A car brand named after its founder.

1. Ford Motor Company was founded by Mr. Henry Ford in 1903, and it is one of the largest automobile enterprises in the world. 1908, Ford Motor Company produced the world's first car belonging to ordinary people-Model T, and the world automobile industry revolution began. 19 13, Ford Motor Company developed the world's first assembly line, which made the number of T-cars reach150,000, creating an unbroken world record. For this reason, Mr. Ford is honored as the man who put wheels on the world. 1999, Fortune magazine named him "the business giant of the 20th century" in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of human industry together with Ford Motor Company. There is only one secret of Mr. Henry Ford's success: trying to understand people's inner needs and using the best materials and the best employees to make a good car that everyone can afford.

Today, Ford Motor Company is the leading automobile manufacturer in the world. Headquartered in dearborn, Michigan, USA, it covers more than 200 regional markets on six continents, with 325,000 employees and 65,438+065,438+00 factories all over the world. As a world-class automobile company, today's Ford still adheres to the corporate philosophy initiated by Mr. Henry Ford: "Consumers are the center of our work. We must always think of consumers at work and provide better products and services than our competitors. "

Ford Motor Company owns eight automobile brands, including aston martin, Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lincoln, Mazda, Mercury and Volvo. In addition, Ford Motor Company also owns Ford Motor Credit, the world's largest car loan company, Hertz, the world's largest car rental company, and the famous car service brand QualityCare. These world-famous brands are of great value to Ford and consumers all over the world.

2. Daimler Chrysler

Chrysler Automobile Company is the third largest automobile industry company in the United States, founded by walter chrysler in 1925. The company has subsidiaries in many countries around the world and is a multinational automobile company. The company is headquartered in Detroit, USA.

1924, walter chrysler left General Motors to join Williams & Ovland Company and began to produce Chrysler cars. 1925 He bought the bankrupt Maxwell Company and set up his own company. With his own technology and financial resources, he successively acquired Dodge, Briggs and Plymouth, and gradually developed into the third largest automobile company in the United States.

With the expansion of its business, Chrysler began to expand overseas, successively setting up factories in Australia, France, Britain and Brazil, purchasing shares of local automobile companies, and acquiring Italian companies Masarati and Lamborghini, making the company a multinational automobile company. In the 1930s, its golden age, it once surpassed Ford. In 1970s, the company was on the verge of bankruptcy due to poor management, and the famous entrepreneur Lee Yakoka took over the company. After taking office, Yakoka boldly hired new people, laid off employees, won government funding, focused on market research and product development, and achieved amazing success in product advertising. In the early 1980s, Chrysler miraculously came back to life and continued to rank among the top five automobile companies in the world.

In the 1990s, Chrysler was once again in trouble because of the attack of Japanese automobile companies, and fell again and again in the ranking of automobile companies, even falling below Nissan's American branch (American market). Chrysler Automobile Company has Dodge, SF, Chrysler Automobile Department and Dodge Truck and Parts Department. At present, new automobile products include "barrier-free" light trucks, "Dance of the Sun" cars, and automobile products such as "Ghost", "Dodge 600" and "Sailing with the Wind".

At the 6th Beijing International Automobile Industry Exhibition, Daimler-Chrysler will exhibit the brand-new mercedes benz c class which made its debut in China. This car is a completely innovative new model, which was just launched in Europe in May this year. At the same time, the S, E and M Mercedes-Benz models were carefully selected to meet the domestic audience. In addition, the * * * rail CDI engine will be exhibited.

3. Toyota Motor Corporation

One of the top ten automobile industry companies in the world, the largest existing automobile company in Japan, was founded in 1933, and has now developed into automobile production. A huge industrial group whose business involves machinery, electronics, finance and other industries.

In the early days, Toyota mainly made textile machinery, and its founder, Yoshiichiro Toyoda, set up the automobile department in the textile machinery factory on 1933, thus starting the automobile manufacturing history of Toyota Motor Corporation. 1935, Toyota AI automobile was successfully trial-produced, and the automobile industry company was formally established the following year. However, the company developed slowly throughout the thirties and forties, and it was not until after World War II that Toyota Motor Corporation accelerated its development. By introducing European and American technologies and under the guidance of American automobile technical experts and management experts, they quickly mastered advanced automobile production and management technologies, and created a famous Toyota production management model according to the characteristics of the Japanese nation, and constantly improved it, greatly improving the production efficiency of the factory, and flooded into the North American market at the end of the 1960s. 1972, the company produced a total of100000 vehicles.

