World Top Ranking Car Companies(6-10)

Rank 6:-

Nissan Motor Company (Japan)

Sub Category Ranking

Datsun Division Indonesia, India, Russia

Infiniti Subsidiary Global, but not in Japan, South America and Africa

Infiniti Performance Line Division Global

Nissan Division Global

Nismo Division Global

Total Production: – 4,631,673

Cars Production: – 3,581,445

LCV: – 998,417

HCV: – 51,811

HEAVY BUS: —-

Details:-

Nissan Motor Company Founded on 26^th December 1933 by family members by making a new car of that time its founders include Masujiro Hashimoto Jenjiro Den Rokruro Aoyama Its headquarters are located in Nisi-ku,Yokohama Japan now a day its CEO was Carlos Ghosn .Recently Nissan entered two way alliance with Renault S.A by holding its 15% shares

Rank 7:-

PSA Peugeot Citroën S.A. (France)

Sub Category Ranking

Citroën Subsidiary Global, except North America,

South Asia

Peugeot Subsidiary Global, except North America,

South Asia

Total Production: – 3,582,410

Cars Production: – 3,161,955

LCV: – 420,455

HCV: —-

HEAVY BUS: —-

Details:-

PSA Peugeot Citroen is French company having headquarters in16th arrondissement, Paris, France .It serve wide area of world except North America and South Asia which seems to be strange for top ranking company it is founded in 1976 as Peugeot S.A acquired 38.2% shares of Citroen and later to 89.95% Philippe Varin is its CEO and 30.3% of its shares are still owned by Peugeot Family according to last year’s data they have 209,019 working employees

Rank 8:-

Honda Motor Company (Japan)

Sub Category Ranking

Acura Division North America, East Asia, except

Japan

Honda Division Global

Total Production: – 6,616,858

Cars Production: – 6,118,221

LCV: – 469,185

HCV: – 21,296

HEAVY BUS: – 8,156

Details:-

Honda The continuously growing automobile company having interesting history  founded by a person having great interest in automobiles .Soichiro Honda started his career as mechanic at the Art Shokai garage, later on he started his company to provide piston ring to Toyota but lost contract due to its poor quality than visiting engineering university and various factories around Japan he didn’t graduate but again started producing pistons which are acceptable by Toyota Its Founded as a cars company on 24 September 1948 with the Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa its headquarters are located at Minato, Tokyo, Japan its largest Motorcycle manufacturer since 1959 and  2^nd largest combustion engine manufacturer now Takanobu Ito Is its CEO

Rank 9:-

Renault S.A. (France)

Sub Category Ranking

Dacia Subsidiary Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa

Renault (cars) Division Global, except North America

Renault Samsung Subsidiary Asia, South America

Total Production: – 2,825,089

Cars Production: – 2,443,040

LCV: – 382,049

HCV: —-

HEAVY BUS: —-

Details:-

Renault was established by young Engineers as the developed  many models before creating the company Louis Renault ,Marcel Renault and Fernand Renault started there company on 25^th February 1899,  Renault mostly develop car’s and commercial vehicles French Government Owns its 15 Percent share now they are investing in Electrical Vehicles by investing over 4 billion euros over it, Most famous cars of Renault motors are Renault Clio and Renault Megane, now there chairman is Carlos Ghosn who is striving hard to grow companies rank

Rank 10:-

Suzuki Motor Corporation (Japan)

Sub Category Ranking

Marti Suzuki Subsidiary India, Middle East,

South America

Pak Suzuki Motors Subsidiary Pakistan

Magyar Suzuki Subsidiary Hungary, Europe

Suzuki Division Global

Total Production: – 2,725,899

Cars Production: – 2,337,237

LCV: – 388,662

HCV: —-

HEAVY BUS: —-

Details:-

In 1909 Michio Suzuki the founder of Suzuki motors founded Suzuki Loom Works in small village due to great success in it he started Suzuki Motors in 1937 there vehicles are too much famous in south Asia mostly Suzuki motors develop cars less than 1000CC they also develop Motorcycles, Engines, Head Quarter of Suzuki Motors was present in Hamamatsu, Shizuoaka Japan and Chairman Suzuki motors who was planning to install another engines making factory was Osamu Suzuki

