BMW Motor Company, Bavarian Machinery Factory AG (German: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, or BBMW Front MW), BMW is one of the world-famous automobile companies and is also considered as the leader of high-end automobile production. BMW was founded in 19 16, and its headquarters is in Munich, Germany. In the past 80 years, it has developed from the initial aircraft engine factory to a world-famous enterprise group that mainly produces luxury cars, aircraft engines, off-road vehicles and motorcycles, ranking among the top 20 automobile enterprises in the world. BMW is also translated as "Bayer". BMW's predecessor was the Aircraft Factory, which was established on March 7, 2006. 1965438. At first, it was famous for making streamlined two-wing reconnaissance planes. The company's names are BFW (Bayrische Flug Zeug-Work) and Pavania Aircraft Factory. The company was founded by Goustein Otto, whose father was a famous four-stroke internal combustion engine.
2 Honda
Honda Co., Ltd. (ホンだ) is the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world, and its automobile output and scale are also one of the top ten automobile manufacturers in the world. Founded in 1948, the founder is the legendary Honda Ichiro. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, with a total of 6,543,800 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.
3 Harley
1903, William Harley and Davidson founded Harley-Davidson Automobile Company in Milwaukee. /kloc-in the past 0/00 years, Harley-Davidson Locomotive Company has experienced the baptism of war, economic recession, depression, strike, buyout and repurchase, foreign competition and market changes, but it has withstood all tests. Harley-Davidson has not slowed down its development.
For a century, Harley's philosophy has been freedom avenue, primitive power and beautiful times. The image of Milwaukee Motorcycle Team has taken root in the hearts of fans all over the world. They are fanatically loyal to V-type twin-cylinder locomotives and the companies that make them.
The company was nominated by Forbes magazine as "the best company of the year" and one of the 400 best companies, and Harley ranked among the top ten most famous brands in the United States.
4 Yamaha
Torakusu Yamaha was born. He trained as a watchmaker and played the organ for the first time in the mid-1930s.
1890 used Japanese musical instruments to make pianos and organs. As a musical instrument manufacturer, the origin of the company is still reflected in its logo, which describes three interrelated tuning forks. It became the largest musical instrument manufacturer in the world.
19 16 founder died.
1955 After World War II, President Kawakami Ichi of Japan realized that if we want to rebuild, the country needs to undertake transportation (more than the piano! ) The first Yamaha motorcycle product was Xia-1 motorcycle. This is a 125cc group, two-stroke, single-cylinder streetcar, after RT 125 (such as BSA bantam and Harley Hummer). Mode), also known as "Red Dragonfly", was so successful that it adopted Yamaha Engine Company, a subsidiary of Yamaha.
1957 250 cubic centimeter twin-cylinder Julia-1 is an improved version of Adler, another German bicycle.
1958 The first Yamaha motorcycle was sold in the United States by Cooper Motor Company, an independent dealer. The models are Julia-1(250cc group, two-stroke and double-cylinder streetcar) and MF- 1 (motorcycle, two-stroke, single-cylinder stepping streetcar-).
1959 tuning of Yahoo YDS- 1 interface subsequent version of Julia-1 double cradle frame motor (the earlier version was built on steel spine). In Yahoo YDS- 1, the pattern of Yamaha's two-stroke twin cities has been established in the next 20 years.
1960 Yamaha international company began to sell motorcycles in the United States.
In 1964, Phil read out his first world champion to Yamaha, with a level of 250cc.
5 Suzuki
Suzuki is a Japanese surname. Suzuki Company was founded in 1920, and began to produce motorcycles in 1952, and automobiles in 1955. Suzuki Motor Company (Suzuki) was established in 1954, mainly producing mini-cars. Suzuki is also a member of Toyota Group, and General Motors holds a 0/0% stake in Suzuki/KLOC. Suzuki Motor Company is the first company to successfully cooperate with China Automobile Company. The "S" in Suzuki's trademark pattern is the first capital letter of Suzuki, which gives people the feeling of infinite strength and symbolizes the infinite development of Suzuki Motor Company. Suzuki makes unremitting efforts to establish a lifelong trust relationship with customers by providing quality products to customers all over the world, providing quality services to customers who use Suzuki products.
6 Ducati
1926, Ducati brothers set up a small electrical appliance company in the Italian suburb of Bologna. 1946, their career has made a breakthrough. At that time, it was popular in Italy to equip bicycles with a 48CC four-stroke engine called CUCCIOLO. Italians have a soft spot for it. By 1956, 250,000 such engines had been sold in Italy.
