Sunday, 10 April 2011

North American Cars we miss today

The Number of car makers hailing from North America over the years surpass the total car makers worldwide. Here are some that made a notable impact.

1.Duesenberg:  Born in Auburn, Indiana. Duesenbergs weere best known for their quality and luxury.




2. Delorean: Very rarely does an extremely shotlived company make a car that gets a place in the books of history. Delorean is it. It is remembered for the one model it produced — the distinctive  Stainless steel Delorean DMC-12  sports car featuring gull-wing doors — and for its brief and turbulent history, ending in receivership and bankruptcy in 1982.



3.AMC- The Chrysler as you know today is built on the foundation of the excellent technology and design inherted after merging AMC (American Motors Corporation) including Jeep which is the backbone of Chrysler today. American Motors Corporation (AMC) was an American automobile company formed by the 1954 merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company. At the time, it was the largest corporate merger in U.S. history.



4.  Auburn Automobile Company- Another company that had modest success unless World War took its toll with materials shortage.


5. Brewster cars: One of the most disctintively designed cars ever. literally.


6. Pierce-Arrow: One of the founder companies of Detroit.


7. Packard - The second of the first generation three from Detroit.


8. Peerless- The third of the primary Detroit three.


9. Bricklin: Canada is not exactly known for automobiles even though a major chunk of cars running in United States come from Canada. Bricklin was a true Canadian Sports car. Here is the SV-1.


10. Desoto: A Star of Chrysler corporation at one time, Desoto was a known name.


11. Oldsmobile - One of the oldest running car brands under GM. This brand has been voted as the most powerful discontinued brand in USA.


12. Hummer: The latest casualty at GM. Half the world still lives under ignorance of the extinction of this car.


13. Pontiac: The most loved car brand that GM destroyed by its own hands.


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