forster (1920-1922)
- Frontenac
-Dominion Motors:Durant Motors Company of New York, New York first used the Frontenac marque in 1931 on vehicles built and sold in Canada. The Canadian Durant firm was acquired by a group of Canadian investors and renamed Dominion Motors Limited. The firm continued building Durant and Frontenac...
(1931-1933)
- Frontenac
-Dominion Motors:Durant Motors Company of New York, New York first used the Frontenac marque in 1931 on vehicles built and sold in Canada. The Canadian Durant firm was acquired by a group of Canadian investors and renamed Dominion Motors Limited. The firm continued building Durant and Frontenac...
(1959-1960)
- Galt (1911-1912)
- Galt (1913-1915)
- Gareau
The Gareau was a Canadian automobile manufactured only in 1910. Only three 35 hp worm-drive fours were completed before the firm, based in Montreal, folded for lack of working capital....
(1910)
- Gray-Dort
Gray-Dort Motors was a Canadian automobile manufacturer in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, from 1915 to 1925. It started as Canadian carriage works of William Gray & Sons Company Ltd, founded in 1855 by William Gray. In the mid 1900s Robert Gray began to build Ford bodies for the Walkerville factory....
(1915-1925)
- Guy (1911)
- Harding (1911-1912)
- Jules 30 (1911-1912)
- Kennedy (1909-1912)
- Leroy (1899-1907)
- Lethbridge (1908-1909)
- Locus
- Plethore
The HTT Pléthore is a Canadian sports car. It used to be called "Locus Plethore". Dubbed the "Quebec Bomb", it is developed by HTT Technologies in Quebec, Canada, and is led by Luc Chartrand. It debuted at the 2007 Montreal International Auto Show as a preproduction foam prototype...
- London Six
London Motors Ltd., London, Ontario. 1921-1924The London Six was one of the more successful all-Canadian cars of its time, offering a variety of open and closed models priced from $2600 for the 5-seater touring car to $3700 for the sedan. Designed by William R...
(1922-1924)
- Manic GT
The Manic GT was a two-seater sports car built in Canada from 1969-1971, first in Terrebonne, Québec and later in Sorel-Tracy, Québec.They were a rear engine car built largely using Renault components, with a molded fiberglass body. The Manic GT was to be sold and serviced by Renault dealers across...
(1969-1971)
- Marathon (1976-1981)
- McKay (1911-1914)
- McLaughlin
The McLaughlin automobile company began life as the McLaughlin Carriage Company, a blacksmith's shop in the village of Enniskillen, located 20 km north east of Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The company began making horse-drawn carriages in the mid 19th Century, moving to Oshawa, Ontario in 1876...
(1908-1922)
- McLaughlin Buick (1923-1942)
- Menard (1908-1910)
- Meteor
Meteor was a brand of automobiles offered by Ford in Canada from 1949 to 1976. The brand was retired for the 1962 and 1963 model years, when the name was used for the intermediate Mercury Meteor...
(1949-1976)
- Monarch
The Monarch was an automobile built in Detroit, Michigan by the Monarch Motor Car Company from 1913 to 1917.Joseph Bloom founded the company in the spring of 1913; by August, the company moved into the former Carhartt Motor Car Company factory. The car itself was designed by Bloom's brother-in-law...
(1946-1961)
- Moose Jaw Standard
The Moose Jaw Standard was a Canadian automobile manufactured in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1917.Five local residents imported the parts to build 25 luxury cars from the United States; these were to be powered by Continental engines. Once each investor had a car, they gave up the concern when they...
(1916-1918)
- National
- Oxford (1913-1915)
- Palm (1918-1919)
- Peck (1913)
- Publix (1947-1948)
- Queen
The Queen was a Canadian automobile manufactured in Toronto between 1901 and 1903. A gas buggy, it had a single-cylinder 824 cc engine....
(1901-1903)
- Regal (1914-1917)
- Roberts Six (1921)
- Royal Six (1921)
- Russell (1905-1916)
- Russell-Knight (1910-1915)
- Sager (1910)
- Sellew-Royce (1911)
- Still (1899-1903)
- Studebaker
Studebaker of Canada Ltd. was the name given to Studebaker Corporation's Canadian manufacturing arm.While Studebaker produced cars in Canada prior to World War II, Studebaker's first modern automobile factory was established at Hamilton, Ontario in 1947, in an anti-aircraft gun plant purchased from...
