Many companies, even Toyota and Honda, build more than one car nameplate from the same platform.
Porsche is the highest-ranking nameplate in the 2011 APEAL Study for a seventh consecutive year.
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Harley has launched four bikes under its namesake brand and two more under the Buell nameplate.
In determining gas mileage for this story, we looked at each nameplate's optimum fuel economy.
But when a nameplate is dropped the owners of present models likely lose on their trade-ins.
None of this applies, though, if you're shopping for a Maybach, DaimlerChrysler's new superluxury nameplate.
Or Land Rover, with a reputation for rugged luxury, is the least reliable nameplate.
Trust is not a benefit that comes packaged with the nameplate on your door.
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But Cruze is slated to become by far the highest-volume U.S. nameplate outfitted with clean diesel.
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Chrysler revived the 300 letter series, and the next Mercury minivan picks up the old Monterey nameplate.
On its page-one nameplate and elsewhere, The Wall Street Journal maintains its period, a holdover from the 1800s.
Dusting off the once-proud Taurus nameplate and putting it on the slow-selling Five Hundred doesn't make things clearer.
The early results can be felt in the Accord redesign, which returns the nameplate to its usual holistic excellence.
They killed this well-known nameplate almost overnight and started calling their cars Nissans.
Even the Timor nameplate, the only local contribution to the vehicle, was missing.
He and his wife own an armchair that still bears the nameplate from its original seller, the Sun Sun Department Store.
But the Civic is too good a nameplate, and Honda too good a company, to stay on the canvas for long.
Hummer is already on the block, and there's no reason to keep the GMC nameplate when Chevrolet already sells pickups and SUVs.
Most racks come with nameplate power that recommending only certain amount of servers be put in based on a worst case basis.
So Mulally is mystified that his predecessors at Ford decided to abandon the Taurus nameplate when developing the company's new family sedan.
Checking the nameplate on the door, hey guys, it says Caucus Room.
The vehicle already is the fastest-moving nameplate in dealer showrooms, Ford said.
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It will be part of the current generation of the nameplate and likely be built for at least a year or two.
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In 2010, in unveiling eQ and plans for it, the company said it wanted to sell several thousand of the nameplate each year.
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General Motors tried this a few years back, taking its revered Pontiac GTO nameplate and slapping it on a rear-wheel-drive Holden imported from Australia.
The nameplate has tallied 14 consecutive months of year-over-year sales gains lead by the popularity of the new LaCrosse (up 20% last month over 2009).
Hyundai improves from 2010 more than any other nameplate this year.
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While the C-MAX Energi nameplate is new to the U.S. market, the technology and design has proven itself already in other ways and in other places.
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In the ads, Ford uses an old-school but engaging 2-D-animation technique and directly compares C-Max to the Prius v, the larger Prius nameplate introduced last year.
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Volvo, on the other hand, was a luxury nameplate that Li figured would become available some day, once Ford realized it had too many brands to feed.
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