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| Company type | Private subsidiary of GVW Group, LLC |
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| Industry | Commercial vehicles |
| Founded | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. (October 21, 1897) |
| Headquarters | , |
| Products | Severe Duty Class 7 & 8 truck chassis and Terminal Tractors |
| Website | autocartruck |
The Autocar Company is an American specialist manufacturer of severe-duty, Class 7 and Class 8 vocational trucks, with its headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama. Started in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in October 1897 as a manufacturer of early Brass Era automobiles, and trucks from 1899, Autocar is the oldest surviving motor vehicle brand in the Western Hemisphere.[1][circular reference]
Their last cars of their own manufactures were produced in 1911; after that the company continued as a maker of severe-duty trucks. 42 years later, in 1953, the Autocar Company was taken over by the White Motor Company, (established 1900), which made Autocar their top-of-the-line brand for continuing producing heavy-duty industrial trucks. White Motors was itself taken over 28 years later in turn by Volvo Trucks of Sweden in 1981 with Autocar continuing as a separate division. In 2001, Autocar was acquired by GVW Group, LLC, which revived Autocar as an independent company. Autocar now builds four models of custom-engineered heavy-duty trucks and has regained leading positions in several vocational segments.