Only A Real American Can Name These Cars!
- by Clayton Leir
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- in Lifestyle
Are you American? Don't worry, if you're not you can still take this quiz, of course, but only a real, true, patriotic American will be able to name all of these cars. Don't just expect to see a Mustang and a Camaro and a GTO. We're not going to cheapen out that way. Oh, no. We've got some pretty awesome cars from some lesser-known manufacturers, as well as the mix of pretty generic cars.
What's interesting is that I think it will be the generic cars that will be harder for people to actually name. You might see them all over, but so many of them look the exact damn same that I won't be shocked at all if you can't figure out the difference between the Chevy Cruze, Dodge Caliber, and the Ford Focus. But hey, if you can sort out the difference between those basic American cars, and then can also pick out some old school, classic American cars...then you must be a real American.
So, what are you waiting for? Start sifting through these American-made cars. There are many to go through to prove to us that you are, indeed, a real American! Make your country proud!
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This specific classic car is a full-size automobile that was the first model produced by its particular manufacturer and was produced from the 1939 through the 1951 model years. It was the only model offered by the manufacturer until the marque started producing multiple series in the 1952 model year, at which point it was dropped as a model designation. This is one sleek-looking car. If only we could bring back this classic look to make cars today much more attractive.
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This particular car is a mid-size car manufactured and marketed by a certain company from 1964 to 1983 and since 1997. This car began as a trim-level version of the Chevelle, becoming its own model line in 1978. Originally a rear-wheel-drive intermediate, the manufacturer revived the model nameplate as a front-wheel-drive car in 1997. Named after a coastal community in an American state, this pretty cool car was marketed primarily in North America, with the eighth generation introduced globally. The new versions aren't as cool though.
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This almost Ferrari-looking-front-end car was first introduced at SEMA in 2005 is built on the Chevrolet Corvette Roadster platform and powered by a 6.0 litre Chevrolet LS2 V8 developing 400 horsepower, or 650 horsepower if equipped with the optional Magnuson supercharger and other performance upgrades. The carbon fiber body of the car has been styled to incorporate some of the defining features of supercars from the 1960s, or as the company put it, the 'Golden Age of Sports Cars'. The custom interior of the is upholstered in top grade leather and/or suede.
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This particular car is a compact car that has been made by a certain division of a big car company since 2008. The nameplate has been used previously in Japan, for a version of a subcompact hatchback car produced under a joint venture with Suzuki from 2001 to 2007, and was based on the Suzuki Ignis. Since 2009, the nameplate of this car has designated a globally developed, designed, and manufactured four-door compact sedan—complemented by a five-door hatchback body variant from 2011, and a station wagon in 2012.
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Although the manufacturer considered ending production because of serious financial problems with this car, on September 14, 2010, chief executive Sergio Marchionne announced and showed a new model of the car for 2012. In 2014, it was named number 10 on the "Most American Cars" list, meaning 75% or more of its parts are manufactured in the U.S. This car was initially conceived in late 1988 at Advanced Design Studios. In 2000 the company had Lamborghini make an engine two liters bigger than the Diablo’s engine when the company owned Lamborghini. It was also designed by the man who designed the Diablo. The original car was also designed by Lamborghini.
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This particular sports car takes fast and furious to another level. This race-ready pony car is fitted with a 5.2-liter V-8 that makes 526 hp and bloodcurdling exhaust sounds; a six-speed manual is the sole transmission. Still not satisfied? There’s also the track-tuned version, which accelerates quicker and corners better—thanks in part to its unique carbon-fibre wheels. Regardless of the version of the car you choose, both pose a formidable opponent to pretty well all of its competitors in their league.
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The world distance record of 311mi for a production electric car on a single charge was set by a Roadster on October 27, 2009, during the Global Green Challenge in outback Australia, in which it averaged a speed of 25 mph. In March 2010, one of these cars became the first electric vehicle to win the Monte Carlo Alternative Energy Rally and the first to win any Federation Internationale de l'Automobile-sanctioned championship when a Roadster driven by former Formula One driver Érik Comas beat 96 competitors for range, efficiency and performance in the three-day, nearly 620mi challenge.
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This particular car was a full-size automobile produced between 1952 to 1959 by a certain division of a pretty massive car corporation. Introduced as the brand's premium line of vehicles in 1953 and 1954, this specific model also occupied the least expensive position in the model lineup during 1955 and 1956 model years before it was reclassified as a mid-range vehicle offered by the car company between 1957 and 1959. This is a piece of classic Americana. Can you name it?
