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Automotive Foundation Timeline & Longevity Workbench

Interactive Historical Timeline Scrubber (1800 – Present)
Eras: Region:
1916
1800 1850 1900 1916 (Default) 1950 2000 2026
Active Companies in 1916
9
Brand Added in 1916
BMW
Oldest Active Brand
Peugeot (106 years old)
Era Classification
WWI & Aviation Transition Era
Brand Roster & Industrial Origins
Showing 9 of 13 Companies
Comparative Longevity & Age-Gap Engine
106 Years
Founding Gap (Peugeot 1810 vs BMW 1916)
Complete Automotive Founding Dataset (@stats_feed)
1810 – 1937 Historical Records
Brand Name Founding Year Country / Region Original Industry / Sector Status at 1916 Age at 1916 Current Operational Age (2026)

Saved foundation chronology and age arithmetic

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Saved default year nineteen sixteen minus Ford foundation nineteen zero three gives thirteen years; BMW saved nineteen sixteen gives zero at that selection. Bars share zero at thirty pixels per elapsed year. Company dates and original industries are source fixtures, not independently authenticated corporate histories. At saved reference year twenty-twenty-six, nineteen zero three gives one hundred twenty-three years and nineteen sixteen gives one hundred ten. Bars share zero at four pixels per year. The thirteen-year difference is preserved as both ages increase with the same selected-year shift. Saved Volkswagen foundation nineteen thirty-seven is twenty-one years after default nineteen sixteen. Source marks it inactive then and clamps displayed selected-year age to zero, rather than a negative age. Bars compare future gap and displayed zero using labeled distinct meanings at thirty pixels per year. This describes date filtering, not historical operation verification. Complete native raw JSON/reset and responsive allocation remain checked.

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