If You Can't Name These Car Logos, You're Not A Real Man
- by Clayton Leir
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How well do you know your cars? I mean...would you call yourself a fan of cars? Do you rate your manliness by how well you know cars? If not, then you might be disappointed by the results of this quiz, but I figure since you're here you must, therefore, want to see if you're manly enough to name all these care logos.
Just to give you an idea...there are tons of car logos to go through. Are you sure that you're manly enough to take this car logo challenge? Off the top of your head, right now, how many different car brands and/or separate models with their own badges can you name? If you really think you can do it, then you know what you need to do! You need to stop reading this intro and getting sorting through those logos!
If you're still unsure about whether or not you could name that many car logos...then maybe you're just not man enough. Maybe you should just give up and be a wimp...and yes, this is just me trying to egg you on to take the quiz and prove once and for all that you are a real man...or perhaps that you're just not man enough.
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This specific car is the luxury vehicle marque of automaker Honda. The brand was launched in the United States and Canada in March 1986, marketing luxury, performance, and high-performance vehicles. It was introduced to Hong Kong in 1991, Mexico in 2004, China in 2006, Russia in 2014 and Kuwait in 2015, and is also sold in Ukraine. Honda's plan to introduce this car to the Japanese domestic market in 2008 was delayed, due to economic reasons, and later withheld as a result of the 2008 financial crisis.
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This company is a manufacturer of luxury sports cars and grand tourers. It was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. Steered from 1947 by David Brown, it became associated with expensive grand touring cars in the 1950s and 1960s, and with the fictional character James Bond following his use of a DB5 model in the 1964 film Goldfinger. Their sports cars are regarded as a British cultural icon. This company has held a Royal Warrant as purveyor of motorcars to HRH the Prince of Wales since 1982.
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This company was owned by Italian state holding company Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale between 1932 and 1986, when it became a part of the Fiat group. In February 2007, this particular brand became ARA S.p.A., a subsidiary of Fiat Group Automobiles, now Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Italy. The company that became this specific brand was founded as Società Anonima Italiana Darracq (SAID) in 1906 by the French automobile firm of Alexandre Darracq, with Italian investors.They produce some pretty hot cars.
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The joining and eventual separation of this company and Rolls-Royce followed a series of mergers and acquisitions, beginning with the 1931 purchase by Rolls-Royce of this company, then in receivership. In 1971, Rolls-Royce itself was forced into receivership and the UK government nationalized the company—splitting into two companies the aerospace division (Rolls-Royce Plc) and automotive (Rolls-Royce Motors Limited) divisions—the latter retaining this brand's subdivision. Rolls-Royce Motors was subsequently sold to engineering conglomerate, Vickers and in 1998, Vickers sold Rolls-Royce to Volkswagen AG.
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The origins of this company are complex, going back to the early 20th century and the initial enterprises founded by engineer August Horch; and two other manufacturers (DKW and Wanderer), leading to the foundation of Auto Union in 1932. The modern era of the company essentially began in the 1960's when Auto Union was acquired by Volkswagen from Daimler-Benz. After relaunching the brand with the 1965 introduction of the F103 series, Volkswagen merged Auto Union with NSU Motorenwerke in 1969, thus creating the present day form of the company.
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The death of the company's founder in 1947 proved to be the end for the marque, and the death of his son Jean in 1939 ensured there was not a successor to lead the factory. No more than about 8,000 cars were made. The company struggled financially, and released one last model in the 1950s, before eventually being purchased for its airplane parts business in the 1960s. In the 1990s, an Italian entrepreneur revived it as a builder of limited production exclusive sports cars. Today, the name is owned by German automobile manufacturing group Volkswagen.
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This car was originally built for a racing program, which was very successful in the 1960s and 1970s. As time passed, the brand began to supplement the company's vehicles portfolio with specially modified higher trim models, for which they are now most known by the general public. These badged cars traditionally include modified engines, transmissions, suspensions, interior trims, aerodynamics, and exterior modifications to set them apart from their counterparts. All M models are tested and tuned at a private facility at the Nürburgring racing circuit in Germany.