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This old-school car is a mid-size car produced between 1966 and 1997. It was positioned as a premium offering at the top of its particular range. It began as a trim package, developed its own roofline, and rose during the mid-1970s to become not only the most popular of the company but the highest selling model in its class. It was produced as a rear-wheel drive two-door hardtop, sedan, and station wagon into the 1980s, and a convertible through 1972. In 1988 the company sought to capitalize on the brand equity of the marque by replacing it with a downsized front-wheel drive model based on the GM10 platform W-platform.
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This particular car is a mid-size (full-size in 1st generation) crossover SUV first launched in 2008. This car, the GMC Acadia, and Chevrolet Traverse all share the GM Lambda platform. This particular car was previewed at the 2006 North American International Auto Show, officially as a concept car, making it the first Lambda vehicle to be displayed. The car is partially based on the Centieme concept shown at the 2003 Detroit Auto Show. As of February 2014, this car was the top-ranked Affordable Midsize SUV in U.S. News & World Report's rankings.
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This car was Chevrolet's most expensive passenger model through 1965 and had become the best-selling automobile in the United States. For its debut in 1958, it was distinguished from other models by its symmetrical triple taillights. The Caprice was introduced as a top-line Sport Sedan for model year 1965, later becoming a separate series positioned above this car in 1966, which, in turn, remained above the Bel Air and the Biscayne. This car continued as Chevrolet's most popular full-size model through the mid-1980's.
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For 2015, this car was redesigned with a new grille, new headlights, LED combination taillights, increased interior room, and a rear-view camera. This generation of the car comes with a standard EcoBoost engine, the all-new 2.0L, which has a new twin-scroll turbo to boost low-end torque figures. Unlike the previous 2.0L EcoBoost, the 2015 generation has a towing capacity of 3500 pounds and is available with all-wheel drive. Mid-spec engine is a 3.5L V6, with slightly reduced power output. The highest engine in the range, powering Sport models, is the new 2.7L twin-turbo EcoBoost V6.
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This car company sets itself apart from other manufacturers and service providers, by delivering "state-of-the-art" product design, in lieu with product manufacturing services, all under one roof! Furthermore, having been in business since 2007, this company has accumulated a wealth of "know-how" in the automotive, internal combustion engine, furniture and agricultural industries. The United States Patent Office and those of Germany, India, Japan, China, etc. have all awarded this very unique car company patents in excess of 35 globally. I don't know why though...
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The idea for this automobile was initially drawn on a napkin at a private dinner between Between the owner of the company and a shareholder. The owner drew what was to become this car on a napkin, handed it to he shareholder and told him that not only they were going to build a neo-classic automobile, but that the shareholder would be responsible for all functions of the operation and ongoing supervision of of the company. The shareholder eventually became the company's President. At its peak in the 1980s, the company employed 175 people and generated $25 million in annual revenue.
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This car represented the next-to-highest trim level available within the specific brand. It rode on a 124 in wheelbase. In addition to high-grade interior appointments, the car also received additional stainless steel trim and deluxe wheel covers. Available either as a two-door or four-door hardtop, this car, like the premium Citation, shared its roof lines with Mercury models, as well as internal body components. Body parts between this car and Citation models could not be shared with either the Ranger or Pacer, which were built on the shorter, narrower frames. A deep-dished safety steering wheel was standard.
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These cars were the only four-wheel-drive passenger cars produced in the U.S. at their time. They were affordable cars offering a comfortable ride and handling on pavement together with superior traction in light off road use through the company's innovative engineering and packaging. Although the definition is not precise, this car is today known as one of the first crossover vehicles. All models featured "passenger-car comfort, plus 4wd security for all-weather security. Fuel-thirsty vehicles built for rugged off-road were on the market. Comparable sedans and compact station wagons models were not available from other manufacturers, especially at this car's price point.
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This car is a front engine, front-wheel drive layout, four-door, five passenger, entry-level luxury compact car manufactured by General Motors for a particular brand at the Orion Assembly plant in Orion Township, Michigan and in China by GM's Joint Venture with SAIC Motor, SAIC-GM (also called Shanghai GM). This car debuted at the North American International Auto Show on January 10, 2011, during a preview of the company's then upcoming 2012 model. It is the first compact marketed by the company in the United States since the 1998 Skylark. Verano is Spanish for summer.
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This car is a rear-wheel-drive, front-engine, full-sized luxury car manufactured and marketed as a four door sedan and station wagon its first generation and solely as a four-door sedan in its second and current generation. This car debuted as a concept at the 2003 New York Auto Show with styling by Ralph Gilles and production starting in January 2004 for the 2005 model year. The second generation was marketed under another name in the United Kingdom and Ireland and as the Lancia Thema in the remainder of Europe.