(1963-1966)
- Timmis (1968-present)
- Tudhope
James Brockett Tudhope was a Canadian manufacturer and politician.Tudhope was born in Oro Township, Canada West in 1858, the son of William Tudhope, a carriage manufacturer. In 1897, he formed the Tudhope Carriage Company in Orillia with his brothers...
(1906-1913)
- Tudpole
- Two-in-One
- Winnipeg (1921)
- Wright (1929)
- ZENN
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
- Alpha Sports
Alpha Sports is an Australian kit car manufacturer. It makes sports cars originally based on the styling of the Lotus Seven but have evolved to construct their own distinctive designs....
- Amuza
Amuza Motors Pty Ltd of Perth is an Australian automotive company which exhibited its Ford Falcon-based stretch limo at the 2003 Tokyo Auto Salon. It is marketed in Japan and Singapore as well....
- Ascort
The Ascort was an Australian automobile manufactured by Continental Coachwork of Sydney from 1958 to 1960. It was basically a Volkswagen Beetle turned into a four-seater touring coupe and featured a roomy, double-skinned body made out of fiberglass and closely resembled a 1970s Karmann Ghia coupe. ...
(1958-1960)
- Australian Motor Industries
Australian Motor Industries was an automobile assembly firm that was significant in the early history of the automobile industry in Australia.- Start of production :...
- Australian Kit Car (1995-present)
- Australian Six
The Australian Six was an Australian automobile manufactured from 1919 to 1930. It was a grandiose attempt to compete against imported cars from the United States, and was produced from a mixture of local and imported parts. Vehicles featured a conventional chassis layout and a choice of five...
(1919-1930)
- Australis
The Australis was an Australian automobile manufactured in Leichhardt, New South Wales, from 1897 to 1907. The company began production with a De Dion powered quadricycle, soon producing a 7 hp twin-cylinder light buggy that sold for $270....
(1897-1907)
- Birchfield
Birchfield Motor Company of Rockingham, Western Australia is a small Australian specialty car manufacturer, making replicas of the 1937 SS Jaguar model on individual orders. Birchfield is the continuation of earlier British Shapecraft that is known to have built about 20 replicas....
(2003-present)
- Blade Electric Vehicles
- 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. Kit car production started with the Mk IV and V for 4 and 6 cylinder Holden engines and the...
(1963-present)
- Nagari
The Bolwell Nagari was one of the cars built by the three Bolwell brothers, Campbell Bolwell, Winston Bolwell and Graeme Bolwell, who started an Australian car company in Mordialloc, Victoria called Bolwell that initially produced kit cars for assembly by the buyers...
- Bomac
- Buchanan
N H Buchanan Motor Co Pty Ltd was an Australian kit car manufacturer. It made sports cars in the 1950s.The original body produced by Buchanan was a fibreglass item based on an Aston Martin DB3-S racing car. Buchanan borrowed a DB3-S and pulled moulds from it while it was in Australia...
- Buckle (1955-1959)
- Bullet
Dreamt up by John Bettini, the first Bullet car prototype was built in 1996 utilising a Mazda MX-5 body. The chassis was designed and fabricated by Barry Pearson, it consisted of a square-tube spaceframe onto which a 13B rotary powerplant from a Mazda RX-7 was fitted.Two more years of development...
(1996-present)
- Bushranger
The Bushranger is an Australian 4wd buggy made by John E Davies Motor Works derived from the British Dakar but is considerably different, although both use Range Rover parts. Options like roofs, front and rear butterfly doors and canvas doors and roofs were available as well. Little is known about...
- Caldwell Vale
The Caldwell Vale was an Australian automobile built from 1907 to 1913. Few technical details have survived about the marque, fewer than a dozen examples of which appear to have been made. A touring car, it is known to have had four-wheel drive and a 30 hp six-cylinder engine; one prototype...
(1907-1913)
- Canstel
- Carbontech (1999-present)
- Cheetah Racing Cars
- Chrysler
Chrysler Australia is a trading name for DaimlerChrysler Australia/Pacific Pty Ltd. It is the importer of Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles for sale in the Australian marketplace...