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For much of its existence in the North American market, this company has been marketed as a premium automobile brand, selling luxury vehicles positioned above GM's mainstream brands, while below the flagship luxury Cadillac division. These branded vehicles are also known for reliability, ranking high in Consumer Reports' brand reliability ratings. In 2015, the brand sold 1,231,941 vehicles, a record for the brand. The main market is in China, where 80% of these branded automobiles are sold. They are also sold in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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By the time General Motors purchased the company in 1909, this brand had already established itself as one of America's premier luxury carmakers. The complete interchangeability of its precision parts had allowed it to lay the foundation for the modern mass production of automobiles. It was at the forefront of technological advances, introducing full electrical systems, the clashless manual transmission and the steel roof. The brand developed three engines, with its V8 setting the standard for the American automotive industry.
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This company struggled through the 1970s to adapt to changing markets, increased U.S. import competition, and safety and environmental regulation. The company began an engineering partnership with Mitsubishi Motors, and began selling Mitsubishi vehicles branded as Dodge and Plymouth in North America. By the late 1970s, the company was on the verge of bankruptcy. It was saved by $1.5 billion in loan guarantees from the US government. New CEO Lee Iacocca was credited with returning the company to profitability in the 1980s. In 1985, Diamond-Star Motors was created, further expanding the relationship with Mitsubishi.
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This is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM). A man named Louis and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant started the company on November 3, 1911. Durant used the company to acquire a controlling stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2, 1918 and propelled himself back to the GM presidency. After Durant's second ousting in 1919, Alfred Sloan, with his maxim "a car for every purse and purpose," would pick the brand to become the volume leader in the General Motors family.
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In 1954 this company had produced the world's first hydropneumatic self-levelling suspension system. Then, in 1955, the revolutionary DS, the first mass production car with modern disc brakes and, in 1967, this company introduced in several of their models swivelling headlights that allowed for greater visibility on winding roads; these automobiles have received various international and national level awards, including three European Car of the Year awards. With a successful history in motorsport, it is the only automobile manufacturer to have won three different official championships from the International Automobile Federation.
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Founded as a brothers machine shop by brothers Horace Elgin and John Francis in the early 1900s, this company was originally a supplier of parts and assemblies for Detroit-based automakers and began building complete automobiles under the brothers' brand in 1914, predating the founding of Chrysler Corporation. The factory was located in Hamtramck, Michigan and was called the Main factory from 1910 until its closing in January 1980. The brothers both died in 1920, and the company was sold by their families to Dillon, Read & Co. in 1925 before being sold to Chrysler in 1928.
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During its more than century-long history this company remained the largest automobile manufacturer in Europe and the third in the world after General Motors and Ford for over twenty years, until the car industry crisis in the late 1980s. The company has also manufactured railway engines, military vehicles, farm tractors, aircraft, and weapons such as the Revelli Modello 1914. The company has received many international awards for its vehicles, including nine European Car of the Year awards, the most of any other manufacturer, and it ranked many times as the lowest level of CO2 emissions by vehicles sold in Europe.
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In 2014, this company was rated the world's most powerful brand by Brand Finance. In May 2012 the 1962 250 GTO became the most expensive car in history, selling in a private transaction for US$38.1 million to American communications magnate Craig McCaw. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it is the most successful racing team, holding the most constructors championships and having produced the highest number of winning drivers. The company road cars are generally seen as a symbol of speed, luxury and wealth.
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The first deliveries of this car took place in the U.S. in late July 2011, and deliveries to retail customers began in November 2011. Pricing in the U.S. started at US$102,000 for the base model (EcoStandard), US$110,000 for the intermediate EcoSport model and US$116,000 for the top model (the "Animal Free" EcoChic). Around 1,800 units were delivered in North America and Europe through December 2012. The U.S. was the leading market, with about 1,600 of the cars sold there. Canadians don't like it I guess.
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This specific car is an American automobile built by a popular automaker from the 1967 to the 2002 model years. Designed as a pony car to compete with the Ford Mustang, it was introduced 23 February 1967, the same model year as GM's Chevrolet division platform-sharing Camaro. This also coincided with the release of the 1967 Mercury Cougar, Ford's upscale, platform-sharing version of the Mustang, The name was also previously used by GM for the General Motors car of the same name 1950s and early-1960s concept cars.
