Liste des marques automobiles populaires

An Italian auto manufacturer is De Tomaso Automobile ltd. Alejandro de Tomaso, an Argentinean, started it in Modena in 1959. It initially created a number of racing prototypes and vehicles, including a Formula One car in 1970 for Frank Williams' team.

Louis Delâge created the French luxury vehicle and racecar manufacturer Delage in Levallois-Perret, close to Paris, in 1905. Delahaye bought the firm in 1935, and it went out of business in 1953.

John DeLorean, a business expert in the car industry, founded the DeLorean Motor Company (DMC), an American automaker, in 1975. It is famous for the one product it made, the stainless-steel DeLorean sports vehicle with gull-wing doors, as well as for its brief and eventful career, which came to an end in receivership and bankruptcy in 1982. John DeLorean agreed to finance cocaine trafficking in a sting operation in October 1982, but he was later exonerated on the grounds of entrapment.

From 1928 until the 1961 model year, the DeSoto subsidiary of Chrysler Corporation produced and sold American automobiles under the DeSoto nameplate. Throughout its lifetime, the DeSoto brand was used on more than two million vehicles and trucks sold in North American markets.

The Anderson Electric Car Company in Detroit, Michigan built the Detroit Electric, an electric vehicle. From 1907 through 1939, the business produced 13,000 electric vehicles.

Albert Lam, the former group CEO of the Lotus Engineering Group and executive director of Lotus Automobiles of England, resurrected the brand in 2008 in order to create contemporary all-electric cars for Detroit Electric Holding Ltd. of the Netherlands.

Devel Motors created the Devel Sixteen, a prototype hypercar, in the United Arab Emirates. With a purported top speed of 347 mph (558 km/h) and a 0-60 mph time of 1.8 seconds, Devel Motors says that its $1.6 million price tag makes it the world's fastest vehicle.

Guglielmo Diatto established the Italian manufacturer Diatto in Turin in 1835 with the goal of producing "carriages for wealthy consumers." Giovanni and Battista Diatto, Guglielmo's sons, started creating railroad cars for the Orient Express and the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits in 1874.

Mexican bus and truck maker DINA (Diesel Nacional, S.A. de C.V., or National Diesel in English) is situated in Ciudad Sahagn, Hidalgo, Mexico. Diesel Nacional, S.A., which was established by the Mexican federal government in 1951, is presently controlled by Grupo Empresarial G and its affiliates (since 1989). Thanks to technological and business partnerships with a number of businesses, including Fiat, Renault, Marcopolo SA, Flxible, Cummins, Perkins, Chrysler, Caterpillar, Scania, MCI, koda, Spicer, Eaton, and Dana, the company has gone through several stages of production of freight and bus models throughout its history. Buses for urban usage in local and international markets are currently its main product. Together with a BMW affiliate, they developed their truck technology.

German auto and motorbike manufacturer DKW. DKW became an ancestor of the current Audi firm since it was one of the four companies that joined Auto Union in 1932. Jörgen Skafte Rasmussen, a Danish engineer, established a business to make steam fittings at Zschopau, Saxony, Germany, in 1916.

Automobile manufacturer Stellantis, with headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, owns the Dodge brand as an American branch. Performance automobiles have long been a part of the Dodge lineup, and for a significant portion of its history, Dodge was Chrysler's mid-priced brand above Plymouth.

Having taken a brief sabbatical in 2007 and from 2010 to 2012, Dodge (by SRT for 2013 and 2014), a part of American automaker FCA US LLC, produced the Dodge Viper from 1992 to 2017. The two-seat super car's production started in 1991 at the New Mack Assembly Plant before moving to the Conner Avenue Assembly Plant in October 1995.

State-owned Chinese automaker Dongfeng Motor Corporation Ltd. has its headquarters in Wuhan, Hubei. With automobile sales of 5.37 million, 3.50 million, 3.28 million, and 2.30 million in 2021, respectively, it is now the third largest of China's "Big Four" state-owned car manufacturers, which include SAIC Motor, FAW Group, Dongfeng Motor Corporation, and Changan Automobile.
The firm creates and sells automobiles under its own brand names such Venucia, Fengdu, Voyah, Aeolus, and Forthing as well as joint ventures with international brands like Dongfeng-Honda, Dongfeng-Nissan, and Dongfeng-Peugeot Citron (all via subsidiary Dongfeng Motor Group). 79% of sales in 2021 were made by automobiles of foreign brands. Under several of the above-mentioned brand names, including specifically created EV brands like Voyah, it also manufactures electric cars.