- Valiant
The Chrysler Valiant was a passenger car introduced by Chrysler Australia in 1962 with production ceasing in 1981. Initially a rebadged import of the Plymouth Valiant from the U.S. where production ceased in 1976, the Valiant range was sold throughout Australia and New Zealand, as well as South...
- Classic Glass
Classic Glass is an Australian maker of Shelby 427 replicas. A car can be ordered with an extended chassis for increased legroom and easier access....
- Classic Revival (1989-present)
- Cobra Craft
- Daktari
- Daytona
Daytona Motors Pty Ltd of Woodend, Victoria, Australia is a kit car maker that builds the X7, a car very similar to the Lotus 7....
(2002-present)
- Deuce Customs (1979-present)
- Devaux (2001-present)
- DRB
DRB Sports Cars produce Shelby Cobra and Ford GT40 replicas in Australia....
(1997-present)
- Elfin
Elfin Sports Cars Pty Ltd is the current name of the car company which was founded by Garrie Cooper. It has been an Australian manufacturer of sports cars and motor racing cars since 1957....
(1958-present)
- MS8 Streamliner
The Elfin MS8 Streamliner is a sports car, successor to the Elfin MS7, a Repco-Holden V8 powered sports racing car which won the 1975 Australian Sports Car Championship and the 1976 Australian Tourist Trophy....
- MS8 Clubman
The Elfin MS8 Clubman is a sports car, successor to the Elfin MS7, a Repco-Holden V8 powered Group A Sports Car which won the 1975 Australian Sports Car Championship and the 1976 Australian Tourist Trophy....
- Evans
- Finch
Founded by Ray Finch in 1964, Finch is a car restoration company that also builds 1939 SS100 Jaguar and 1959 Ferrari Testa Rossa replicas. It is based in Mount Barker, South Australia.-External links:*...
- Ford
Ford Australia is the Australian subsidiary of Ford Motor Company and was founded in Geelong, Victoria in 1925 as an outpost of Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. At that time, Ford Canada was a separate company from Ford USA...
- Falcon
The Ford Falcon is a full-size car which has been manufactured by Ford Australia since 1960. Each model from the XA series of 1972 onward has been designed, developed and built in Australia, following the phasing out of the American Falcon of 1960-71 which had been re-engineered locally for the...
- Territory
The Ford Territory is a crossover SUV built by Ford Australia and based on the EA169 platform of the Ford BA Falcon. It was released in April 2004. Its code name inside Ford was E265. It won the 2004 Wheels Car of the Year award, the reviewers praising car-like handling and practicality as reasons...
- G-Force
G-Force Sports Cars was founded by Rob Grave in 1990 and is based in Kardinya, Western Australia. They currently produce Cobra replicas....
(1986-present)
- Giocattolo
Giocattolo Motori Pty Ltd was a short-lived Australian car company, founded in 1986 by sports car enthusiast Paul Halstead and Formula One designer Barry Lock. The company's name comes from the Italian word for "toy"....
- Goggomobile (1958-1961)
- Goy
- Hartnett
Sir Laurence John Hartnett CBE was an engineer who made several important contributions to the Australian automotive industry.-Appointment as Managing Director of General Motors- Holden:...
(1949-1955)
- Holden
GM Holden Ltd is an Australian automaker based in Port Melbourne, Victoria. The company was founded in 1856 as a saddlery business, but later moved into the automotive field, becoming a subsidiary of General Motors in 1931. Holden has taken charge of vehicle operations for GM in Australasia and,...
(1948-present)
- Homebush
- Ilinga
Ilinga was an Australian car manufacturer founded in Melbourne by Tony Farrell and his partner, Daryl Davies, in business from 1974 to 1975. The company's only model, the AF-2, saw only two examples produced, despite having fifteen customers order one...
- Joss
- Supercar
The Joss Supercar is an Australian built mid-engine sports car. Designed by car enthusiast Matt Thomas it is under design since 2003. In January 2006 Joss stated that the required investment money for finalizing the car's design was still being pursued and further 12 to 18 months will then be...
- Kaditcha
Kaditcha was an automobile manufacturer in Australia. The company, formed by Queensland engineer Barry Lock, made open wheel and sports car racing cars, including cars for Formula 5000 and Australian Formula 2. The peak of Kaditcha's form was in the mid-1980s when Kaditcha sports cars dominated the...
