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- NissanIn November 2024, a Nissan executive told the Financial Times that Nissan would cease to exist in "12 to 14 months" without a turnaround. Nissan is a Japanese automaker headquartered in Yokohama. In 2017, it ranked as the sixth largest car…
- HondaHonda has built and sold more of one machine, the Super Cub, than any maker has ever sold of any other motor vehicle. The Japanese company has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959. Its motorcycle production reached…
- Tesla, Inc.Tesla, Inc. is an American electric vehicle and clean energy company, and in 2020 its share price rose by 740%. By the 14th of December 2020, its market value was larger than that of the next nine biggest automakers combined. It is a…
- Mercedes-BenzMercedes-Benz is a German car brand that, in 2018, became the largest premium vehicle brand in the world, with sales of 2.31 million passenger cars. Its slogan is "The Best or Nothing". The company is based in Stuttgart, in…
- Hyundai Motor CompanyHyundai's first US car, the Excel, set a sales record in 1986 and then became a joke.
- ToyotaToyota Motor Corporation had built 300 million vehicles by September 2023. It was the first car maker ever to pass 10 million in a single year, a mark it reached in 2012. That same year it announced its 200 millionth vehicle. Today the…
- AudiAudi began with a boy doing Latin homework in the corner of a crowded room. The room was the apartment of Franz Fikentscher. August Horch had called a meeting there with his close business friends, Paul and Franz Fikentscher, to find a…
- JeepIn 1940, the U.S. Army asked 135 companies for a prototype in 49 days. Only two replied, and the result became the Jeep.
- KiaKia began as a maker of steel tubes and bicycle parts. It was founded in May 1944 as Kyungsung Precision Industry.
- Ford Motor CompanyFord's first president was a banker, not Henry Ford. Investors wanted John S. Gray in charge to calm their fears.
- BYD AutoBYD Auto once wrote off CN¥100 million of research spending on a car that never reached a showroom. Dealers had rejected the prototype, codenamed 316, because of its poor styling. Wang Chuanfu, founder of the parent company, then destroyed…