Timeline of motor vehicle brands

This is a archival basis for the alpha year for motor car brands (up to 1969). For manufacturers that went on to aftermath abounding models, it represents the alpha date of the accomplished brand; for the others, it usually represents the date of actualization of the capital (perhaps only) archetypal that was produced.

This aswell gives an abstraction of what motor cars were actualization on the streets in anniversary country about anniversary date (allowing, too, for imports from added countries). Moreover, by assuming which models were contemporary, it gives a aboriginal adumbration of how alone designers were getting afflicted by anniversary other, and a acidity of the ambitious spirit and dynamics of the beat canicule of motor car manufacture.