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The DAF company was founded in 1932, when a machine construction company led by Huub and Wim van Doorne, changed its name to Van Doorne's Aanhangwagen Fabriek (Van Doorne's Trailer Factory), abbreviated DAF |
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GM Daewoo Auto & Technology (GM Daewoo or GMDAT) was first established as National Motor in 1937 in Bupyeong-gu, Incheon, South Korea. After changing its name to Saenara Motor in 1962, Saenara Motor was bought by Shinjin Industrial in 1965, which changed its name to Shinjin Motor after establishing collaborations with Toyota... [ |
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Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. is a Japanese manufacturer of cars, especially compact/small cars. These cars are also known as kei jidosha in Japan. Daihatsu researches hybrid vehicles and two stroke diesel engines.collaborations with Toyota.] |
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Daimler has been a British marque of motor car since 1896. It is now a division of Jaguar Cars, which is a subsidiary of the Premier Automotive Group. As of 2006, its production is limited to only one model, the Daimler Super Eight... |
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Datsun is a former brand used by what is now Nissan, in order to sell their automobiles in North America and Australia] |
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De Dion-Bouton was a successful French automobile manufacturer at the beginning of the 20th century. The company was founded by Albert de Dion and Georges Bouton, who began building steam-powered automobiles in 1882. These vehicles used an innovative de Dion tube semi-independent suspension rear axle, which was later used by other manufacturers... [more on Wikipedia] |
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Deho was a 'tuner' for Simca racing cars:
The SIMCA-Deho sports car was shown in 1939. At the end of 1939, an assessment was made of the first five business years, and was primarily positive. Indeed, SIMCA, had produced almost 70,000 cars and, thanks to the advised management of Pigozzi, its outlook was also good! Outside of France, the brand was quite successful in competition, particularly the Amédée Gordini modified 508 with a 28hp Topolino motor and the 508 C, with aerodynamic 2 seat body amd 28hp Topolino motor, which won several races, the Bol d'Or, la Course de Reims for small sports cars, the Paris-Nice rallye and the 1939 Course du Mans. |
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DELAGE |
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The Delage Automobile company was established in 1905 in Levallois, a northwesterly suburb of Paris, France. It was founded by Louis Delâge (1874-1947), an ambitious young engineer who had been working for the Peugeot car company. Initially, the company was only an assembly plant, acquiring engines and drive trains from other manufacturers to use with their own body designs purchased from others. By 1908, success saw the operation in new production facilities and competing in Grand Prix motor racing. A year later, they were making their own engines and fabricating advanced body designs. Delage cars began winning important races until the onset of World War I in 1914 when the new factory in nearby Courbevoie was converted to military production... [more on Wikipedia] |
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The Delahaye automobile manufacturing company was started by Emile Delahaye in 1894, in Tours, France. His first cars were belt driven, with single or twin cylinder engines. In 1900, Delahaye left the company for unknown reasons. In 1901, the Société des Automobiles Delahaye constructed a factory in Paris, where they continued to manufacture automobiles and trucks... [more on Wikipedia] |
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DE LOREAN
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The De Lorean Motor Company (DMC) was a short-lived automobile manufacturing company formed by automobile industry executive John De Lorean in 1975. It is remembered for the one distinctive model it produced – the stainless steel De Lorean DMC-12 sports car featuring gull-wing doors – and for its brief and turbulent history, ending in receivership and bankruptcy in 1982. Near the end, in a desperate attempt to raise the funds his company needed to survive, John De Lorean was filmed appearing to accept money to take part in drug trafficking, but was subsequently acquitted, on the basis of entrapment, of charges brought against him... [more on Wikipedia] |
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The DeSoto (sometimes De Soto) was a brand of automobile based in the United States, marketed by the Chrysler Corporation from 1928 to 1961] |
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DE TOMASO |
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De Tomaso Modena SpA is an Italian car-manufacturing company. It was founded by the Argentinian-born Alejandro de Tomaso (1928–2003) in Modena in 1959. The company went into liquidation in 2004; despite this, new cars were still being made by De Tomaso as of 2005. Originally, De Tomaso produced various prototypes and racing cars, including a Formula 1 car for Frank Williams's team in 1970] |
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DIATTO |
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Als Gründungsjahr ist 1835 protokolliert. Harald Linz aus München hat für sein demnächst erscheinendes automobiles Markenlexikon ausgiebig recherchiert: Der italienische Konstrukteur Guglielmo Diatto beschäftigte sich damals mit der Konstruktion von Eisenmaterial. Im Jahre 1835 kam es zum Bau von zwei- und vierrädrigen Kutschen – erstmals mit dem Markennamen Diatto, gefertigt in Turin. Giovanni Diatto begann im Jahre 1867 mit industriellen Eisenkonstruktionen. Seine Abnehmer domizilierten in aller Welt, er profilierte sich als Zulieferer von Eisenbahnen.
