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1. Ferrari

Ferrari is the most famous car in the world Manufacturer of racing and sports cars. Fiat owns 50% of the company, but the company is able to operate independently of Fiat. Most Ferrari cars are built by hand, so production volumes are low. The annual output is only about 4,000 vehicles. The company is headquartered in Modena, Italy. It was founded in 1929 by the world-famous racing driver and epoch-making car design master Enzo Ferrari. Known as the "Father of Racing," the Italian's passion for racing has been boiling in his body since he was a child. Born in Modena in northern Italy in 1898, he loved car adventures since childhood and started driving alone at the age of 13. In 1919, Ferrari participated in the first car race in his life, performed well, and was subsequently absorbed by Alfa Romeo as the driver of the Alfa Romeo team. At that time, he was driving an Alfa Romeo on the track and won many victories. He was hailed as the "Knight" of the racing team by his teammates.

In 1938, Ferrari, who was nearly forty years old, left the racing track and ended his guest-host relationship with Alfa Romeo. He worked hard to realize his dream of designing and manufacturing super sports cars. A racing club was formed and eventually he founded his own car company. Two years later, Ferrari moved its car factory from its hometown of MODENA to its current location in MARANELLO. With the concept of "humanized" car-making technology, this small Italian car factory has become more and more popular. Playing the role of a giant in the world of racing.

He designs cars as a racing athlete and an artist, so his works have a strong sense of movement and bright colors, and at the same time, every component in the cab is designed to be seamless. Make it easy for the driver to operate. Ferrari cars are mainly red (only yellow and other colors have appeared in concept cars in recent years), so some people call it the red Prancing Horse or the Red Devil Ferrari

2. Lotus

In the history of the automobile industry, the Lotus brand is unique. It is the crystallization of the personal struggle and wisdom of Colin Chapman, an outstanding British engineer. . "It is extremely rare in the world for a single person to create an entire series of automobile brands like this." An insider said of Chapman.

The total annual sales volume of Lotus sports cars in the world is more than 5,000 units. The special market positioning of sports cars determines that its sales will not be very large.

In recent years, Lotus sports cars have begun to appear at major auto shows in China and have attracted many fans. The soft-top sports car Elise and the super sports car Esprit are particularly popular< /p>

3. Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche, the founder of Porsche, had already invented the electric wheel motor when he was 24 years old (1899). At the exhibition, Porsche has become famous all over the world. Porsche cars have distinctive characteristics, such as Beetle-like shape, rear-mounted engine and excellent performance, which quickly made it a well-known car. At the Frankfurt International Auto Show in 1963, the Porsche 911 was displayed. This design still has a wide market today. Its body designer is Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry Porsche. Porsche has the rear gearbox chassis and V-8 engine type 928, the new technology type 955, and the new model with electronics. The adjusted four-wheel drive system and the 911 Carrera 4 without a lift body are the most important developments in recent years.

Porsche is a famous German automobile company. It was built in Stuttgart in 1930 by Professor Ferdinand Porsche. Ferdinand Porsche is a famous designer renowned in the world of automobiles. In the mid-1930s, he designed the precursor to the globally popular Beetle sedan for the German Volkswagen Company. His son Ferry Porsche inherited his father's business and continued to develop it. Porsche is famous in the world's automotive industry for producing high-end sports cars. The company's logo adopts the emblem of the city of Stuttgart. In the center of the coat of arms is a horse, with the words STUTTGART (Stuttgart) marked on the upper part. Historically, Stuttgart was the birthplace of famous horses as early as the 16th century. The upper left and lower right of the Porsche logo are antler patterns, indicating that the place was also a hunting place.

The yellow stripes on the upper right and lower left are the color of mature wheat ears, which means fertile land and the happiness it brings to people, while the red symbolizes people's wisdom.

4. Lamborghini

Ferruccio Lamborghini (Ferruccio Lamborghini), the creator of Lamborghini supercar, is a car giant who wears a mysterious veil. The most elusive geek in the world of sports car manufacturing continues to create unpredictable mysteries of life.

April 28, 1916, is memorable for all Lamborghini enthusiasts. Its founder, Freiken Lamborghini, was born on this day in Bologna, an important town in northern Italy. ) in the neighboring city of Ferrara. Fricken Lamborghini spent his childhood in the countryside. He was strongly attracted by the farm machinery and equipment that could be seen everywhere in the countryside, and he determined to become a mechanic. His parents’ support added fuel to his passion for Lamborghini. Before entering the Italian Air Force, Lamborghini first entered the Mechanical School in Bologna, where he received the most formal and rigorous training. This period of learning later proved to be invaluable.

At the end of World War II, Lamborghini was captured by the Allied forces and imprisoned on the beautiful island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea. After his release, Lamborghini returned to his hometown of Ferrara, where he worked on converting military vehicles into agricultural vehicles. At the time, many thought Lamborghini was taking a risk, but his risk later proved successful. In 1948, Lamborghini purchased an agricultural vehicle processing workshop and produced tractors here.

