Historical Briefs  of the Car Marques


In the Beginning

 

Abarth Scorpion power for baby FIATS
  AC Snakey Three Wheelers 
Alfa Romeo Serpents and Shields
Armstong Siddeley Defunct Brit Limos
Audi "Vorsprung durch Technik" and Latin wordplay
Austin Austin may have a staid image but their cars were often daring
Austin Healey Austin by name hairy chested by nature
ASA Designed as a mini Ferrari, lost the badge and became a lost masterpiece
Berkeley Bizarre but rapid - Brit things
BMW The hidden side of the executive express
Bristol Upper class Brit, with Aircraft build quality
Citroen The Innovator
Daihatsu Quirky Little Japanese cars
Evante Take a Lotus Elan and make it better 
Fiat Small cars form a large advanced company
Ford Cars for everybody
Honda Soichiro Honda engineer extraordinaire
Isuzu Land Rover of the East
Jaguar Above all "STYLE"
Land Rover The 50 year stop gap
Lexus New badge, top car
Mazda Off the wall Japanese car maker
Mercedes The Fore-Fathers
Mitsubishi As in Zero "BANZAI"
Monteverdi Swiss but not cheesy
Morgan Independent Geriatric
Naylor Marina based MG copy - should have been so good.
OPEL Germany's Vauxhall 
Peugeot The Lion goes from strength to strength
Porsche Das wunder wagen
Qvale Italian-American dream
Renault French National Giant
Rochdale Slightly odd, but wonderful semi-kit car, and GRP pioneer
SAAB From Aero to two-stroke and back.
Simca Forgotten Frechie.
Standard The most forgotten of British of cars
Subaru Oddball Japanese car maker with a 4 by 4 fetish to rival Audi.
Suzuki Shame the cars are not as quick as the Bikes!
TATRA Flash Gordon Aerodynamic cars - from the 1930's !
Toyota Japanese giant competes it virtually all sectors.
Triumph Standard's more famous half 
Vauxhall The mythical Griffin
Volkswagen The peoples car.
Volvo The Rolling Strength of the unsexy Swede
Wolseyley The Meteoric rise and slow drawn out death
Zil The car of choice? for the commissars