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ASCARI CARS LTD
Type: Private
Industry: Automotive
Founded: 1995 Oxfordshire, England
Products: Automobiles
Owner: Klaas Zwart
Defunct: 2010
Ascari Cars Ltd. was a British automobile manufacturer based in Banbury, England, and founded by Klaas Zwart. The company was named after Alberto Ascari (1918–1955), the first double winner of the World Championship of Drivers.
The company stopped its activity in 2010.
AXON AUTOMOTIVE
Type: Private
Industry: Automotive
Founded: 15 May 2008 United Kingdom
Area served: Worldwide
Products: Car bodies and structural composite components
Services: Design, Analysis, Prototyping
Owner: Bawtry Investments LTD
Defunct: 17 November 2020
Axon Automotive was a British car manufacturer and car components manufacturer based in Northampton, Northamptonshire. The company is focused on design and material technologies.
Axon unveiled its 100 miles per imperial gallon (2.8 L/100 km; 83 mpg‑US) hatchback on 23 May 2008 at the Sexy Green Car Show at the Eden Project. The new car, which was expected to be on sale in 2010, has a claimed CO2 emission rate of less than 80 g/km.
The company was dissolved on 17 November 2020
ALVIS
Type: Private company
Industry: Automotive industry
Successor: Rover Company
Founded: 1919 England
Founder: Thomas George John
Products: Automobiles, military vehicles, aircraft engines
Defunct: 1967
Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd was a British manufacturing company in Coventry from 1919 to 1967. In addition to automobiles designed for the civilian market, the company also produced racing cars, aircraft engines, armoured cars and other armoured fighting vehicles.
Car manufacturing ended after the company became a subsidiary of Rover in 1965, but armoured vehicle manufacture continued. Alvis became part of British Leyland and then in 1982 was sold to United Scientific Holdings, which renamed itself Alvis plc.
The company was dissolved on 1967
ABBOTT MOTOR CO.
Industry: Automobile
Founded: 1909 Detroit, Michigan, later Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Products: automobiles
Defunct: 1918 (Bankrupt)
The Abbott-Detroit was an American luxury automobile manufactured between 1909 and 1919. It was designed by John G. Utz, designer of the Chalmers, who had previously worked for Olds Motor Works and the Autocar Company. Considered powerful and well-designed, the Abbott sported a Continental engine. The cars were guaranteed for life by 1913, when electric lighting and starting had been standardized.
The company moved from Detroit to a larger facility in Cleveland. This proved too stressful on the company's finances, and they declared bankruptcy in April 1918.
The company was bankruptcy on 1918
ARO
Type: Joint-stock company
Industry: Automotive
Founded: 1957 Câmpulung, ArgeÅŸ, Romania
Products: Off-road vehicles
Defunct: 2006
ARO (short for Auto Romania) was a Romanian off-road vehicle manufacturer located in Câmpulung. The first ARO vehicles were produced in 1957, and the last in 2003. For a short while, Daihatsu-powered AROs were sold in Spain and produced in Portugal under the brands Hisparo and Portaro, respectively. In Italy, AROs were produced by Ali Ciemme and sold under the ACM brand, often fitted with Volkswagen engines.
Low volume production of ARO vehicles has restarted under the aegis of a Czech company called Auto Max Czech (AMC).
ASKAM
Industry: Automotive industry
Founded: 1964 Istanbul, Turkey
Products: Trucks, vans
Parent: Çiftçiler Holding
Defunct: 2015 (bankrupt)
Askam was founded in 1962 as joint venture with 60% ownership by Chrysler, the company originally traded under the "Chrysler Sanayi" name. Production of trucks started in 1964 under the Fargo, Desoto, and Dodge brand names.
In 1978, Chrysler sold its share to the local partners and then current owners.
After the merger of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler, the company changed its name to Askam Kamyon Imalat ve Ticaret AÅž and continued to produce its products under the Fargo and Desoto brands.
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The company went bankrupt in 2015.
AUSTIN MOTOR CO.
Industry: Automotive
Successor: British Motor Corporation
Founded: December 1905 Longbridge, England
Founder: Herbert Austin
Products: Automobiles / Rover / Austin Rover / MG / Morris
Defunct: 1952
The Austin Motor Company Limited was a British manufacturer of motor vehicles, founded in 1905 by Herbert Austin. In 1952 it was merged with Morris Motors Limited in the new holding company British Motor Corporation (BMC) Limited, keeping its separate identity. The marque Austin was used until 1987. The trademark is currently owned by the Chinese firm SAIC Motor, after being transferred from bankrupt subsidiary Nanjing Automotive which had acquired it with MG Rover Group in July 2005.
Austin Motor Company (1905–1952)
BMC (1952–1967)
British Leyland (Austin Rover) (1967–1988)
Rover Group (1988–2005)
AUTOBIANCHI
Industry: Automotive
Successor: Lancia
Founded: 11 January 1955 Desio, Italy
Fate: Merged into Lancia
Products: Automobiles
Defunct: 1995
Italian automobile manufacturer, created jointly by Bianchi, Pirelli and Fiat in 1955.
Autobianchi produced only a handful of models during its lifetime, which were almost exclusively small cars, with the biggest being the short-lived Autobianchi A111, a small family car.
Autobianchi was subsequently purchased by the Fiat group and integrated into the operations of Lancia. The Autobianchi marque survived in Italy until 1995, when Y10 production ended.
CAPARO
Industry: Automotive
Tipe: Private
Founded: 2006
Parent: Caparo
Products: Supercars
Defunct: 2019
Caparo Vehicle Technologies (CVT), formerly known as Freestream, was a British company that provided advanced technology development, materials engineering, and design services to automotive, motorsport and aerospace markets. The company was founded under the name Freestream by Graham Halstead and Ben Scott-Geddes, former engineers that worked on the McLaren F1 project. In April 2006, under the guidance and lead from financier, Sean Butcher the company was acquired by Caparo, and renamed Caparo Vehicle Technologies. The company went into administration in 2015 and was then liquidated and fully dissolved by 2019.
CISITALIA
Industry: Automotive
Tipe: Private
Founded: 1946 Turin, Italy
Founder: Piero Dusio
Products: Automobiles
Defunct: 1963 (Bankrupt)
Cisitalia was an Italian sports and racing car brand. The name "Cisitalia" derives from "Compagnia Industriale Sportiva Italia", a business conglomerate founded in Turin in 1946 and controlled by the wealthy industrialist and sportsman Piero Dusio. The Cisitalia 202 GT of 1946 is well known in the world as a "rolling sculpture".
DAEWOO
Industry: Automotive
Founded: 1972 Bupyeong, South Korea
Fate: Reincorporated as GM Daewoo after bankruptcy, then "GM Korea" in 2011
Successor: GM Korea
Products: Automobiles
Defunct: 2011
Daewoo Motors was a South Korean automotive company established in 1937 as "National Motors". The company changed its name several times until 1983 when it became "Daewoo Motors". After running into financial difficulties, it sold most of its assets in 2001 to General Motors, becoming a subsidiary of the American company and in 2011, the name "Daewoo" was definitively removed and the company renamed to GM Korea.
ERF (truck manufacturer)
Industry: Automotive
Founded: 1933 Sandbach, England
Founder: Edwin Richard Foden
Products: Trucks, Buses
Parent: MAN
Defunct: July 2007 (Dissolved)
ERF was a British truck manufacturer established in 1933 by Edwin Richard Foden, from whose initials the company was named.
With ERF badging used for only the market in the United Kingdom, Its factory in Middlewich closed in March 2002, and it was discontinued as a marque by owner MAN in July 2007.