Established in 2007, Fisker is a brand born to be “the first truly environmental friendly exciting car company,” per one of its founders, Henrik Fisker. Not as well-known is co-founder Bernhard Koehler, who was the other half of Fisker Coachbuild, which began in 2005.

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Born in 1881, Ettore Bugatti is the founder and creator of the Bugatti brand, well known for its Veyron model, which was voted “The Greatest Car of the Past 20 Years” by BBC’s Top Gear viewers. Even in the early 1900s, Bugatti’s name quickly became synonymous with speed, power, and incredible capabilities.

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The last Pontiac car was rolled off the Orion Township plant line on January of 2010. Financial issues and internal struggles within General Motors caused the automobile behemoth to discontinue Pontiac as it had done with Oldsmobile in 2004. It was a fairly unassuming, white G6 sedan that ushered out one of the most distinctly American car brands ever created, but this inauspicious ending doesn’t mean that Pontiac’s story isn’t a fascinating and noteworthy one.

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Suzuki’s story begins with Japan’s massive silk industry, which was quite a lucrative business back in the 1900s. It was around this time that Michio Suzuki, the founder of the Suzuki corporation, established the Suzuki Loom Manufacturing Company in Hamamatsu, Japan. Michio was born the son of poor cotton farmers and spent much of his early life toiling in the fields before he began working in a loom factory where he studied how looms were designed.

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