Deutlich später, nämlich am 12. April 1905, kam es zu einer geschäftlichen Vereinbarung zwischen der Firma „Ing. Vittorio & Pietro Diatto - Fonderia Officine Meccaniche“ und der Firma „Adolphe Clément-Bayard“, die ihren Sitz in Levallois-Perret bei Paris a.d. Seine hatte. Gegenstand des Vertrages: die Lizenz zum Bau der französische „Clément-Bayard“-Automobile. Diese Fahrzeuge trugen den Markennamen „Diatto“, bzw. „Diatto-Clément“. Wenig später erreichte ein Diatto den achten Platz bei der Targa Florio in Sizilien. 1919 stellte man Automobile unter Lizenz von Bugatti her. Es folgte die Konstruktion weiterer Rennwagen, die auch Erfolge einfuhren. 1922 entstand dann das berühmte Modell Diatto 20. Die Marke gewann an Bekanntheit und auch Alfieri Maserati arbeitete für Diatto. Durch die enge Zusammenarbeit mit Ettore Bugatti, den Brüdern Maserati und Tazio Nuvolari, begegnete man schließlich auch Zagato.
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The BMW Dixi was the first car made by BMW. Dixi had been making cars since 1904 but in the difficult times of the 1920's was finding it hard to sell its 6/24 and 9/40 models so looked to enter the small car market and in 1927 agreed a licence with the Austin Motor Company to build the Austin 7. A production level of 2000 cars a year was agreed with Austin being paid a royalty on each one made] |
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DKW
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Dampf-Kraft Wagen (German: steam-powered vehicle) or DKW is an historic car and motorcycle brand. In 1916, the Danish engineer Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen founded a factory in Saxony, Germany, to produce steam fittings. In the same year, he attempted to produce a steam-driven car, called the DKW. Although unsuccessful, he made a two-stroke toy engine in 1919, called 'Des Knaben Wunsch' - "the boy's wish". He also put slightly modified version of this engine into a motorcycle and called this 'Das Kleine Wunder' - "the small wonder". This was the real beginning of the DKW brand: by the 1930s, DKW was the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer. In 1932, DKW merged with Audi, Horch and Wanderer to form the Auto Union, and all brands continued until World War II. After the war, Auto Union changed ownership a couple of times, first passed into the hands of Daimler-Benz in 1957, and was finally purchased by the Volkswagen Group in 1964.] |
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DODGE |
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Dodge is a brand name of automobiles and light to heavy-duty trucks. From 1914 to 1927, the company was named the Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicle Company. The Chrysler Corporation acquired the Dodge company in 1928. In 1998, Dodge along with all other Chrysler subsidaries, merged with Daimler-Benz] |
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Donkervoort Automobielen BV is a producer of sports cars based in Lelystad in The Netherlands. This car brand was founded in 1978 by Joop Donkervoort. In 1996, Donkervoort's Ford Zetec engines were replaced by Audi engines. The car is based on the Lotus Seven. One of the differences is a redesigned nose cone |
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Swallow Doretti made a 2 seater sports car based on the Triumph TR2 at a factory in Walsall, England between 1954 and 1955. The company name came from Swallow Sidecar Company which was sold in 1945 by Jaguar to the Tube Investments Group. The car had a tubular steel chassis with a body made of a steel inner skin and aluminium outer. Most cars were supplied with overdrive and the car was capable of 100mph. 276 cars were made including a single fixed head coupe version. Production stopped in 1955 when the parent company changed policy possibly because of a conflict of interest with the parent compnay supplying parts to potential rivals |
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Even before the turn of the century, the Dürkopp factory in Bielefeld (founded 1867 by Nikolaus Dürkopp), had produced motorcycles, bicycles, motor cars and lorries. Dürkopp manufactured different motorcycles with one and two cylinder engines and even a four cylinder series engine appeared in their catalogue. These engines were solely their own construction. Because of a foray into motor car production, motorcycle manufacture was temporary stopped between 1912 and 1927. Thereafter, Dürkopp used the engines from other manufactures to fit into their motorcycles, e.g. the 98 cc Sachs engine for the M10 model. |
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Duesenberg was a US-based luxury automobile company active from the 1910s until 1937. In 1913 the Duesenberg Brothers, Fred and August, founded Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company, Inc. in Des Moines, Iowa, at 8th and Grand Ave, to build sports cars. Born in 1876 and 1879 in Germany, the two brothers were self-taught engineers and built many experimental cars. Duesenberg cars were considered some of the very best cars built at the time, and were built entirely by hand. In 1914 Eddie Rickenbacker drove a "Duesy" to finish in 10th place at the Indianapolis 500 and a Duesenberg car won the race in 1924, 1925, and 1927. 1923 saw the only use of the Duesenberg as the pace car at the Indianapolis 500. In 1921, Jimmy Murphy became the first American to win the French Grand Prix when he piloted a Duesenberg to victory at the Le Mans racetrack...] |
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