- Kraftwerkz (2002-present)
- Leyland
British Motor Corporation was formed in 1957 when the Australian interests of the companies that made up the United Kingdom British Motor Corporation were amalgamated...
(1973-1975)
- P76
The Leyland P76 is a large car produced by Leyland Australia, the Australian subsidiary of British Leyland. Featuring what was described at the time as the "standard Australian wheelbase of 111 inches", it was intended to provide the company with a genuine rival to large local models like the Ford...
- Lightburn
Lightburn is the name of an Australian manufacturer who briefly entered the passenger car market in the mid-1960s with the oddly shaped Lightburn Zeta sedan. The cars were built in a washing machine factory at Camden Park in Adelaide by the company which was owned by Harold Lightburn...
- Lloyd-Hartnett
- Mitsubishi
Mitsubishi Motors Australia Limited is a fully-owned subsidiary of parent company Mitsubishi Motors Corporation of Japan. Its Australian administrative headquarters are located at Tonsley Park , with branch offices in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth...
- Magna
The Mitsubishi Magna is a mid-size car built between May 1985 to September 2005 by Mitsubishi Motors Australia at the Tonsley Park assembly plant spanning three generations...
- 380
The Mitsubishi 380 is a mid-size car that was produced by Mitsubishi Motors Australia between 2005 and 2008. It was the successor to the Mitsubishi Magna/Verada line of vehicles first introduced in 1985. The company spent over AU$600 million developing and producing the car, which is heavily based...
- Nasenbaer
- Nota
Nota is an automobile manufacturer in Australia. The company was founded by Guy Buckingham in 1952. He was an aircraft engineer and used his expertise to build triangulated spaceframed sportscars. Possibly Australia's first space-framed cars. In 1958 the company built a series of all-enveloping...
(1955-present)
- Pellandini Cars
Pellandini Cars was a manufacturer of kit cars during the early 1970s that was located in South Australia.- History :Englishman Peter Pellandine founded Pellandini Cars Ltd in 1970 at Cherry Gardens, South Australia. He first produced a curvy, gull-wing coupe that used a mid-mounted BMC Mini...
- Pioneer (1897-1898)
- Piper
- PRB
PRB is an Australian builder of Clubman-style sportscars , the PRB Clubman was created by Peter Raymond Bladwell in 1978...
- Purvis
-People:* Alexandra Purvis, Australian actress* Jack Purvis, jazz musician* Jeff Purvis, race car driver* Jeremy Purvis, Scottish MP* John Purvis, Scottish MEP* Katharine Purvis, writer of When the Saints Go Marching in...
- Eureka
The Purvis Eureka was a sports car produced in Australia from 1974 to 1991. First exhibited at the 1974 Melbourne Auto Show, the car was based on the British Nova design of 1971. The Eureka, which was manufactured by Purvis Cars at Dandenong in Victoria, utilised a Volkswagen Beetle chassis, a...
- Python
Python is a Cobra replica company founded by George Vidovic in Melbourne, Australia, in 1981. This company has no relation to the Python automobile created in the 1980s by Kelly Motors....
(1981-present)
- RCM
- RMC
- Roaring Forties (1997-present)
- Robnell
- Sharpbuilt
- Shrike
Shrike was a racing car developed in Australia by the Croydon Park Institute of TAFE in 1988 and 1989. It was based on the then new Formula Holden regulations which involved an aluminium tub monocoque, powered by a 3.8 litre Buick sourced Holden engine, then in use to power the Holden Commodore...
- Skelta (2004-present)
- Southern Cross
The Southern Cross was an Australian automobile manufactured between 1931 and 1935.Financed by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, a noted flying pioneer, the car featured a monocoque chassis and body, and was built from laminated plywood. Rumors quickly began circulating that the body was a fire risk,...
(1931-1935)
- Statesman
Statesman was an automotive marque created by General Motors Holden , the Australian subsidiary of General Motors in 1971. Statesman vehicles were sold through Holden's dealerships, and were initially based on the mainstream Holden HQ models, but offered more luxury and considerably extended length...
- White Pointer
New ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands. The indigenous Māori named New Zealand Aotearoa, commonly translated as The Land of the Long White Cloud...
- Ace Classic
The Ace Classic is a replica of the AC Cobra sports car. Since 1991 it has been built in New Zealand, and then been shipped to Los Angeles for assembly....