World Top Ranking Car Companies(1-5)

Rank 1:-

General Motors Company (United States)

Sub Category Ranking

Buick Division North America, China, Israel, and

& Taiwan

Cadillac Division North America, Europe, Asia,

& Middle East, Africa

Chevrolet Division Global, except Australia,

& New Zealand

GMC Division North America, Middle East

Holden Subsidiary Australia, New Zealand

Opel Subsidiary Global, except North America and

United Kingdom

Vauxhall Subsidiary United Kingdom

Total Production: – 9,146,340

Cars Production: – 6,867,465

LCV: – 2,272,585

HCV: – 6,290

HEAVY BUS: —-

Details:-

General Motors was Established on 16 September 1908 now world largest auto maker is Founded by William C.Durant Its headquarters are In USA Detroit Michigan United States now they 202,000 employees and this company is working in 156 different countries There Director Daniel Akerson maintained its standard so by no of user and by most production units working GM is at No.1

Rank 2:-

Volkswagen Group AG (Germany)

Sub Category Ranking

Audi Subsidiary Global

Bentley Subsidiary Global

Bugatti Subsidiary Global

Lamborghini Subsidiary Global

Scania Subsidiary Global

Subsidiary Europe, South America, North Africa,

& Middle East

Škoda Subsidiary Global, except North America,

Japan and South Africa

Volkswagen  Subsidiary Global

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Subsidiary Global

Total Production: – 8,157,058

Cars Production: – 8,157,058

LCV: —-

HCV: —-

HEAVY BUS: —

Details:-

Volkswagen was Founded on 28 May 1927 by Ferdinand Porsche under Nazis Of Germany it’s one of those top companies,  Martic Winterkorn Chairman of Volkswagen make it Possible to beat Toyota like old and strong company before world war it mostly develop luxury vehicles and after World War 2 heavily bombed factory captured by American now its headquarters are in Wolfsburg Germany

Rank 3:-

Toyota Motor Corporation (Japan)

Sub Category Ranking

Daihatsu Subsidiary Global, except North America

And Australia

Hino Subsidiary Asia Pacific, North America and

& South America

Lexus Division Global, except Iran and Caucasus

Scion Division North America

Toyota Division Global, except Iran and Caucasus

Total Production: – 8,050,181 4,954

Cars Production: – 6,793,714

LCV: – 1,037,138

HCV: – 214,375

HEAVY BUS: – 4,954

Details:-

With Number of Up and Down remained top company of early 2000s now present at No.3 The company developed in 1933 by Toyota Loom work its subsidiary by Kiichiro Toyoda Who traveled in different parts of world it develop all type of Cars, Buses, Wagons etc. now a days it is striving hard to get back its rank its faces loss because of problem in accelerator model of its eight models

Rank 4:-

Hyundai Automotive Group (South Korea)

Sub Category Ranking

Hyundai Division Global, except Mexico

Total Production: – 6,616,858

Cars Production: – 6,118,221

LCV: – 469,185

HCV: – 21,296

HEAVY BUS: – 8,156

Details:-

Name of Hyundai is taken from Korean word meaning modernity it have many of working products including steel to defense equipment its automobile industries is started in 1967 after 20 years of its function its Fate is known as Broken Up Its founded by Chung Ju-Yung now its headquarters is located in Seoul, South Korea its serving in all parts of world it normally prefer to develop large vehicles instead of small cars

Rank 5:-

Ford Motor Company (United States)