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This manufacturer has owned the Swedish passenger car maker Volvo Cars since 2010, when it acquired the company from Ford. It completed the acquisition of British taxi maker The London Electric Vehicle Company in 2013. In June 2017, the company also acquired 49.9% equity in Malaysian carmaker PROTON Holdings as well as a 51% majority stake in British sports carmaker Lotus Cars. The deal is seen as an important step for the Chinese carmaker in their quest to make inroads into the lucrative ASEAN region.
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This company introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing sequences typified by moving assembly lines. The company's former UK subsidiaries Jaguar and Land Rover, acquired in 1989 and 2000 respectively, were sold to Tata Motors in March 2008. The company owned the Swedish automaker Volvo from 1999 to 2010. In 2011, it discontinued the Mercury brand, under which it had marketed entry-level luxury cars in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East since 1938.
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Following the 1997 East Asian financial crisis and owner Chung's death, this company underwent a major restructuring and break-up, which reduced the group's business to encompass only container shipping services, the manufacturing of lifts, and tourism. Today, most companies bearing the name are not legally connected to the company group. They include Motor Group, Department Store Group, Heavy Industries Group and Development Company. However, most of the former subsidiaries of the conglomerate continue to be run by relatives of Chung.
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This company entered the automotive business in 1902 with electric vehicles (if you could believe they existed back then) and in 1904 with gasoline vehicles, all sold under their brand name. Until 1911, its automotive division operated in partnership with the Garford Company of Elyria, Ohio, and after 1909 with the E-M-F Company. The first gasoline automobiles to be fully manufactured by the company were marketed in August 1912. Over the next 50 years, the company established a reputation for quality and reliability...before they went under.
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After struggling to avoid insolvency throughout 2011, this company petitioned for bankruptcy following the failure of a Chinese consortium to complete a purchase of the company; the purchase had been blocked by the former owner GM, which opposed the transfer of technology and production rights to a Chinese company. On 13 June 2012, it was announced that a newly formed company called National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) had bought the company's bankrupt estate. According to the company, the first NEVS 9-3 drove off its pre-production line on 19 September 2013.
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This car corporation was founded in 1899 by Frenchmen Louis and his brothers Marcel and Fernand. Louis was a bright, aspiring young engineer who had already designed and built several prototypes before teaming up with his brothers, who had honed their business skills working for their father's textile firm. While Louis handled design and production, Marcel and Fernand managed the business. The first company car, the Voiturette 1CV, was sold to a friend of Louis' father after giving him a test ride on 24 December 1898.
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This company is a now-defunct car brand that was owned, made, and sold by General Motors. Introduced as a companion make for GM's more expensive line of Oakland automobiles, this company overtook Oakland in popularity and supplanted its parent brand entirely by 1933. Sold in the United States, Canada, and Mexico by GM, the brand was advertised as the performance division of General Motors from the 1960s onward. Amid late 2000s financial problems and restructuring efforts, GM announced in 2008 it would follow the same path with the brand as it had with Oldsmobile in 2004 and discontinued manufacturing and marketing vehicles under that brand by the end of 2010.
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The family business that preceded the current company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Émile applied for the lion trademark. Armand built the company's first car, an unreliable steam tricycle, in collaboration with Léon Serpollet in 1889; this was followed in 1890 by an internal combustion car with a Panhard-Daimler engine. Due to family discord, Armand founded the Société des Automobiles, in 1896. The company and family are originally from Sochaux, France. The company retains a large manufacturing plant and museum there.
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A man by the name of Ferdinand founded the company in 1931, with main offices at Kronenstraße 24 in the centre of Stuttgart. Initially, the company offered motor vehicle development work and consulting, but did not build any cars under its own name. One of the first assignments the new company received was from the German government to design a car for the people, that is a "Volkswagen". This resulted in the Volkswagen Beetle, one of the most successful car designs of all time. The 64 under this brand was developed in 1939 using many components from the Beetle.