The 1970s was the golden age for the rapid development of Toyota Motor Corporation. It took only four years from the expiration of 1972 to 1976, and the company produced10 million vehicles with an annual output of over 2 million vehicles. In the 1980s, the production and sales of Toyota Motor Corporation continued to soar. By the early 1990s, the annual output of automobiles had exceeded 4 million, approaching 5 million, beating Ford Motor Company and ranking second in the world. The sixties and seventies of the 20th century was a period of self-growth in Japan, and after the eighties, it began an international strategy of going global in an all-round way. It has successively established wholly-owned or joint ventures in the United States, Britain and Southeast Asia, and jointly established an automobile R&D center in the local area to implement the internationalization strategy of local R&D, design and production.

Toyota Motor Corporation has a strong technical development capability, and attaches great importance to studying customers' demand for automobiles. Therefore, it has created different brand-name products in different historical stages of its development, and defeated its competitors in the United States and Europe with rapid product updates. The early Toyota, Crown, Guangguan and Corolla were famous for some time, and the recent luxury cars such as Cresida and Lexus were also famous. Toyota Motor Corporation is headquartered in Tokyo, and its current president is Toyoda Shoichiro. The annual output of automobiles is nearly 5 million, and the export ratio is close to 50%.

Toyota Motor Corporation establishes partnership with Hyundai Motor Corporation of Korea.

4. Honda

Honda is the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world, and its automobile output and scale are among the top ten automobile manufacturers in the world. Founded in 1948, the founder is the legendary Honda Ichiro. The company is headquartered in Tokyo and has about 1 10000 employees. Now, Honda is a multinational automobile and motorcycle production and sales group. Its products are not only automobiles and motorcycles, but also power machinery products such as generators and agricultural machinery.

Honda's management method is very flexible. Honda, a subsidiary established in the United States, surpassed Chrysler to rank third in the American market with 199 1. Honda's Accord and Civic have been rated as the best and most popular cars by users over the years. In Europe, Honda also set up a branch in Britain. Honda has produced about 3 million cars.

The company is known as the pioneer of Japanese automobile technology development. In technology development and research, founder Fukuichiro Honda is willing to spend a lot of money, so he has made many scientific and technological achievements. Honda's electronic navigator is the first navigation device used in cars in the world. It can display maps and driving routes on the screen, and can also determine the location of cars. Four-wheel anti-skid electronic controller, electronic device for automatically controlling the height of car body, and compound eddy current regulating internal combustion engine are all leading achievements of world automobile high technology. At the same time, Honda is also the first Japanese car company to meet American standards.

Honda has a wide range of motorcycle products. Sports cars, racing cars and ordinary cars occupy an absolute advantage in the world motorcycle market, with a total output of about 6,543,800+million. It accounts for about one third of the global market. Honda's team is also a strong team on the field. Whether it is racing or motorcycle racing, Honda team wins several world championships every year. Honda's main automobile products are Accord, Civic, Shi Yun, City and Honda NSX, S2000, etc. Motorcycle products range from 50cc to 1800cc with various displacements and grades. At the same time, power machinery products include generators, general engines, cultivators, outboard machines, lawn machines, snow removal machines and other products in various fields.

5. Peugeot Citroen

Peugeot Automobile Company is one of the top ten automobile companies in the world and the largest automobile group company in France. Founded in 1890, the founder is armand Peugeot. 1 976, Peugeot annexed the French Citroen company with a long history, thus becoming a multinational industrial group in the world, which mainly produces automobiles and also runs machinery processing, transportation, finance and service industries. Peugeot Automobile Company is headquartered in Paris, France, and its automobile factories are mostly in Funan Xiuquinti province. The total number of employees is about 1 10,000, with an annual output of 2.2 million vehicles.

At the beginning of its establishment, Peugeot mainly produced bicycles and tricycles, and 189 1 began to set foot in the automobile field and achieved success. Due to the continuous adoption of new technology, the company's output is increasing day by day. By the time of World War I, the output had surpassed all French automobile manufacturers, reaching 12000 vehicles. During World War I, armand Peugeot adjusted its business strategy in time, which enabled Peugeot to develop in the war, with an annual output of 48,000 cars from 65,438 to 0939. Peugeot's second great development period was the 1950s and 1960s after World War II. In 20 years, its automobile output has soared tenfold, making it the second largest automobile company in France.

During the period of 1976, Peugeot acquired 60% of the shares of the poorly managed Citroen company by virtue of its own economic strength, thus strengthening its own strength. The total output of automobiles surpassed Renault, ranking first in France. Peugeot has 92 domestic companies and 84 overseas companies. Overseas companies are mainly commercial companies, and there are not many industrial companies. The largest overseas industrial companies are British Talbert Company and Spanish Talbert Company.

In 1980s, Peugeot cooperated with China to set up a joint venture company in Guangzhou to import Peugeot 504 and 505 cars to China. Peugeot car products range from mini-cars to luxury cars, and the most popular is medium-sized cars. Peugeot is characterized by long life and good quality. Its 205 and 309 cars have won the whole rally for many years.