Sub Category Ranking

Ford Division Global

Lincoln Division North America, Middle East, Japan,

South Korea

Mercury Division North America, Middle East, Japan

Total Production: – 4,873,450

Cars Production: – 2,639,735

LCV: – 2,166,925

HCV: – 66,790

HEAVY BUS:-

Details:-

Favorites of Thousands Ford Motor was established on 16 June 1903 By Henry Ford the company sales normal common vehicle by the brand name of Ford and luxury cars by brand name of Lincoln .Its headquarters are located in Dearborn Michigan United States now a day its chairman William C. Ford Executive Chairman, grandson of Henry Ford the founder striving hard to provide best quality and increase production

Cooper Car Company

Full name	Cooper Car Company
Base	Surbiton, Surrey,United Kingdom
Founder(s)	Charles Cooper  John Cooper
Noted drivers	Stirling Moss  Maurice Trintignant  Jack Brabham  Bruce McLaren  John Surtees  Jochen Rindt  Pedro Rodríguez
Formula One World Championship career
Debut	1950 Monaco Grand Prix
Races competed	129
Constructors' Championships	2 (1959, 1960)
Drivers' Championships	2 (1959, 1960)
Race victories	16
Pole positions	11
Fastest laps	14
Final race	1969 Monaco Grand Prix

                           

The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage inSurbiton, Surrey, England in 1946. Through the 1950s and early 1960s, they reached auto racing's highest levels as their rear-engined, single-seat cars altered the face of Formula One and the Indianapolis 500, and their Mini Cooper dominated Rally racing. Thanks in part to Cooper's legacy, Britain remains the home of a thriving racing industry, and the Cooper name lives on in the Cooper versions of the Mini (BMW) production cars that are still built in England but are now owned and marketed by BMW.

The first cars built by the Coopers were single-seat 500cc Formula Three racing cars driven by John Cooper and Eric Brandon and powered by a JAP motorcycle engine. Since materials were in short supply immediately after World War II, the prototypes were constructed by joining two old Fiat Topolino front-ends together. According to John Cooper, the stroke of genius that would make the Coopers an automotive legend—the location of the engine behind the driver—was merely a practical matter at the time. Because the car was powered by a motorcycle engine, they believed it was more convenient to have the engine in the back, driving a chain.

Called the Cooper 500, this car's success in hillclimbs and on track, including Eric winning the first post war motor race at Gransden Lodge Airfield, quickly created demand from other drivers (including, over the years, Stirling Moss, Peter Collins, Jim Russell, Ivor Bueb, Ken Tyrrell and Bernie Ecclestone) and led to the establishment of the Cooper Car Company to build more. The business grew by providing an inexpensive entry to motorsport for seemingly every aspiring young British driver, and the company became the world's first and largest post-war, specialist manufacturer of racing cars for sale to privateers.

Cooper built over 300 F3 cars and dominated the category, winning 64 out of 78 major races between 1951 and 1954. This volume of construction was unique and enabled the company to grow into the senior categories; it was with a modified Cooper 500 chassis, a T12 model, that Cooper had its first taste of top-tier racing when Harry Schell qualified for the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix. Though Schell retired in the first lap, this marked the first appearance of a rear-engined racer at a Grand Prix event since the end of WWII.

The front-engined Formula Two Cooper Bristol model was introduced in 1952. Various iterations of this design were driven by a number of legendary drivers – among them Juan Manuel Fangio and Mike Hawthorn – and furthered the company's growing reputation by appearing in Grand Prix races, which at the time were run to F2 regulations. It wasn't until the company began building rear-engined sports cars in 1955 that they really became aware of the benefits of having the engine behind the driver. Based on the 500cc cars and powered by a modified Coventry Climax fire-pump engine, these cars were called "Bobtails." With the center of gravity closer to the middle of the car, they found it was less liable to spins and much more effective at putting the power down to the road, so they decided to build a single-seater version and began entering it in Formula 2 races.

