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Honda is to Acura as Toyota is to this luxury make founded in 1989. Its ES 300 model was its best-selling sedan in the 1990s. (Photo linked below with license plate and emblem redacted)

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This brand originally made tractors, but its namesake founder decided to focus on slightly faster modes of transportation instead to compete with the sports car establishment in the 1960s. Some of the earliest models include the 350GT and the Miura.

Based in Coventry, this luxury automobile manufacturer made a rather unsuccessful foray into Formula One from 2000–2004. Alongside Land Rover, it has been owned by Tata Motors since 2008, and its recent F-Type model was launched in 2012 as a sports car at the Paris Motor Show.

This car marque, manufactured by AvtoVAZ, is Russia's and Eastern Europe's most popular car. Models in this line include the Granta and Kalina.

Headquartered in Ingolstadt, Germany, this luxury auto manufacturer has been owned by Volkswagen Group since 1966 and has won eight of the last ten 24 Hours of Le Mans races. You've probably heard its popular advertising slogan "Truth in Engineering" a few times on television before.

After Nazi Germany took control of this manufacturer's facilities, its namesake industrialist starting producing trucks instead. Several bombardments at its Île Seguin facility on the Seine halted proceedings throughout the years of World War II, but this manufacturer went back to work in 1944 after the Liberation of Paris and has since produced models such as the Mégane, Clio, and Espace.

Cars from this Malaysian automaker, named after a certain subatomic particle, were often just rebadged Mitsubishis from 1985 to the early 2000s. Finally, it's stepping up to the plate and has recently produced several original models including the Iriz and Suprima S.

This Spanish car manufacturer was founded in 1950 as a state-owned industrial holding company by the Instituto Nacional de Industria. It once had a rather lengthy dispute with Fiat. It's name is notably acronymous.

Geely, a Chinese auto manufacturing company, has owned this Gothenburg-based brand since 2010 after Ford sold it. Interestingly, Geely also owns The London Taxi Company.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio became an equity investor in this Californian automaker in 2012. The only car it ever produced until selling to Wanxiang Group in 2014 was the plug-in hybrid Karma model.

This automaker's name comes from the Korean word for "modernity," and is the fourth largest car manufacturer in the world. It has recently had success with its Veloster model.

Zoom-Zoom! The RX-8 sports car was powered by a Wankel engine, a rather signature product of this Japanese automaker.