- Alamc (1985-present)
- Beattie (1997-present)
- Blenheim (1915)
- Chevron (1991-1997)
- De Joux
Ferris de Joux was a very talented designer and maker of sportscars. Internationally he is perhaps best known as the designer and manufacturer of a series of fibreglass bodies for Buckler sportscars, however in New Zealand he is best known for his very pretty Mini derivative, the de Joux Mini GT...
(1970)
- Dennison (1900-1905)
- Fraser (1988-present)
- Heron (1983-1990)
- Hulme (2005-present)
- Leitch (1986-present)
- Marlborough (1919-1922)
- McRae (1990-present)
- Microbond (1957)
- Trekka
The Škoda powered Trekka was a light utility vehicle manufactured in New Zealand between 1966 and 1973. It is the only vehicle designed and manufactured in New Zealand to have entered commercial production for an extended period...
(1966-1973)
ArgentinaArgentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico,...
- Anasagasti
The Anasagasti was the first automobile to be built in Argentina; it was manufactured by Horacio Anasagasti of Buenos Aires from 1912 to 1914. Anasagasti's first vehicle was a 15 horsepower Ballot-engined car...
(1911-1915)
- Andino
Andino was a small automobile manufacturer around 1967 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Andino built sports coupés using Renault engines.-External links:*...
(1967-1973)
- Anadón (1995-present)
- ASA
ASA Aluminium Body is an Argentinian company that produces exact replicas of racing cars from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.- History:In 1969 a company named Lotus Argentina started producing licenced Lotus Seven roadsters...
(1985-present)
- Autoar (1950-1962)
- Bambi (1961)
- Biscayne
Biscayne can refer to:Places:In South Florida:* Key Biscayne, an island in Miami-Dade County** Key Biscayne, Florida, a village on Key Biscayne island* Biscayne Bay, a lagoon on the Atlantic coast, bounded in part by Key Biscayne...
(1998-present)
- Dinarg (1961-1962)
- Di Tella
Siam Di Tella was an Argentine manufacturing company; the name Siam is an acronym from Sección Industrial Amasadoras Mecánicas.-History:...
(1959-1965)
- Gilda (1957)
- Graciela (1957-1963)
- Hispano-Argentina (1940-1945)
- IKA (1956-1962)
- Jefe (1956)
- Justicialista (1953-1955)
- JVA (1998-present)
- RG Sport (1992-1997)
- Zunder (1960-1962)
BrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the fifth largest country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the fifth most populous country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean...
- Abais
- Acha
Acha may refer to:* Acha, Argyll and Bute, Scotland* Acha , a character in Namco's 1986 arcade game, Toy Pop* Acha Mountain Fortress, an earthen fortress-See also:* Achá* American Collegiate Hockey Association...
- Adamo
Adamo may refer to:*Mark Adamo, American composer*Salvatore Adamo, Italian/Belgian singer-composer*Adamo, Mozambique*Dell Adamo, a line of Dell laptops*Peter J. D'Adamo, naturopath...
- Agrale
Agrale is a Brazilian manufacturer of military vehicles, motorcycles, scooters, commercial vehicles, engines and agricultural tractors. It is based in Caxias do Sul, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Established in 1962, the brand's current model line-up consists of the Marrua SUV and pick-up truck...
(1982-present)
- Akamine
- Aldee
- Amazon (2001-present)
- AME
Ame, AME, or AmE may refer to* Amé, a soft drink* Adaptive multithreaded encryption* African Methodist Episcopal Church* African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church* AME Accounting Software* Aircraft Maintenance Engineer, in Canada...
- Americar (1995-present)
- Andorinha
Clube de Futebol Andorinha is an amateur football club from Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, established on May 6, 1925.They play their home matches at the Campo do Andorinha, a small stadium with a synthetic playing surface and seating for 400 people. The ground is located in the northern area of...
- Aurora
The Oldsmobile Aurora was a fullsize luxury sports sedan / executive car made by the Oldsmobile division of General Motors and launched in 1995. The Aurora rode on the same Cadillac-derived G platform as the 2-door Buick Riviera....
- Avallone
- Baby Buggy
- Beep
Beep may refer to:* Beep * Beep * "Beep" * "Beep" Bobby Valentino Song* BEEP, a network protocol framework* Beep Media Player...