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This one is a compact car manufactured by a certain company since 1998. Designed under Alex Trotman's 2000 plan, which aimed to globalize model development and sell one compact vehicle worldwide, this car was primarily designed by Europe's German and British teams of this American company. The car was released in July 1998 in Europe, succeeding its predecessor, and replaced the Mazda Familia-derived Laser in Asia and Oceania along with the Laser-based North American competition. Wayne Stamping & Assembly started producing the car for North America with sales beginning in 1999.
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This particular car is a muscle car produced by an old-school company between the 1964 and 1980 model years. Introduced as an option package for US-sold F-85 and Cutlass models, it became a model in its own right from 1968 to 1971, spawned the Hurst in 1968, then reverted to an option through the mid-1970s. The name was revived in the 1980s on the rear-wheel drive Supreme and early 1990s as an option package for the new front-wheel drive Calais.
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This car is an automobile which was manufactured by a certain division of the Chrysler Corporation in the United States from 1960 to 1976. It was created to give the company an entry in the compact car market emerging in the late 1950s. It was also built and marketed, without the brand name, worldwide in countries including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden and Switzerland, as well as other countries in South America and Western Europe. It became well known for its excellent durability and reliability.
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This car is an upscale mid-sized automobile that was first introduced by its company for the 1973 model year. North American production ended in 2004 and began again in 2011. For the 2011 model year, this company re-introduced the car to the North American market, positioned as an upscale sports sedan. Production and sales in China have continued since 1999. For certain model years between 1973 and 2004, this car shared bodies and powertrains with the similar Century. It carries the Vauxhall logo in the U.K.
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This classic car was originally a trim level and later a separate model produced by Cadillac. The first car to bear the name was the 1949 Coupe, a pillarless two-door hardtop body style with a prestige trim level above that of the Series 62 luxury coupe. The last model to be formally known as this car was the 2005 model version, a full-size sedan, the largest car in the Cadillac model range at the time. The next year, the car was officially renamed DTS.
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This car is a front-wheel drive, mid-sized sedan that was built by Dodge. This Dodge made its North American debut in 1994 as a two-door coupe, which was produced until 2000. It was re-introduced to the market as a four-door sports sedan starting in 2008. The 2014 model year marked the last production for this model, as models for both the Dodge and Chrysler brands were consolidated into the single 2015 Chrysler 200 model, while Dodge received the compact Dart based on the same platform.
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Following its launch, this particular car would become the progenitor of an entirely new automotive segment, the personal luxury car. Following World War II, the segment evolved into coupes and convertibles larger than sports cars and grand touring cars with an emphasis on luxury and style over handling. From 1956 to 1957, this car's nameplate also saw use in the short-lived Division, marketing the Mark II as the flagship of FMC from 1956 and 1957; the brand revived the Mark series in 1969 as a successor.
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This classy car is a two-door car that was manufactured by a certain company from the 1964 to 1974 model years. The first-generation of this car was a hardtop fastback A-body based on the Valiant. It featured a distinctive wraparound back glass and was marketed from 1964 to 1966. The second-generation 1967 to 1969 model of this car, though still Valiant-based, was heavily redesigned. Body designs were now available in fastback, hardtop coupe, and convertible versions. Plenty to play with.
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This car is a personal luxury car produced by a well-known company from 1963 to 1999. The company's first entry into that prestige niche, this car was highly praised by automotive journalists upon its high-profile debut. While early models stayed close to the original form, eight subsequent generations varied substantially over the car's thirty-year lifespan. In all, 1,127,261 were produced. The specific name had been used by the company since the early 1950s for various prestige versions of existing models, right through a large top-of-the-line six-window 1962 Electra 225 hardtop.
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This particular little car was a compact car derived from the Japanese domestic market Toyota Sprinter, itself a version of the Toyota Corolla, and jointly developed by Toyota and General Motors. Produced from 1988 to 2002, the car was sold exclusively in the United States and succeeded the 1985–1988 Chevrolet Nova, which was also derived from the Sprinter. All of these cars were built at NUMMI (New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc.), a joint venture company between Toyota and General Motors in Fremont, California.
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This Caddie is a personal luxury car that was manufactured and marketed by Cadillac from 1952 to 2002 over ten generations. Competitors and similar vehicles included the Lincoln Mark series, Buick Riviera, Oldsmobile Toronado and Chrysler's Imperial Coupe. This car was at or near the top of the Cadillac line during early model years. The original 1953 convertible and the Brougham models of 1957–1960 were the most expensive models that Cadillac offered those years, and the car was never less than second in price after the Cadillac Series 75 until 1966.
