Coventry

Active 1922 – present Luxury / Prestige Sports & Specialist

Britain's best-known luxury sports and saloon car maker, founded in Blackpool as a motorcycle sidecar business before becoming one of Coventry's defining marques. Renamed from SS Cars in…

Defunct 1923 – 1984 Sports & Specialist Mainstream & Utility

A Coventry marque with roots in Victorian bicycle manufacturing, Triumph became one of Britain's best-loved sports car makers through the TR series and Spitfire, alongside mainstream saloons like…

Defunct 1896 – 2009 Luxury / Prestige

One of Britain's oldest car makers, Daimler was founded in Coventry in 1896 to exploit the British rights to Gottlieb Daimler's engine patents. It became the marque of…

Defunct 1903 – 1963 Mainstream & Utility

A Coventry maker of dependable family cars, the Standard Motor Company was founded in 1903 by Reginald Maudslay. It built the post-war Vanguard, bought Triumph in the mid-1940s…

Defunct 1904 – 2005 Mainstream & Utility Luxury / Prestige

Rover grew from a Coventry bicycle business into one of Britain's most respected makers of dignified family and executive saloons, from the P4 and P5 to the P6…

Defunct 1919 – 1960 Luxury / Prestige

A Coventry maker of dignified, well-engineered luxury cars, Armstrong Siddeley grew out of the same Siddeley-Deasy business that also built aircraft engines, and its cars shared some of…