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This particular car was a brand of American automobiles produced for most of its existence by General Motors. This Motor Vehicle Co. was founded by Ransom E. in 1897. It produced over 35 million vehicles, including at least 14 million built at its Lansing, Michigan factory. At the time of its closure in 2004, this brand was the oldest surviving American automobile marque, and one of the oldest in the world, after Daimler, Peugeot and Tatra. A great piece of history.
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This brand is an American car manufactured in the States. It was originally based on the platform of the second generation North American Falcon, a compact car. The original 1962 I two-seater concept car had evolved into the 1963 II four-seater concept car which the company used to pretest how the public would take interest in the first production car. The 1963 II concept car was designed with a variation of the production model's front and rear ends with a roof that was 2.7 inches shorter.
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This company is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. In 2011, the company was the sixth biggest Japanese automaker and the sixteenth biggest worldwide by production. From October 2016 onwards, the brand is one-third (34%) owned by Nissan, and thus a part of the Renault–Nissan Alliance. Besides being part of the Renault–Nissan Alliance, it is also a part of keiretsu, formerly the biggest industrial group in Japan, through the corporation's majority 66% stake in the company, and the company was originally formed in 1970 from the automotive division of Heavy Industries.
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This was a brand of the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG). DMG began to develop in 1900, after the death of its co-founder, Gottlieb Daimler. Although the name was not lodged as a trade name until 23 June 1902 and not registered legally until 26 September, the brand name eventually would be applied to an automobile model built by Wilhelm Maybach to specifications by Emil Jellinek that was delivered to him on 22 December 1900. By Jellinek's contract, the new model contained a newly designed engine designated by this brand name.
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This luxury company is a British multinational public limited company incorporated in February 2011 that owns this popular brand; a business established in 1904 which today designs, manufactures and distributes power systems for aviation and other industries. This company is the world’s second-largest maker of aircraft engines and has major businesses in the marine propulsion and energy sectors. All of its shares are tradeable on the London Stock Exchange and other markets. The company was the world's 16th-largest defence contractor in 2011 and 2012 when measured by defence revenues.
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This company began as the Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd, founded in Hiroshima, Japan, 30 January 1920. Toyo Cork Kogyo renamed itself to Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. in 1927. In the late 1920s the company had to be saved from bankruptcy by Hiroshima Saving Bank and other business leaders in Hiroshima. In 1931 Toyo Kogyo moved from manufacturing machine tools to vehicles with the introduction of the Go autorickshaw. Toyo Kogyo produced weapons for the Japanese military throughout the Second World War, most notably the series 30 through 35 Type 99 rifle. The company formally adopted the current brand name in 1984.
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This company is an Italian luxury vehicle manufacturer established on 1 December 1914, in Bologna. The tagline is "Luxury, sports and style cast in exclusive cars", and the brand's mission statement is to "Build ultra-luxury performance automobiles with timeless Italian style, accommodating bespoke interiors, and effortless, signature sounding power". The company's headquarters are now in Modena, and its emblem is a trident. It has been owned by the Italian-American car giant Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and FCA's Italian predecessor Fiat S.p.A. since 1993.
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This Motor Company is a division of the Ford Motor Company that markets luxury vehicles under this brand. Founded in 1917 by Henry M. Leland, the brand became a subsidiary of Ford in 1922. In 2012, with the discontinuation of the Mercury line, the company was rebranded to help differentiate its cars from the Fords on which they are based. The product line currently includes sedans, crossovers, sport utility vehicles, and versions for limousine/livery use. They are marketed primarily in North America.
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This brand is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese car maker Toyota. The marque is marketed in more than 70 countries and territories worldwide and has become Japan's largest-selling make of premium cars. It has ranked among the 10 largest Japanese global brands in market value. The company is headquartered in Nagoya, Japan. Operational centers are located in Brussels, Belgium and the U.S. in Plano, Texas. The brand originated from a corporate project to develop a new premium sedan, code-named F1, which began in 1983 and culminated in the launch of the LS in 1989.
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This company was founded in 1994 in Sweden by a man of the same name, with the intention of producing a "world-class" supercar. Many years of development and prototyping led to the company's first street-legal production car delivery in 2002. In 2006 the company began production of the CCX, which uses an engine created in-house especially for that vehicle. The CCX is street-legal in most countries, including the United States. In March 2009 the CCXR was listed by Forbes as one of "the world's most beautiful cars".
