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Francuzske auta

Renault

Renault S.A. It is a French automaker, which has been producing automobiles, agricultural equipment and transport vehicles. Thanks to the alliance with Nissan it is the fourth largest automaker in the world. Owns a Romanian company Automobile Dacia and the Korean company Renault Samsung Motors. The current CEO is Carlos Ghosn. The most successful models of the Renault Clio and Renault Laguna, and the main market is France. The company is known for numerous revolutionary designs, security technologies, and motor sports

Carmaker Renault was founded in 1899 under the name Société Renault Frères. The founders were Louis Renault and his brothers Marcel and Fernand. Louis was the chief engineer and designer, his brothers Marcel and Fernand were in charge of the company's management and administration. Louis Renault was the largest competitor André Citroën.

1917 Louis Renault designed a new type of tank Renault FT-17 rear engine and a rotating tower. This concept is used today.

1940 - 1944 The automaker produced tanks and meet the requirements of the occupation forces

1944 Louis Renault was accused that during the war he worked for Germany

1944 Louis Renault died in prison on Oct. 24 at age 67 years while awaiting trial. The automaker was nationalized and renamed the Régie Nationale des Usines Renault.

1955 merged carmaker Renault SOMUA, Latil and combine them with their own division for the production of trucks. The new division was called SCAM.

1968 Czech-Slovak carmaker Avia began producing licensed model SCAM Super Galion.

1974 Citroën sold a stake in the carmaker Berliet, Renault. The automaker Berliet dealt with the production of trucks, buses and trolleybuses.

1978 teamed carmaker Renault Berliet and Saviem. He thus created a new division for its production of trucks and commercial vehicles Renault Vehicules Industries, later Renault Trucks.

1990 undergone privatization car. Renault has become a joint stock company owned by the state. He bought a 20% stake automaker Volvo.

1994 Volvo sold to 12% of a state reduced its share to 53%.

Established in 1999 the Renault-Nissan Alliance. Later, the Renault Samsung Motors

2004 reorganization of the subsidiary Dacia to low cost brand. Dacia Logan model will be produced for € 5,000 in the number of one million units per year. The same car was sold in France for € 7600.

2007 Agreement between Renault and Russian car manufacturer AvtoVAZ Lada. Renault has pledged to strengthen the carmaker Lada domestically and modernize Russian producers. Also began production of the Logan for Russia.

According to OICA position 2010 201 020, Renault ranked 10th ranked in the number of global manufacturers of automobiles.

2011 Renault has conquered first place in marketability in France

Japonske auta

Lexus

Lexus is the manufacturing division of luxury cars belonging together with Scion to Toyota's. The division was established in 1989 stating sedan Lexus LS (very reminiscent of the W126 model car Mercedes-Benz) on the market. Lexus is Toyota, along with its parent pioneer in hybrid drive cars. Use and develop technology Hybrid Synergy Drive, which allows downsizing capacity conventional combustion drives. The automaker is famous in the field of environmental performance and, thanks to their active safety elements indicates the direction we are going in modern automobiles. Cars of this brand are sold in North America, Europe, Asia, Middle East, Oceania, Africa and Latin America. In the US, Lexus is the best selling brand of luxury cars. In 2007 he was declared a J.D. Power and Associates in conjunction with the Porsche car company the most reliable brands in the world.

Honda Motor Company, Ltd. (Jap. 本田技研 工業 株式会社 - transcript: Honda Giken kógjó kabušiki Gais) is a Japanese multinational corporation best known as a manufacturer of cars, motorcycles and automotive devices.

Honda

Honda was the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world since 1959, as well as also the largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines by volume of sales, and produced more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year. The company became in 2001 the second largest Japanese automaker. The world's eighth largest automaker after General Motors, Volkswagen Group, Toyota, Hyundai Motor Group, Ford, Nissan and PSA.

Honda was the first automaker, which has established its dedicated luxury brand Acura in 1986. In addition to the production of cars and motorcycles, Honda also manufactures, inter alia, garden equipment, marine engines, personal watercraft and generators

In 2013, Honda has invested 5.7% (6.8 billion) of its revenues on research and development.

The company was founded in 1948 Soičiro Honda  and currently employs 190,338 workers

Subaru

Subaru (ス バ ル) it is an automobile manufacturing division of Japanese transportation conglomerate Fuji džúkógjó (Fudji Heavy Industries).

The automaker Subaru is internationally known for its use of boxer engines in most of its vehicles with a capacity of 1,500 cm³ and also use all-wheel drive that Subaru introduced in 1972. It also offers a variety of turbocharged versions of models like Impreza WRX.

Fuji džúkógjó conglomerate, the parent company of Subaru, is currently in partial affiliation with Tojota džidóša, which owns 16.5% of FHI.

History Subaru is associated with the development of aviation laboratory in 1917, he founded Čikuhei Nakajima. In 1931 the company was renamed Nakajima Hikoki and became during the second World War, Japan's largest manufacturer of military aircraft.

In 1946 there is a reorganization of the company Hikoki Nakajima Fuji Sangye, which begins to produce Fuji Rabbit scooters. The first car Subaru (Subaru model 1500) was made in 1954

Mitsubishi

Mitsubishi 3000GT or Mitsubishi GTO and Dodge Stealth sports car is produced automaker Mitsubishi Motors between 1990 and 2001. The name was derived from the GTO two-door coupe Mitsubishi Galant GTO, which the company sold in early 1970.

After a successful exhibition concept of HSR at Tokyo Motor Show in 1989, Mitsubishi developed the new GTO as a technically advanced sports coupe, which would compete with a Honda NSX, Mazda RX-7, Nissan 300ZX, Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R and Toyota Supra. Even though the GTO name has been used in Japan, the Group was concerned that the name GTO, which carry high built cars like the Ferrari 250 GTO and Pontiac GTO will be the Japanese car. Dodge Stealth was swallowed in 1991 as the pace car for the Indianapolis 500 race association UAW, however, it did not accept the fact that the Japanese car Pace car and then replaced the prototype Dodge Viper

The first generation of that time included many new technologies, for example, permanent four-wheel drive, four-wheel steering, active aerodynamic elements which constitute adjustable front and rear spoiler, sports exhaust or travel mode and electronically controlled suspension (ECS). Appearance tipper truck contained headlights and prominent hood bulge due to the electronically controlled suspension.