After the war, Italy was in urgent need of agricultural machinery and vehicles, so Lamborghini accumulated a large fortune, which also allowed him to buy Ferrari sports cars as much as he wanted. At the age of 32, Lamborghini modified the Ferrari Topolino 500cc sports car to 750cc and participated in the world-famous MILLE MGILA cross-country race. Although Lamborghini withdrew midway due to mechanical reasons, this did not diminish the interest of onlookers in Lamborghini. After that, letters inviting Lamborghini to help improve Ferrari came flooding in.

5. Maserati

The Maserati Automobile Company has a long history. Four brothers of the Maserati family established the Maserati company in Colonna, Italy in 1914 and produced the first car in 1926. Car Tipo26, founder Afur Maserati went into battle, personally drove the Tipo26 car to participate in car competitions and won awards.

Since then, the Maserati family has successively designed and produced multiple models of cars, participating in international car competitions and winning many awards, which has impressed the world. After belonging to Fiat in 1993, it focused on exploring the international market. Currently, Maserati's main market is Europe (60%), of which Italy accounts for the majority, Japan (22%), and other countries and regions (18%).

6. Aston Martin

Aston Martin was originally a British luxury sedan and sports car manufacturer. Built in 1913, the founders were Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. The company is located in Newport, England, and its automobile production is now a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company in the United States.

Martin is a wealthy racing driver and Bamford is an engineer. In 1913, the two teamed up to start manufacturing high-end racing cars. The company's name at the time was Martin Bamford Company. In 1914, they produced their first car. Martin once drove his own racing car to win the mountain car race held on Aston Clinton Mountain. To commemorate his victory, in 1923 Martin changed the name of the company and its products to Aston Martin. Victory brought honor but not profit, and the company performed poorly and was resold repeatedly. (David Brown's first two letters of his first name and last name) named the company's cars, a naming method that continues to this day. In the 1960s, Aston Martin had a glorious period, but the good times did not last long, and the company soon fell into trouble and was heavily in debt. In 1972 David Brown had to sell the company he had owned for 25 years. After that, the company began to change owners frequently. In 1987, the company was finally taken over by Ford of the United States, which acquired 75% of the shares. In July 1994, it acquired the remaining shares. Since then, Aston Martin has become a Ford brand. one.

Aston Martin sports cars mostly use front-mounted V8 or inline 6-cylinder engines. They have powerful horsepower, superior aerodynamic performance, and excellent acceleration performance. They can accelerate from a standstill to a speed of 100 kilometers per hour. , only takes 6 seconds.

The racing cars produced by the company are very famous in the international racing world and have won many international car competition championships. It is reported that the annual output is only about 800 vehicles, and most of them are handmade, but the workmanship is exquisite and the quality is reliable. Therefore, Aston Martin has always followed Rolls-Royce and Bentley in the British car rankings. Even the cheapest Aston Martin DB7 has an international market price of no less than US$130,000. The most famous models of the Aston Martin brand include: DB2, DB6, DB7, Vantage, etc. Among them, the Aston Martin DB7 is the company's flagship product, with a strong British classical temperament.

The Alston Martin car logo is a flying roc with the English words "Alston" and "Martin" respectively. It means that the company is like Dapeng, with sprinting speed and lofty ambitions. Aston Martin will remind people of the legendary story of James Bond 007, and it seems that Aston Martin's success is attributed to him.

7. Spyker

As an old factory with a history of more than a hundred years, Spyker has always maintained the brand's unique style. All the sports cars they produce are hand-made, and many indicators adopt F1 standards. As a well-known manufacturer of top-end luxury sports cars, the noble sports cars manufactured by Spyker are completely customized according to the needs of customers. In 2005, Spyker produced 100 vehicles per year. Not only are they only produced for a limited number of distinguished car owners, a reflection of their success value, but each model is also the crystallization of an out-of-print collection. That is, Spyker will launch a new car every year, and each model will be sold immediately when global production reaches 500 units. stop. Spyker's target is the most high-end users in the sports car market. These customers are mainly concentrated in the United States, Western Europe, the Middle East, Greater China, and some smaller wealthy countries, such as Switzerland and Monaco.

Main car series: Spyker C12 LaTurbie

In 1898, carriage manufacturers JACOBUS and HENDRIK-JAN SPIKE ( The two brothers SPIJKER built their first car using a Mercedes-Benz engine in Amsterdam. Their excellent body manufacturing technology immediately won them applause. In the same year, as a tribute to the upcoming coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Spike manufactured the famous golden ceremonial carriage, which is still in use today. From that time on, the Spyker brothers entered a turning point in their careers: fully investing Spyker into automobile manufacturing. In order to better adapt to foreign markets, they changed the "ij" in the middle of Spijker to "y", and the company name was changed to Spijker from then on.

8. Bugatti

Bugatti produces sports cars and travel cars and limousines for nearly 47 years, and is still considered by many to be the most remarkable automobile of its era. Ettore Bugatti's company went bankrupt in 1956, less than ten years after his death. Before that, they had produced 8,000 cars, some with racing qualities that are still unforgettable. About 35 years later, the Bugatti company returned to the world. A wealthy Italian car dealer named Romano Artioli purchased the rights to use the Bugatti brand, allowing this sacred brand to once again start producing popular cars.