- Bianco
Bianco is a town and commune in the Province of Reggio Calabria, in southern Italy. It is a seaside town and a popular tourist resort. The main attractions are the remainings of an old abbey and the ruins of a Roman house....
- Brasinca (1964-present)
- BRM Buggy (1969-present)
- Bugre (1970-present)
- Bugway (2001-present)
- Caribe
Caribe may refer to:* Caribe , a computer worm designed for mobile phones* Caribe , a 1975 television series produced by Quinn Martin* Caribe , a 1987 drama film by director Michael Kennedy...
- CBP
CBP may mean:* U.S. Customs and Border Protection* U.S. Border Patrol* Certified Benefits Professional, a designation used by the human resources profession.* Certified Building Professional, a designation used by trained swimming pool builders...
- CBT
CBT can mean:* CBT, a CBC Radio One station in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador* Ceneri Base Tunnel, a railway tunnel under construction in Switzerland* Chicago Board of Trade...
- Centaurus
Centaurus is a bright constellation in the southern sky. One of the largest constellations in the sky, Centaurus was included among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.-Stars:...
- Centigon
Centigon is today a division of Carat Duchatelet Holdings but it traces its roots back to coach builder O'Gara-Hess and Eisenhardt.O'Gara-Hess and Eisenhardt was a specialty vehicle manufacturer based in Fairfield, Ohio in the United States...
- Chamonix
Chamonix is a Brazilian automobile manufacturer which has produced replicas of 1960s Porsche sports cars based on Volkswagen parts since 1987....
(1987-present)
- Cheda
- Cobracar
- Cross Lander
- Dacon
- Dardo
The Dardo was a small two-seater sports car manufactured in Brazil by Corona S. S. Viatura e Equipamento of Diadema, São Paulo between 1979 and 1983....
(1981)
- Democrata
Democrata may refer to:* Democrata Futebol Clube, a Brazilian football club from Sete Lagoas* Esporte Clube Democrata, a Brazilian football club from Governador Valadares...
(1967)
- Dune Car
- Edra (1989-present)
- EMIS (1981-present)
- Emme
- Engesa
Engesa - Engenheiros Especializados S/A was a Brazilian company in the agriculture and defense sectors that specialized in producing tactical military trucks and armored fighting vehicles, including the EE-T1 Osório, EE-3 Jararaca, EE-9 Cascavel and EE-11 Urutu, as well as civilian SUVs similar to...
- Envemo (1978-c.1994)
- Equus
Equus may refer to:* Equus , a genus of animals including horses, donkeys, zebras and onagers* Equus , a play by Peter Shaffer* Equus , a film adaptation of the Peter Shaffer play...
- Fabral
Fabral is a off-road vehicle manufacturer based in Palmas, Tocantins, Brazil. It produces the Santana Jalapao and Santana Anibal, both based on vehicles by Spain-based Santana Motors, which themselves are based on the Land Rover Defender...
- Farus
- Fer-car (1982-present)
- Fibravan (1989-present)
- FNM
FNM can mean one of many things:*Fábrica Nacional de Motores, a Brazilian automobile manufacturer*Faith No More, an American alternative metal band*Fannie Mae, U.S...
(1960-1963)
- Fúria
- Glaspac
- Grancar
- Gurgel
Gurgel was the brand name of Gurgel Veículos, a Brazilian automobile manufacturer, named after its founder, João do Amaral Gurgel. The company was founded in 1969 and specialized in off-road vehicles, many of which were named after Brazil's native tribes. Early models were fiberglass bodies...
(1966-1995)
- Hofstetter (1986-1989)
- JPX
- Kadron
- Karmann
Wilhelm Karmann GmbH, commonly known simply as Karmann, in Osnabrück, Germany is the largest independent motor vehicle manufacturing company in Germany...
- Kremer
- People :* Honorable I. Raymond Kremer, Court of Common Pleas Judge* Andrea Kremer, ESPN and HBO reporter focusing on sports* Gerard de Kremer, Gerardus Mercator* Gidon Kremer, a celebrated Latvian violinist and conductor....
- Lafer (1974-present)
- Lassale
- Lobini
Lobini is a Brazilian automobile manufacturer. The company produces a sports car called the H1 which uses Audi engines and fiberglass bodies produced by fellow Brazilian sports car manufacturer Chamonix....