Rear-engined revolution [edit]

Jack Brabham raised some eyebrows when he took sixth place at the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix in a rear-engined Formula 1 Cooper. When Stirling Moss won the 1958 Argentine Grand Prix in Rob Walker's privately entered Cooper and Maurice Trintignant duplicated the feat in the next race at Monaco, the racing world was stunned and a rear-engined revolution had begun. The next year, 1959, Brabham and the Cooper works team became the first to win the Formula One World Championship in a rear-engined car. Both team and driver repeated the feat in 1960, and every World Champion since has been sitting in front of his engine.

The little known designer behind the car was Owen Maddock, who was employed by Cooper Car Company.^[1] Maddock was known as 'The Beard' by his workmates, and 'Whiskers' to Charles Cooper. Maddock was a familiar figure in the drivers' paddock of the 1950s in open-neck shirt and woolly jumper and a prime force behind the rise of British racing cars to their dominant position in the 1960s. Describing how the revolutionary rear-engined Cooper chassis came to be, Maddock explained "I'd done various schemes for the new car which I'd shown to Charlie Cooper, He kept saying 'Nah, Whiskers, that's not it, try again.' Finally, I got so fed up I sketched a frame in which every tube was bent, meant just as a joke. I showed it to Charlie and to my astonishment he grabbed it and said: 'That's it!' " Maddock later pioneered one of the first designs for a honeycomb monocoque stressed skin composite chassis, and helped develop Cooper's C5S racing gearbox.

Brabham took one of the Championship-winning Cooper T53 "Lowline" to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for a test in 1960, then entered the famous 500-mile race in a larger, longer and offset car based on the 1960 F1 design, the unique Type T54. Arriving at the Speedway 5 May 1961, the "funny" little car from Europe was mocked by the other teams, but it ran as high as third and finished ninth. It took a few years, but the Indianapolis establishment gradually realized the writing was on the wall and the days of their front-engined roadsters were numbered. Beginning with Jim Clark, who drove a rear-engined Lotus in 1965, every winner of the Indianapolis 500 has had the engine in the back. The revolution begun by the little chain-driven Cooper 500 was complete.

Cooper Grand Prix results

The table below details the complete World Championship Grand Prix results of the Formula One constructor Cooper between 1950 and 1969. It includes results from the works team as well as privately entered cars. Since the Constructor's Championship points were awarded to chassis-engine combinations rather than entrants, the table is sorted first by engine manufacturer then by entrant.

Mini Legacy [edit]

As the company's fortunes in Formula One declined, however, the John Cooper-conceived Mini Cooper – introduced in 1961 as a development of the Alec Issigonis-designed British Motor Corporation Mini with a more powerful engine, new brakes and a distinctive livery – continued to dominate in Saloon car and rally races throughout the 1960s, winning many championships and the 1964, 1965 and 1967 Monte Carlo Rallies.

Several different Cooper-marked versions of the Mini and various Cooper conversion kits have been, and continue to be, marketed by various companies. The current BMW MINI, in production since 2001, has Cooper and Cooper S models and a number of John Cooper Works tuner packages.

Coopers Garage [edit]

On 1 April 1968, John Cooper leased the building, 243 Ewell Road,^[2] to the Metropolitan Police and the local Traffic Division (V Victor) moved in. They would stay there for the next twenty-five years and 'TDV' would become one of the busier police garages. In August 1968, they were supplied with the two Mini Coopers index numbers PYT767F and PYT768F. The centre boss of the steering wheel was replace by a speaker and microphone and a PTT transmitter switch, was added to the steering column. The sight of a six-foot bobby getting into the mini greatly amused the locals. The vehicles were trialled for a number of months, but no orders were placed for other garages.

References [edit]

• John Cooper Works
• John Cooper - A Very British Marque, A Very British Man
• John Cooper: The Man Who Beat Italia
• Cooper profile at The 500 Owners Association
• John Cooper (1977). The Grand Prix Carpetbaggers: The Autobiography of John Cooper. Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-03081-9
• Cooper Cars, by Doug Nye, 1983, Osprey Publishing, 2003, Motorbooks International