To commemorate the 110th anniversary of Ettore’s birth, Artioli launched the EB110 named after him. It is the fastest and one of the most expensive production cars the world has ever built. In 1995, after producing 126 units of the supercar-like 550-horsepower EB, Bugatti closed its doors again, leaving about a dozen cars in various stages of assembly on the production line until the company's creditors decided what to do with them. they.

In 1998, the German Volkswagen Company purchased the trademark rights of Bugatti, and the Bugatti brand entered a new stage amidst much lamentation. People thought Volkswagen's idea of ??rebuilding the ill-fated brand was unrealistic and would ultimately fail again. In 2001, Bugatti launched the Veyron 16.4 concept car and announced that it would be the fastest and most powerful car in the world.

After many years, the Veyron finally made its debut and entered the public eye.

Bugatti's new president, Dr. Bscher, was determined to make Veyron available again. With the help of chief engineer Schreiber, he led the company to conduct a large-scale redesign of more than 85% of Veyron's parts.

The result was that the new Veyron, named after Pierre Veyron, who had driven the Bugatti 57 to win the 1939 Le Mans crown, was exactly what he promised people: the most powerful and fastest Speed, the most expensive car ever built.

It is difficult to accurately describe the process of driving this car, because there is no model of the same level as it as a reference. Who can drive a car with 1001 horsepower, a speed of 407 kilometers per hour, and a value of Can you tell everyone clearly about the European supercar costing 1 million euros?

For example, as a car, the price of this car is astonishing (at the time of writing this article, the price of this car is 1.5 million Canadian dollars). The price of the best-selling Honda Civic in Canada is only one percent of that of the Veyron. Even in Mount Vancouver or Toronto in North America, $1.5 million can buy a very nice house, a yacht or enjoy retirement life in Boca Raton.

But for those who can spend more than $100 million on a house, $200 million on a yacht or more than 20 million to travel to the moon on a Russian spacecraft, the value of the Veyron It is well in line with society’s tolerance. After all, it's value for money.

Maybe many people will openly question whether it is necessary to build a car with such strong power and super speed, but maybe they don't understand or understand that the Veyron is actually a technological achievement. Human beings have always been striving to travel faster, fly higher, design more exquisitely, and so on.

The Veyron has advanced automobiles to a new level. Even if a company has what we think of as unlimited resources, it will be difficult to produce a Veyron car.

Advantages: The 1,001-horsepower W16 is the No. 1 sports car. 16:4 means 16 cylinders and 4 turbochargers. (The BMW 760 only has one turbocharger)

Disadvantages: The price is definitely No. 1. (There is only one of them in the UK, and Beckham bought it for 750,000 pounds!)

9. BMW

BMW Motor Co., Ltd. is the world's largest manufacturer of luxury cars and motorcycles. It is a car company famous for its high-performance engines and is ranked among the top 20 car companies in the world. The company was founded in 1916 by Karl Rapp and Max Fritz. Formerly known as BMW Aircraft AG, it was officially named BMW AG in August 1918. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, it has 50,000 employees. The annual output of automobiles is about 500,000 units, and the annual output of motorcycles is about 30,000 units.

BMW Motor Company started its business by producing aircraft engines, so the blue on the logo is the sky and the white is the propeller. The symmetrical blue and white mark is also the state emblem of Bavaria, where the company is located. Like Mercedes-Benz, BMW pursues high-quality, high-performance and high-tech cars. Its car output is not high, but it enjoys almost the same reputation as Mercedes-Benz in the world's automotive industry and users. The acceleration and high-speed performance of BMW cars are among the best in the world's automobile industry, so BMW cars are the first choice for police cars in various countries. BMW's motorcycles are the most expensive in the international market, even more than luxury cars, with prices as high as around US$30,000. Because BMW products are designed in a racing style, BMW cars often steal the show in world racing events.

BMW currently has subsidiaries and production plants in 13 countries, including 10 subsidiaries in China. The automobile products sold include BMW's new 3, new 5, new 7 and new 8 series luxury sedans. BMW 850i is the latest and most luxurious sedan.

10. Mercedes-Benz

More than a hundred years have passed since Mercedes-Benz built the first world-recognized car. The car has already passed its 100th birthday. Over the past 100 years, with the vigorous development of the automobile industry, many automobile manufacturers have emerged, some of which were prominent for a while, but in the end they were just short-lived. So far, there are only three or four stores that have survived through ups and downs, and the only one with a century-old history is Mercedes-Benz.

The Mercedes-Benz car company we are talking about now was not founded by Mr. Benz alone. It was a collaboration between two automobile giants. They were the originators of automobile inventions, Carl Friedrich Benz and Gottlieb Daimler. In 1926, the two major automobile companies merged into one to form Daimler-Benz. Daimler was long gone by this time. And Benz is already 82 years old. However, for some unknown reason, these two great car inventors never met each other even though they were in two small cities only 80km apart. It became a great pity in the history of automobiles. But their successors lived up to expectations and carried forward the business started by the two great men, making Mercedes-Benz the world's first-class car company.

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