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Monogram is an American brand and former manufacturing company of scale plastic models of cars, aircraft, spacecraft, ships, and military vehicles since the early 1950s. The company was formed by two former employees of Comet Kits, Jack Besser and Bob Reder. Mattel acquired Monogram in 1968, and the firm passed through various owners and was ...
A 1:43 scale East German Barkas Volkspolizei van by IST. The model is made in Shenzhen, China. The first model car made exactly to 1:43 scale seems to be French Dinky Toys No. 24R Peugeot 203, released in 1951, [1] but many diecast iron or plaster toys in the 1920s and 1930s were also made about the same size, though not as precision 'blueprint' reproductions.
Model Products Corporation. Model Products Corporation, usually known by its acronym, MPC, is an American brand and former manufacturing company of plastic scale model kits and pre-assembled promotional models of cars that were popular in the 1960s and 1970s. MPC's main competition was model kits made by AMT, Jo-Han, Revell, and Monogram.
U.S. Automobile Production Figures. Automobile experimentation and design in the US started a few years after Carl Benz patented and produced his original gasoline-powered motor car in 1886, and a handful of companies were producing them in the US by the turn of the century. The table below shows the annual unit volumes for the top US producers ...
Sports car (1970–1977), pony car (1979–1986), roadster (1991–1994) Bobcat: 1974 1980 1 Subcompact car, rebadged Ford Pinto. Sold in Canada since 1974, and in the United States since 1975 Grand Marquis: 1975 2011 3 Top-tier full-size car Monarch: 1975 1980 1 Compact near-luxury car Zephyr: 1978 1983 1 Compact car Topaz: 1984 1994 2 Compact ...
Benz Patent-Motorwagen. The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885 by the German Karl Benz, is widely regarded as the first practical modern automobile [ 1][ a] and was the first car put into production. [ 8] It was patented in January 1886 and unveiled in public later that year.
Previous Model Next Model Notes Type 1: 1889 1890 Type 2: The first car manufactured by Peugeot. Also known as the Serpollet Tricycle. [10] Type 2: 1890 1891 Type 1: Type 3: Type 3: 1891 1894 Type 2: Type 4: Type 4: 1892 1892 Type 3: Type 5: One-off car based on the Type 3 built to the specifications of Ali III ibn al-Husayn, then the Bey of ...
X290 AMG GT 4-Door Coupé, Executive Car, 5 door liftback (2019–present) W463 G-Class, mid-size luxury SUV (2018–2024) N293 EQC, fully electric compact SUV (2019–2023) W167 GLE, mid-size SUV (2019–present) W247 B-Class, subcompact MPV (2019–present) C118 CLA-Class, subcompact executive car (2019–present)