In 1980 Aston-Martin had plans, which did not materialise, to buy MG, which they would have utilised as a sister marque, probably building smaller sports cars.

The form book was rewritten in 1988 with the entry of the ambitious Reynard marque with a brand new chassis ; Reynard had won their first race in every formula they'd entered.

The company has always had a close relationship with, initially, the Volkswagen ( VW ) marque, and later, the Volkswagen Group ( which also owns Audi AG ), because the first Volkswagen Beetle was designed by Ferdinand Porsche.

Rhodes was dissatisfied with Roland's treatment of the marque, and had plans to re-introduce his iconic electric piano, but died before he was able to bring it to market.

Nevertheless, these rough men had little concern for legal niceties, and exploited every opportunity to pillage Spanish targets, whether or not a letter of marque was available.

Furthermore, even those buccaneers who had valid letters of marque often failed to observe their terms ; Morgan's 1671 attack on Panama, for instance, was not at all authorized by his commission from the governor of Jamaica.

Sir Andrew Barton, Lord High Admiral of Scotland, followed the example of his father, who had been issued with letters of marque by James III of Scotland to prey upon English and Portuguese shipping in 1485 ; the letters in due course were reissued to the son.

Before his arrival, however, the pirates had been forced to surrender by a force of Bermudian privateers who had been issued letters of marque by the Governor of Bermuda.

The notion of reprisal, and behind it that just war involved avenging a wrong, clung to the letter of marque until 1620 in England, in that to apply for one a shipowner had to submit to the Admiralty Court an estimate of actual losses.

French support for the English royalists had led the Commonwealth to issue letters of marque against French ships and against French goods in neutral ships.

The name of Daimler as a marque of automobiles had been sold by DMG-following his death in 1900-for use by other companies ( Daimler Motor Company and Austro-Daimler ), so the new company, Daimler-Benz, would have created confusion and legal problems to include Daimler in its new brand name, and therefore, used Mercedes to represent the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft interest.

The marque Facel Vega was created in 1954 by Jean Daninos ( brother of the humorist Pierre Daninos, who wrote Les Carnets du Major Thompson ), although the Facel company had been established by the Bonzavia Company in 1939 as a subcontracting company for the aviations industry.

The last car to carry the Simca badge was the 1980 Solara, a 1307 with a boot, but by 1981 this had become a Talbot, thus ending the Simca marque entirely.

In the 1930s they had launched a range of sporting bikes under the " Falcon " brand, and it was under this marque that the company relaunched itself.

Bolivia had no navy, so on March 26 of 1879 Hilarión Daza formally offered letters of marque to any ships willing to fight for Bolivia.

By the end of April 2005, Sir Richard Branson had reportedly expressed an interest in buying the remaining assets of the company for the purpose of reviving the marque in order to enter the hybrid automobile market, and several other parties were also rumoured as wishing to buy the remnants.

IBM printers were well-built, had impressive duty cycles, and were priced in line with their marque.

Privateers had some success, with 1, 697 letters of marque being issued by Congress.

Hence cars that had more than one marque name ( e. g. Austin Seven and Morris Mini Minor ) would have the same ADO number.

This was a new marque created by British Leyland although it had previously been used as a model name on the Austin Princess limousine from 1947 to 1956.

Following the uplift in sales for all of Rolls-Royce, and resurgence of the Bentley marque, the then-owner, Vickers, set about preparing a new model to replace the derivatives of the Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit / Bentley Mulsanne which it had been selling since 1980.

Privateers had some success, with 1, 697 letters of marque being issued by Congress.

At one stage, parent firm PSA Peugeot Citroën had planned to launch a Talbot Samba replacement as a version of the AX with a different grille and a Talbot badge, but this plan was cancelled, as the entire Talbot marque was axed in the same year the AX was launched.

On March 20, 2012, Nissan announced a plan to revive Datsun as a low-cost marque, 31 years after removing it from its line-up.

Holden re-introduced its defunct Statesman name in 1990, this time under the Holden marque, as the Statesman and Caprice.

Toledo, Ohio has been the headquarters of the Jeep marque since its inception, and the city has always been proud of this heritage.

A " letter of marque and reprisal " would involve permission to cross an international border to effect a reprisal ( take some action against an attack or injury ) authorized by an issuing jurisdiction to conduct reprisal operations outside its borders.

The East India Company arranged for letters of marque for its East Indiamen such as the Lord Nelson, not so that they could carry cannons to fend off warships, privateers, and pirates on their voyages to India and China — that they could do without permission — but so that, should they have the opportunity to take a prize, they could do so without being guilty of piracy.

Initially Minis were marketed under the Austin and Morris names, as the Austin Seven and Morris Mini Minor, until Mini became a marque in its own right in 1969.

As a result of Pontiac's rising sales, versus Oakland's declining sales, Pontiac became the only companion marque to survive its parent, with Oakland ceasing production in 1932.

The Languedoc-Roussillon region has adopted a marque to help market its products, in particular, but not limited to, wine.

At the RL's price point, most consumers expected a V8, furthermore they did not perceive Acura as being on par with its German rivals and expected more value from the Japanese marque.

The original MG marque was in continuous use ( barring the years of the Second World War ) for 56 years after its inception.

Rambler became a marque in its own right and the mainstay of the company.

It kept its name until 1962 when " Packard " was dropped off the corporation's name at a time when it was introducing the all new Avanti, and a less anachronistic image was being sought, thus finishing the story of the great American Packard marque.

BMC continued to produce vehicles under the marque names of its incorporated companies, many of which competed with each other.

Plymouth was a marque of automobiles based in the United States, produced by the Chrysler Corporation and its successor DaimlerChrysler.

The identity of the marque has changed several times throughout its history.

The company's long term view envisages not merely the retention of the Daimler marque, but the expansion of its markets at home and overseas, it is stated.

The marque went through several lifetimes before its liquidation in 2005.

However the United States did not acknowledge the Confederate States as a nation and denied the legitimacy of any letters of marque issued by its government.

It was the car for which the marque Saab became internationally known, not least because of its safety innovations and its motor sport successes.

For most of its time under Leyland or BL ownership, the Triumph marque belonged in the Specialist Division of the company, which went by the names of Rover Triumph and later Jaguar Rover Triumph other than a brief period during the mid-1970s when all BL's car marques or brands were grouped together under the name of Leyland Cars.

* DS car marque, the new upmarket marque or brand set up by Citroën to run alongside its mainstream cars