There are quite a few dead car manufacturers in the world so the list is huge. Therefore we’ve chosen from this vast list only a few companies and names an only from United States. Enjoy!

01.Abbott-Detroit

The Abbott-Detroit was an American luxury automobile manufactured between 1909 and 1919. Well designed, the cars released by Abbott were also powerful with their Continental engines. By 1913 these cars were guaranteed for life, when electric lighting and starting had been standardized. Abbott produced about 15-20 units per day in 1916 so they moved to a larger facility in Cleveland. This will prove to be too stressful for the company’s finances and the bankruptcy was declared two years later, in 1918.

Models that Abbott-Detroit offered included:

* 34/445 hp (25/30 kW) Foredoor Roadster
* Limousine (1913 model)
* 44/40 hp (33/37 kW) Battleship Roadster
* 34 hp (25 kW) Model F
* 31 hp (24 kW) Model L
* 22 hp (20 kW) Model K

Prices ranged from $1700 for the Foredoor to $3050 for the Limousine.

02.Adams-Farwell

Adams-Farwell was a American automobile manufacturer from Dubuque, Iowa, founded by Herbert and Eugene Adams and Fay Oliver Farwell at the end of the 19th Century.

From 1889 to 1905 they built five prototypes of a car with 20 to 25 horsepower air-cooled three-cylinder rotary engine with a vertical crankshaft over the rear axle.

Only prototype no. 5 got into serial production. From 1905 to 1912, Adams-Farwell built 52 such cars, the last one called Model 9 and used a 5 cylinder 8 litre rotary of 50 horsepower. 1904 saw the introduction of a convertible brougham where the front driver’s seat could fold up which allowed controls to be transferred to the rear seat. The forward control model was dropped in 1908, after which no new models were introduced, with only small changes made from then on. Prices reached a lofty USD$3,500 by 1912.

03.American Austin Car Company

The American Austin Car Company was founded in 1929 in Butler, Pennsylvania in order to assemble and sell in the United States a version of the Austin 7 car, called American Austin. After some initial success the Great Depression set in, and sales fell off to the point that production was suspended. In 1934 the company filed for bankruptcy. About 20,000 cars were produced.

American Bantam
In 1935 Roy Evans, a former salesman for Austin, bought out the bankrupt company, which was reorganized under the name American Bantam. “Bantam” is a smaller-bred version of any particular poultry breed—the name must have been chosen for the size of the automobiles that the company made. All ties to UK Austin were severed. A series of changes was made to the American Austin car design, including a modified engine, and an exterior sheetmetal designed by Alexis de Sakhnoffsky. Production was resumed in 1937 and continued through 1941. Despite a wide range of Bantam body styles, ranging from light trucks to a wooden station wagons, only about 6,000 Bantams of all types were produced. American Bantam’s 1938 model is famous for being the inspiration for Donald Duck’s car.

04.American Motors Corporation (AMC)

AMC was an American automobile company formed on January 14, 1954 by the merger of the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and the Hudson Motor Car Company. At the time, it was the largest corporate merger in U.S. history, valued at US$198 million ($1.44 billion in 2006 dollars). Declining sales and a fiercely competitive auto market in the United States forced AMC to seek a partner in the late 1970s, which led to a tie-up with France’s Renault in 1979.

The arrangement lasted until March 2, 1987, when American Motors was purchased by the Chrysler Corporation, which discontinued the use of AMC and Renault brand names in the United States. The Jeep line was continued, as well as some of the models under the Eagle marque.

05.Apperson

The Apperson was a brand of American automobile manufactured from 1902 to 1926 in Kokomo, Indiana. The company was founded by the brothers Edgar and Elmer Apperson shortly after they left Haynes-Apperson; for a time they continued to use a front-mounted flat-twin engine, following it with a horizontal four.

Source: Wikipedia.org