(2002-present)
- Malzoni
- Matra
Mécanique Avion TRAction or Matra was a French company covering a wide range of activities mainly related to automobile, bicycles, aeronautics and weaponry which from 1994 was a subsidiary of Lagardère Group and which now operates under that name....
- Mirage
A mirage is a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. The word comes to English via the French mirage, from the Latin mirare, meaning "to look at, to wonder at". This is the same root as for "mirror" and "to...
- Miura
Miura can mean:-Places:*Miura, Kanagawa - Japanese city bordering the sea*Miura-Kaigan Station*Miura District, Kanagawa*Miura Peninsula*Ganadería Miura, the home of the Miura fighting bull line-People:*Miura clan - Japanese descended clan of the Taira...
(1977-c.1987)
- Mog
Mog may refer to:* A domestic cat* Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein* Mog , an Abenaki First Nation person from Canada, AKA Heracouansit, Warracansit, Warracunsit, or Warrawcuset...
- Nissin
Nissin Foods is a world-wide company that makes instant ramen noodles. It was established in Japan on September 4, 1948 by Momofuku Ando as and ten years later introduced the first instant ramen noodle product, Chikin Ramen . They established a US subsidiary Nissin Foods in 1970 and sold...
- PAG
PAG may stand for:*Penske Automotive Group under the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol system*Periaqueductal gray, an area of gray matter in the midbrain*Phosphoprotein associated with GEMs, also known as Cbp, Csk-binding protein...
(1988-c.1990)
- Pretty
Pretty may refer to:*Beauty* "Pretty", a song on Korn's third album, Follow the Leader* "Pretty", a song on The Cranberries's debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?...
- Puma
Puma was a Brazilian specialist car manufacturer which built cars from 1967 until roughly 1997. High import tariffs effectively closed Brazil during much of this period to foreign-built cars...
(1967-1997)
- Romi (1956)
- Short
Short may refer to:* Short * Holly Short, a fictional character from the Artemis Fowl series* Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit* Short , stock-trading status* Short film, a cinema format...
- Santa Matilde
The Santa Matilde, or SM4.1, is a legendary sports car designed and produced in Brazil by Cia. Industrial Santa Matilde between 1977 and 1997.- Conception :...
- SS Fiberglass
- TAC
TAC may refer to:* Tác, Hungary* Pablo Tac, a Luiseño Indian who provided a rare contemporary Native American perspective on the institutions and early history of California...
(2006-present)
- Tanger
- Torena
- Troller (1998-present)
- Uirapuru
Uirapuru is a small town and municipality in northwestern Goiás state, Brazil.-Location:Uirapuru is in the São Miguel do Araguaia Microregion, west of the important BR-153 highway. It is connected by a paved road to Crixás, 35 kilometers to the south. The distance to the state capital, Goiânia,...
(1966-1968)
- Villa
A villa was originally an upper-class country house, though since its origins in Roman times the idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably. After the fall of the Republic, a villa became a small, fortified farming compound, gradually re-evolving through the Middle Ages into luxurious,...
- Walk
- W.W. Trevis (1998-present)
UruguayUruguay , is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.1 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area. An estimated 88–94% of the population are of mostly European and/or mixed descent.Uruguay's only land border is...
- Dellepiane (1980)
- El Terruno (1960)
- Grumett (1960-1982)
- Guitolar (1970-2004)
- Hita (1964-1966)
- Indio (1969-1977)
- Industrias WARV (1966-1972)
- Lima
Lima Locomotive Works was an American firm that manufactured railroad locomotives from the 1870s through the 1950s. The company took the most distinctive part of its name from its main shops location in Lima, Ohio. The shops were located between the Baltimore & Ohio's Cincinnati-Toledo main line...
(1970-1980)
- Mauser
- Metalurgica Laguarda (1963)
- Nordex (1962-)
- Regusci (2002-)
- Suntrike (2000-)
- Super
- Taller Danree y Silveira (1950-1960)
Sources
- Georgano, Nick (Ed.). The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. ISBN 1-57958-293-1
- Mazur, Eligiusz (Ed.). World of Cars 2006/2007: Worldwide Car Catalogue. Warsaw: Media Connection, 2006. ISSN 1734-2945
See also