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This car is a sports car marketed in 2+2 coupe (1955–1974) and convertible (1957–1974) body styles by Volkswagen. Internally designated the Typ 14, the car combined the chassis and mechanicals of the Type 1 (Beetle) with styling by Luigi Segre of the Italian carrozzeria and hand-built bodywork by a German coach-builder. From 1962-1969, Volkswagen marketed the Typ 34, with angular bodywork and based on the Type 3 platform and mechanicals. More than 445,000 Karmann Ghias were produced in Germany over the car's production life, not including the Type 34 variant.
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This car's business was founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922, originally making motorcycle sidecars before developing bodies for passenger cars. Under the ownership of S. S. Cars Limited the business extended to complete cars made in association with Standard Motor Co, many bearing this brand as a model name. The company's name was changed from S. S. Cars to the current name in 1945. A merger with the British Motor Corporation followed in 1966, the resulting enlarged company now being renamed as British Motor Holdings (BMH).
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In 2012, this company moved its global headquarters from the Nissan corporate building in Yokohama and incorporated in Hong Kong under this brand name, with Carlos Ghosn intending for the brand to have a greater focus on the burgeoning luxury market in mainland China as it forecast the country to become the largest luxury car market. Nissan appointed Roland Krüger, former head of BMW's Asian division, as president of the brand in September 2014. With its QX60 crossover (formerly known as JX35) the brand began to produce vehicles outside Japan.
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This company has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year. The company became the second-largest Japanese automobile manufacturer in 2001. The company was the eighth largest automobile manufacturer in the world behind Toyota, Volkswagen Group, Hyundai Motor Group, General Motors, Ford, Nissan, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in 2015. The company was the first Japanese automobile manufacturer to release a dedicated luxury brand, Acura, in 1986.
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These cars are known for their use of a boxer engine layout in most vehicles above 1500 cc. Most models have used the Symmetrical All Wheel Drive drive-train layout since 1972. The flat/boxer engine and all-wheel-drive became standard equipment for mid-size and smaller cars in most international markets by 1996, and is now standard in most North American market vehicles of this brand. The lone exception is the BRZ, introduced in 2012, which uses the boxer engine but instead uses a rear-wheel-drive structure. This brand also offers turbocharged versions of their passenger cars, such as the Impreza WRX and the Legacy 2.5GT. The 2.0XT trim of the Forester also includes a turbocharged engine.
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This brand is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Minami-ku, Hamamatsu, that manufactures automobiles, four-wheel drive vehicles, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines. In 2014, the company was the ninth biggest automaker by production worldwide. The company has over 45,000 employees and has 35 production facilities in 23 countries, and 133 distributors in 192 countries. The worldwide sales volume of automobiles is the world's tenth largest, while domestic sales volume is the third largest in the country.
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The company's Model S was the world's best-selling plug-in electric car in 2015 and 2016. Global sales of the Model S reached the 200,000 unit milestone during the fourth quarter of 2017. In September 2015, the company released its Model X, a crossover SUV. The Model 3 was released in July 2017. Production passed 300,000 vehicles in February 2018. The company operates multiple production and assembly plants, notably Gigafactory 1 near Reno, Nevada and its main vehicle manufacturing facility in Fremont, California. The Gigafactory primarily produces batteries and battery packs for the brand vehicles and energy storage products.
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This company is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Aichi, Japan. In 2017, The company's corporate structure consisted of 364,445 employees worldwide and, as of October 2016, was the fifth-largest company in the world by revenue. As of 2016, the brand is the world's largest automotive manufacturer. The company was the world's first automobile manufacturer to produce more than 10 million vehicles per year which it has done since 2012, when it also reported the production of its 200-millionth vehicle.
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This company was originally established in 1937 by the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront) in Berlin. In the early 1930s, the German auto industry was still largely composed of luxury models, and the average German could rarely afford anything more than a motorcycle. As a result, only one German out of 50 owned a car. Seeking a potential new market, some car makers began independent "people's car" projects – the Mercedes 170H, Adler AutoBahn, Steyr 55, and Hanomag 1.3L, among others.