The Cadillac has been a big seller for General Motors who owns the brand Cadillac. Sales outside North America however have been terrible with little to no interest, mainly due to its size and design. Cadillac is however a luxury car. It has been compared to the Rolls Royce.

Cadillac has a long history with its first car being produced in October 1902. It had over 2000 sales in the first year which for the times were a lot of orders. General Motors purchased the company outright in 1909 and became a prestige division there on after.

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Chrysler was an independent automobile manufacturer until 1998 when it was brought out and put under the Daimler-Benz banner. It is now known as Daimler-Chrysler. The Chrysler corporation first started in 1925 and was formed by Walter Percy Chrysler.

Chrysler is the company that created the Plymouth brand of automobiles. That brand was manufactured from 1928 all the way to 2001 with significant design changes and technology advances in between. Plymouth is one of the longest serving brand of car ever manufactured.

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BMW is one of the best known car brands in the world and probably the best known German car brand. BMW is known for its luxury cars at an affordable price and first started manufacturing cars in 1913. It was far from being the first automobile maker in Germany, but became famous very quickly.

BMW stands for Bayerische Motoren Werke AG or in an English translation, Bavarian Motor Works. It is the biggest manufacturer of luxury cars in the world. They also make luxury motorcycles as well. BMW is also the parent company of the BMW MINI and the Rolls Royce car brands.

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Audi is another in a long history of German automobile makers. The Germans seem to produce car companies at the drop of a hat. Their headquarters are at Ingolstadt, Bavaria. Audi is a wholly owned subsidiary of the famous Volkswagen company. Audi’s catch phrases or slogans are “progression through technology” and “never follow”.

Audi did not have the happiest of beginnings. Audi was first started in 1899 by August Horch and was not called Audi at that time. It was, of course, called Horch Automobiles and the first car rolled off the very primitive production line in 1901.

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Acura automobiles has been around for 20 years. 2006 is their 20th anniversary of being in business in the Japanese market. Acura is of course known as the first Japanese car automaker to sell a range of luxury performance cars to the United States which it started doing in 1986.

Acura has been big into research and development with their cars, coming up with some intuitive models, designs and technologies only available to the Acura car range. Things like Super Handling All Wheel Drive and Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control have set Acura apart from the mass of other Japanese car manufacturers.

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