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Also Known As automobile industry

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Robotic arms and workers in protective gear assemble a car body on an automobile manufacturing line in Russia, surrounded by machinery and cables.
Black and white publicity photo of the No. 9017 Studebaker Electric Trap, an early electric car with large spoked wheels and open carriage-style seats, circa 1905.
Ford Model Ts
Henry Ford
William C. Durant
Walter Chrysler smiling and wearing a light-colored fedora, suit, and tie in an undated black-and-white portrait.
jeep
American Motors Corporation: Rambler
assembly line: automobile
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Marc Tarpenning
American entrepreneur
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Martin Eberhard
American entrepreneur
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John F. Dodge
American industrialist
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Horace E. Dodge
American industrialist
Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Motors, smiles while wearing a blue suit, white shirt, and patterned tie at the Geneva International Motor Show.
Ratan Tata
Indian businessman
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Jürgen Schrempp
German businessman
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Louis Schweitzer
French government official and businessman
Sergio Marchionne
Sergio Marchionne
Canadian-Italian businessman
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Kawamoto Nobuhiko
Japanese businessman
Giovanni Agnelli
Giovanni Agnelli
Italian industrialist [1921–2003]
Honda Soichiro
Honda Soichiro
Japanese businessman
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Donald Gresham Stokes, Baron Stokes
British automobile executive
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Umberto Agnelli
Italian industrialist
Clement Studebaker
Clement Studebaker
American manufacturer
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Ohno Taiichi
Japanese businessman
Opel, Fritz von
Fritz von Opel
German industrialist
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Fred Fisher
American manufacturer