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This car is a front-engine, front-wheel drive five-door compact hatchback manufactured and marketed by Chrysler's Dodge division from model years 2007 to 2012, replacing the Neon and Chrysler PT Cruiser. Following the car's concept which debuted at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show, the pre-production version debuted on at the 2006 North American International Auto Show, with market launch in March 2006. This car was manufactured at the Belvidere Assembly plant, and across its six-year model run, just over 400,000 were produced.
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This specific car is a five-door, front engine compact crossover SUV introduced for model year 2007, by a well-known car company and is now in its second generation. The first generation of this car (2007-2017)and the Patriot, its rebadged variant, were among this company's very first crossover SUVs. The second-generation of this SUV debuted in 2016 in Brazil and at the Los Angeles International Auto Show, sharing a modified platform with the Renegade. It handles well...especially a Canadian winter...but it's still made by this company.
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This car is a model of automobile which was produced from 1955 to 1989. It was introduced for the 1956 model year as a sub-series of the Belvedere, becoming a separate series one level above the contemporary Belvedere for 1959. This car was a full-size car from 1959 to 1961, then a mid-size car from 1962 to 1964, again a full-size car from 1965 to 1974, and again a mid-size car from 1975 to 1978. From 1975 to 1977 it was sold alongside the full-size Gran Fury. It was featured in the film Christine.
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This car is a personal luxury car produced by a certain division of General Motors from 1966 to 1992. Designed to transcend Ford Thunderbird and GM's own Buick Riviera, with its all new transaxle version of GM's Turbohydramatic transmission this car is historically significant as the first U.S.-produced front-wheel drive automobile since the demise of the Cord in 1937. This car placed third in the 1966 European Car of the Year contest, a distinction no other U.S. car has achieved before or since, and won the 1966 Motor Trend Car of the Year award in the U.S.
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This model series was a family of compact cars from General Motors. This was the first series of this type of vehicle. The automobile platform, the Z-body, was developed entirely in-house at the new company base, and it shared very little with the rest of the General Motors model line. It implemented a spaceframe design, which had been used on some Pontiacs during the 1980's. This meant that the side panels did not carry load and could be made of plastic instead of metal. These polymer panels were dent-resistant, something that remained a selling point for the car until just a few years before the brand was discontinued.
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This car is a full-size luxury SUV engineered and manufactured by a very well-known company. It was their first major entry into the popular SUV market. This car was introduced for the 1999 model year in response to German and Japanese competitors and to Ford's 1998 release of the Lincoln Navigator. The car project went into production only ten months after it was approved. This car is built in Arlington, Texas. The name of the car refers to a siege warfare tactic of scaling defensive walls or ramparts with the aid of ladders or siege towers.
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This boss car is the name of three different generations of automobiles (two of those being pony cars) produced by a well-known company. From model years 1970 to 1974, the first generation pony car was built using the Chrysler E platform, sharing major components with the Plymouth Barracuda. The second generation, from 1978 to 1983, was a badge engineered Mitsubishi Galant Lambda compact car. The third and current generation is a pony car introduced in early 2008 as a rival to the evolved fifth generation Ford Mustang.
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This specific car is a subcompact crossover SUV (mini SUV in Europe) produced by a well-known car company. The off-road vehicle was first shown to the public in March 2014 at the Geneva Motor Show and production started in late August of that year. Standard models of this popular car come with front-wheel drive. The vehicle offers the four-wheel drive systems Active Drive I and Active Drive Low, both of which are paired with the car company's well-known Selec-Terrain System.
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Engineers were given free rein to design whatever they wanted in a "hot rod" or "sportster" type vehicle. Thomas C. Gale, Chrysler's design and international director's love for 1930s-era hot rods inspired Chrysler's latest design triumph, the retro-styled car approved the rod-inspired car as the company's follow-up show-stopper to the Dodge Viper. An early influence is credited to a Chrysler-sponsored project at the Art Center College of Design that resulted in a thesis by Douglas "Chip" Foose that included drawings of a retro-roadster. Foose "designed it as a coupe for Chrysler to begin with but modified it to a roadster version."
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This car is arguably one of the rarest and most valued muscle cars to date. In total there were 1358 originals made. The origin of the car came about as a result of NASCAR. The company was seeking to develop a Hemi engine that could compete with the famed 426 Hemi from Chrysler in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series. NASCAR's homologation rules required that at least 500 cars be fitted with this motor and sold to the general public. After much consideration, it was decided by the company that this car would be the car that would house this new engine.
