Automotive Brands in Brandle

A Latin translation of the founder's surname: Horch means to listen in German.

Its Chetak scooter became a symbol of middle-class mobility in India.

W.O. Bentley pioneered aluminium pistons before founding his car company in London in 1919.

Ettore Bugatti started the company in Molsheim, Alsace, in 1909, and his cars won hundreds of races.

Louis Chevrolet co-founded the brand in 1911 but sold his stake in 1915; General Motors absorbed it in 1918.

Enzo Ferrari founded the racing team before the road-car company; he called production cars a necessary evil.

Henry Ford launched the Model T in 1908, making cars affordable for ordinary workers.

Soichiro Honda's first company, founded in 1937, made piston rings.

Means modernity in Korean; the company was founded in 1947 and built its first car in 1968.

Originally the Swallow Sidecar Company; renamed Jaguar in 1945 after the SS initials became problematic.

Toyota developed the name through an exhaustive branding exercise in the late 1980s.

Founder Colin Chapman built his first car from a used Austin Seven in a lock-up garage.

Its tractors and rugged utility vehicles made it a familiar name across rural India.

Named after Ahura Mazda, the Zoroastrian god of wisdom, also related to founder Jujiro Matsuda.

Named after Mercedes Jellinek, the daughter of an early Daimler customer who sold the cars.

Alec Issigonis designed it in 1959 as a fuel-saving small car that made clever use of space.

Its name abbreviates Nippon Sangyo, meaning Japan Industries.

Ferdinand Porsche designed the Volkswagen Beetle before launching his own sports-car brand in 1948.

The name comes from the Indian River, which runs near the Florida hometown of founder RJ Scaringe.

The Japanese word for the Pleiades star cluster, which appears on the brand's logo.

Michio Suzuki built the company on power looms before pivoting to motorcycles in the 1950s.

Named after Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the AC electric motor that powers EVs.

Changed from Toyoda; one popular reason is that Toyota takes a lucky eight strokes in Japanese.

Latin for I roll — fittingly chosen for a car company in 1927.