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Automobile Models
The design of modern cars is typically handled by designers (aka stylists), engineers and modellers. A company's design director may still take responsibility for the whole car. Design of the suspension, the engine, the transmission, the styling, the crash protection, the electronics, the interior, and the production engineering of the car are tasks that are often separated.
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Ford Taurus
The Ford Taurus is a midsize car sold by the Ford Motor Company in North America as a sedan and station wagon. Introduced in December 1985 as a 1986 model, Ford sold nearly 7 million Tauruses in its 20 years of production. The Taurus also had a Mercury sibling called the Sable.
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Bentley Continental
The Bentley Continental is a luxury automobile made by Bentley. The name was used in the 1950s and has been applied to a modern car as well.
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MG T
The MG T series of cars (including the TA, TB, TC, TD, and TF) was a basic body-on-frame sports car produced from 1936 through 1955. It was replaced by the MGA.
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Chevrolet K5 Blazer
Mack Trucks is a famous truck manufacturing company based in the United States, and now owned by AB Volvo. The company's headquarters are located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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Automobile Manufacturers
Automakers are companies that produce automobiles. Most of them are based in Germany, Japan, South Korea or the United States.
They are often influential political groups, hence they often affect environmental issues.
They also can be thought of as primarily financial services companies, as the majority of their profits come from the loans they give to people to buy their cars. In some cases this is the only source of profit.
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Ford Motor Company
The Ford Motor Company (often referred to simply as Ford; sometimes nicknamed FoMoCo), NYSE: F is an automobile maker founded by Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, and incorporated on June 16, 1903.
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Chevrolet
Chevrolet, or Chevy, is a brand of automobile, now part of the General Motors group.
One co-founder, Louis Chevrolet, was a racing driver, born on December 25, 1878 in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland. The other co-founder, William C. Durant, had been forced out of GM in 1910 and wanted to use Louis Chevrolet's designs to rebuild his own reputation as a force in the automobile industry.
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Mack Trucks
Mack Trucks is a famous truck manufacturing company based in the United States, and now owned by AB Volvo. The company's headquarters are located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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BMW
BMW AG (an abbreviation for Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, or in English, Bavarian Motor Works), is a German company and manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. BMW is the parent company of the Mini and Rolls-Royce car brands, and, formerly, Rover.
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Saab
Saab is an aircraft and automobile concern based in Sweden, founded 1937 in Linkoping. Its name is an acronym for "Svenska Aeroplan AB," where "AB" stands for "aktiebolag" ("limited company").
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An automobile is a wheeled vehicle that carries its own motor. Different types of automobiles include cars, buses, trucks, jeeps, and vans, with cars being the most popular by far. The term is derived from Greek 'autos' (self) and Latin 'movere' (move), referring to the fact that it 'moves by itself'. Earlier terms for automobile
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include 'horseless carriage' and 'motor car'. An automobile has seats for the driver and, almost without exception, one or more passengers. It is the main source of transportation across the world.
In 2005 there are 500 million cars worldwide (0.07 per capita), of which 220 million in the USA alone (0.75 per capita).
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