In 1950s, Ducati produced a more powerful bicycle-Marianna-98cc single cylinder engine. Since then, the famous Ducati engineer FABIO TAGLIONI has continuously developed other models. TAGLIONI's biggest innovation is the development of DESMODROMI I vacuum gear. To this day, DESMODROMI I is used in every car produced in Ducati.
7 Kawasaki
1896, Kawasaki Akizo was established. His company will be regarded as a well-known enterprise by Kawasaki Heavy Industries of Japan. As time goes by, the main fields of active companies will be shipbuilding, railway vehicles, power plants and electricity. Motorcycles will become a small part of this comprehensive industrial giant.
1969, Kawasaki Dave Symonds awarded the first world champion. In the first half of Kawasaki's excellent 125cc class (also known as Mach III), a 500CC three-cylinder two-stroke was released. Although its control blades are somewhat insufficient, this car is a very powerful day. This is the fastest quarterly production of bicycle miles. Established Mach Kawasaki's reputation in the United States, (in particular, it made a powerful, somewhat antisocial motorcycle! Word of mouth) A wonderful car produced by H 1R has also been released-a super 500CC car. In the next few years, larger and smaller versions will be released in the first half of the year, including Middle One (250cc group), Middle Two (350cc) and H(750cc). They were successful in the market, and the production of H2 receptor 750cc racing car was also successful on the track, but Kawasaki knew that the two-day stroke streetcar was coming to an end. The company planned to launch a four-stroke model, but it was shocked by the arrival of Honda 750. Kawasaki returned to the drawing board.
8 KTM
KTM is an Austrian motorcycle manufacturer, but its strength is off-road motorcycles, and it has won prizes in many off-road competitions because of its excellent performance. In Dhaka, there are often spectacular scenes where the top five drivers are driving KTM chariots. In 2007, there were two teams of sponsors in Dakar, one was the famous Repsol. KTM driver Coma, the other is a French sponsor Gaul. KTM team, and many other grass-roots drivers chose KTM cars, which shows that KTM's performance in off-road is well known.
In recent years, KTM is the only motorcycle team in Dakar that can "seek defeat without winning". KTM was born in Martigufen, Austria on 1934. Different from the Japanese team, KTM participated in the 20th Dakar race for the first time with 1998, from the second place to the twelfth place. In 2004, KTM won 65,438+07 world champions, with a total of 65,438+004 champions. As of 2005, KTM has won the motorcycle championship for five consecutive years. There are several teams supported by ktm, and the competition mainly comes from within, so there is little suspense in winning the championship.
9 piaggio
Piaggio Group is the largest motorcycle manufacturer in Europe and the first scooter VESPA manufacturer in the world.
In addition to piaggio brand, Italian piaggio Group also owns many world-famous motorcycle brands, such as Vespa, Gilera, Derbi, Moto Guzzi and Aprilia. Its two-wheeled motorcycle production and sales volume ranks 65,438+0 in Europe. At present, piaggio has dozens of factories around the world with 6 employees.
Piaggio is an important industrial group, which owns a series of products such as scooters, mopeds, bicycles and even auto parts, as well as commercial small cars of Ape series. In the first year of 1990s, piaggio started a new strategic production and technology development plan. It has been more than a century since 1884 was founded in piaggio. Its output of two-wheeled vehicles and tricycles has occupied the first place in Europe and the third place in the world. Regardless of the glorious past, the developing future and the unknown future, piaggio will go all out to create more abundant resources for the society.
10 Apulia
APRILIA Spa was established in 1962. Registered capital: 3 1.460.000.00 Euro. Turnover/year (EUR): 539,000,000,000. Number of employees: 1600. Export: 299.800.000.00 Euro. Industry: Motorcycle and scooter manufacturers. Scope: Production, distribution and agency. Import and export countries/regions: Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa and Australia.
Aprilia is the second largest motorcycle and scooter manufacturer in Europe and the only non-Japanese motorcycle manufacturer. Its products range from 50 cubic centimeters to 65,438+0,000 cubic centimeters.
Under the leadership of Mr Beggio, Aprilia has become the benchmark of production organization, technology and design in the world motorcycle industry from a small bicycle manufacturer.
One made by MTT company in the United States is called YK2, which uses a helicopter engine. Any combustible liquid can be called this beast to start, and the speed can reach 400KM/H, and the Maifeng car dealership sells 4.8 million yuan.