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In 1908, a National Cash Register magnate bought out the interests of E.R. Thomas in a specific automobile company and renamed the firm after himself. The company flourished in the next decade by producing an automobile that was quick, light, and mechanically sophisticated, as well as offering great value for the money. They encouraged a sporty reputation for their automobiles by sponsoring a certain award in baseball, an early version of the American League Most Valuable Player Award, awarded from 1911 to 1914 (Ty Cobb won the first).
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In the tradition of coach built shooting brakes, this car company offers up this model for any version of the C7 Corvette Coupe. Its components can be fitted to the standard production C7, another version of the SC627 Stingray or Grand Sport, or yet another model of the same name. This car's hatch assembly is a part-for-part replacement of the original equipment Corvette rear hatch, using the original hardware and latching mechanisms. It operates in an identical fashion.Not a bad addition.
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This car is a very popular brand of automobile marketed by Dodge. The first version of this model was a show car in 1964. There have been several different production versions of this car, built on three different platforms and sizes. In the U.S., the car's nameplate has been used on subcompact hatchbacks, full-sized sedans, and personal luxury coupes. The current version is a four-door sedan. The three main iterations of this car were a mid-size (B-body) two-door car (1966–78), a subcompact (L-body) car (1983–87), and the (LX) full-size platform four-door sedans built since 2006.
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This car is the third generation of the model off-road vehicle. It was unveiled at the 2006 North American International Auto Show, the JK series 2007 Unlimited model at the 2006 New York Auto Show. The car's body and chassis were completely redesigned during the era when the company was part of DaimlerChrysler. Just like the Willys MB, and the models before it, the JK continues to have a separate body and frame, rigid live axles both front and rear, a fold-flat windshield, and can be driven without doors.
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This classic car is a mid-size car with a focus on performance built by a very popular motor company in the United States between 1968 and 1980. By 1968, some of the original muscle cars were moving away from their roots as relatively cheap, fast cars as they gained features and increased in price. This company developed this specific car to market a lower priced, basic trim model to its upscale GTX. It's too bad that it had that spoiler...it really has spoiled the car.
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This car was the Chrysler Corporation's luxury automobile brand between 1955 and 1975, with a brief reappearance from 1981 to 1983. The name had been used since 1926, but was never a separate make, just the top-of-the-line Chrysler. However, in 1955, the company decided to spin it off as its own make and division to better compete with its North American rivals, Lincoln and Cadillac. The car would see new or modified body styles introduced every two to three years, all with V8 engines and automatic transmissions, as well as technologies that would filter down to Chrysler Corporation's other models.
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This car's production began under a car company of Tarrytown, New York. The company was named after founders Jonathan Dixon, who earlier had worked for Oldsmobile, and Benjamin Briscoe, an automobile industry pioneer and part owner of the Briscoe Brothers Metalworks, who was president of the company at its height. In 1907, following a fire that destroyed the Tarrytown, NY, factory, the company constructed what was then the largest automobile factory in the world in New Castle, Indiana. This factory continued as a Chrysler plant following its takeover of the company until its demolition in 2004.
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This very popular car is an American automobile manufactured by Chevrolet, classified as a pony car and some versions also as a muscle car. It went on sale on September 29, 1966, for the 1967 model year and was designed as a competing model to the Ford Mustang. The car shared its platform and major components with the Pontiac Firebird, also introduced for 1967. Four distinct generations of this car were developed before production ended in 2002. The nameplate was revived on a concept car that evolved into the fifth-generation of the car; production started on March 16, 2009
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This was a brand of truck originally produced in the United States in 1913 by a defunct motor company. Dropped in 1922, the name was reintroduced for a line of trucks manufactured by the Chrysler Corporation after purchasing the car company in 1928. Later, Chrysler absorbed another company and started producing its truck line, so over time, these trucks became rebadged versions of a popular brand, similar to the parallel sale by General Motors of its GMC and Chevrolet truck lines. The modern-day descendant of Chrysler's truck division is now known as Ram Trucks.
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This car company was founded on the concept that you could build a car that featured both extreme light weight and large V8 power. In addition, this specific model features fantastic weight distribution and great ergonomics. "At [this company], we made a car that weighs the same as a Lotus, but has the power of a V8 muscle car. We maximize our use of technology wherever possible. When we need to go to a vendor, we go to the most high-tech vendor we can find - to build the most high-quality component to build the best car with." -Luke Richards, CEO
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This car is a roadster that was produced by a now-defunct company, and was initially released in the first quarter of 2006 as a 2007 model. It uses the Kappa automobile platform shared with the Pontiac Solstice and Opel GT. The concept was shown at the 2005 North American International Auto Show, with the production version following at the 2006 show. It was built at GM's Wilmington, Delaware plant, alongside the Pontiac Solstice and the Opel GT. Too bad it's not made anymore