In addition, several pioneering automobile companies operated in the city, among them Moline Automobile Company, Moline Wagon Company, Stephens ( a marque of the Moline Plow Company ) and Velie Motor Corporation.

Recognising the value of publicity gained from auto racing, which no other British marque did, in spring, Edge entered an 8 hp ( 6 kW ) Napier in the Thousand Miles ( 1, 600 km ) Trial of the Automobile Club on behalf of Edward Kennard ; driven by Edge, with Kennard along, on a circuit from Newbury to Edinburgh and back, she won her class, being one of only thirty-five finishers ( of sixty-four starters ) and one of just twelve to average the requisite 12 mph ( 19 km / h ) in England and 10 mph ( 16 km / h ) in Scotland.

The rights to the Morris marque are currently owned by Nanjing Automobile ( Group ) Corporation.

* Cord Automobile, a former American car marque founded by Errett Lobban Cord

Nanjing Automobile Corporation bought the rights to the MG marque.

MG production was revived in 2007 by new owner Nanjing Automobile, while the Rover marque was purchased by Ford in 2006, only to be transferred to ownership of Indian carmaker Tata in 2008, as Tata also took over Land Rover and Jaguar to form Jaguar Land Rover.

Automobile engines sold by the Buick marque of General Motors.

Automobile engines from the Oldsmobile marque of General Motors.

As of 2012 the Wolseley marque is owned by SAIC Motor, having been acquired by its subsidiary Nanjing Automobile following the break-up of the MG Rover Group.

Recognizing the value of publicity gained from auto racing, which no other British marque did, Edge entered an 8 hp ( 6 kW ) four-cylinder Napier in the Automobile Club's 1900 Thousand Miles ( 1600 km ) Trial of the Automobile Club on behalf of Edward Kennard ; driven by Edge, with Kennard along, on a circuit from Newbury to Edinburgh and back, she won her class, being one of only thirty-five finishers ( of sixty-four starters ) and one of just twelve to average the requisite 12 mph ( 19 km / h ) in England and 10 mph ( 16 km / h ) in Scotland.

* The 2005 Monterey Historic Automobile Races honored Chaparrals as the featured marque.

Even before it was formally dissolved in 1912, the A.L.A.M. was succeeded by the Automobile Board of Trade, the direct lineal ancestor of the present-day Automobile Manufacturers Association.

The plan was supported by Frederick P. Fish, counsel for the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce.

The armed car was invented by Royal Page Davidson at Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in 1898 with the Davidson-Duryea gun carriage and the later Davidson Automobile Battery armored car.

The first race in 1929, was organised by Anthony Noghès under the auspices of the " Automobile Club de Monaco ", and was won by William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti.

The principality's first Grand Prix was organised in 1929 by Anthony Noghès, under the auspices of Prince Louis II, through the Automobile Club de Monaco ( ACM ).

The first Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco was an invitation only event, but not all of those invited decided to attend.

The Formula 3000 International Championship was a motor racing series created by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ) in 1985 to become the final preparatory step for drivers hoping to enter the Formula One championship.

In February 1907 a prototype model with a 45-degree V-Twin engine was displayed at the Chicago Automobile Show.

The result was Beijing Jeep Corporation, Ltd., in partnership with Beijing Automobile Industry Corporation, to produce the Jeep Cherokee ( XJ ) in Beijing.

After the 1955 New Zealand Grand Prix, Brabham was persuaded by Dean Delamont, competitions manager of the Royal Automobile Club in the United Kingdom, to try a season of racing in Europe, then the international centre of road racing.

From 1947 to 1990 it was the parent company of automobile manufacturer Saab Automobile, and between 1968 and 1995 the company was in a merger with commercial vehicle manufacturer Scania, known as Saab-Scania.

The Saab Automobile division was based in Trollhättan.

One of the most significant logistical challenges was accommodating the National Automobile Dealers Association Convention, which was originally slated to occupy the Superdome on February 3.

Automobile Wankel rotary engines are high speed engines, however, it was shown that an early opening of the intake port, and long intake ducts can provide the required amount of torque at low RPM, and thus elasticity.

The first Alpine event was held in 1898, the Austrian Touring Club's three-day Automobile Run through South Tyrol, which included the infamous Stelvio Pass.

It was not until 1923 that the Royal Automobile Club hosted a meeting to further discuss the rules and regulations and another five years elapsed before the Squash Rackets Association was formed to set standards for squash in Great Britain.

Rolls was introduced to Henry Royce by a friend at the Automobile Club, Henry Edmunds, who was also a director of Royce Ltd. Edmunds showed him Royce's car and arranged the historic meeting between Rolls and Royce at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, on 4 May 1904.

Some of the major research ventures undertaken by these schools include the pioneering work done by the School of Environmental Studies in highlighting the presence of arsenic in groundwater in countries like India and Bangladesh and the development of the first alcohol based car by the School of Automobile Engineering.

In 1993 he started a campaign to collect funds for the " people's automobile " and created the AVVA venture, which stands for All-Russian Automobile Alliance ; the AvtoVAZ held a major share in the venture.

In Britain, the legal maximum speed of precluded road racing, but in April and May 1900, the Automobile Club of Great Britain ( the forerunner of the Royal Automobile Club ) organised the Thousand Mile Trial, a 15-day event linking Britain's major cities, in order to promote this novel form of transport.

* November – subsequently, several French motoring pioneers form the Automobile Club de France ( ACF ), which thereafter will govern most major races in France.

The inaugural event was the 1932 Royal Automobile Club Rally, which was the first major rally of the modern era in Great Britain.

Walter Philip Reuther ( September 1, 1907 – May 9, 1970 ) was an American labor union leader, who made the United Automobile Workers a major force not only in the auto industry but also in the Democratic Party in the mid 20th century.

The 1936 – 1937 Flint Sit-Down Strike changed the United Automobile Workers ( UAW ) from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major labor union and led to the unionization of the domestic United States automobile industry.

Volkswagen Group, via its Volkswagen Group China division, has 16 subsidiaries in China, with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation ( SAIC ), and First Automobile Works ( FAW ) being the two major Chinese partner companies.

The city is home to KrAZ, a truck-manufacturing company ( one of the largest in Eastern Europe ) as well as a major European oil refinery operated by Ukrtatnafta, the road-making machine works, Kremenchuk Automobile Assembly Plant, the railcar plant, the wheel plant, the carbon black plant, the steel works and others.

The track has held events sanctioned by major sanctioning bodies, such as the American Automobile Association, USAC, NASCAR, CART / Champ Car World Series, and the IndyCar Series.

Two major factories are found there: Maszyn Górniczych " Omag ", which in the 1930s, called Spółka Akcyjna Zjednoczenia Fabryk Maszyn i Samochodów " Oświęcim " ( Auschwitz United Machinery and Automobile Manufacturing Inc .) produced the " Oświęcim-Praga " which won a Monte Carlo Rally ; and the Polinova Company ( popularly known as Papownia ).

In 2009, Sinautec Automobile Technologies, based in Arlington, VA, and its Chinese partner, Shanghai Aowei Technology Development Company are testing with 17 forty-one seat Ultracap Buses serving the Greater Shanghai area since 2006 without any major technical problems.

Customers for the narrower PD2 / 22 version included Jersey Motor Transport, West Riding Automobile Company and the Corporations of Darwen, Great Yarmouth, Luton, and St Helens, the full-width front for the narrower chassis was made from standard components, the major difference being that the mudguards to the front wing assembly were narrower narrow double-deckers with air-brakes were very much a minority taste.