Headquarters: Southfield, Michigan Established: May 1, 1954 Discontinued: June 20, 1988 Founder(s): George W. Mason American Motors Corporation (AMC), formed in 1954, was an American car company known for producing a number of popular vehicles such as the

Headquarters: Detroit, Michigan, USA Established: 1988 Discontinued: July 4, 1999 The Eagle brand of cars takes its name from the last of AMC’s wholly U.S.-designed vehicles, the AMC Eagle. Some would say the Eagle was the first true SUV, since it incorpor

Headquarters: Shanghai, China Established: November 2014 Founder(s): William Li NIO was founded as NextEV by William Li in November 2014 as an off-shoot of the NIO 333 FE Team, a Formula E team; in later years the team would be involved in name only. Their

Headquarters: Torslanda, Sweden Established: 2017 Founder(s): N/A Polestar was originally a series of sporty performance-tuned models based on Volvo sedans and SUVs. In 2017, Volvo, which is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, spun Polestar off as a separate bran

Headquarters: Turin, Italy Established: 31 March 1949 Founder(s): Carlo Abarth In 1949, Italian-Australian Carlo Abarth founded Abarth, a racing-car manufacturer, in Turin, Italy. In 1952, he began his well-known association with Fiat, building the Abarth

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