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Company Name: Visionary Vehicles

Company Type: Manufacturer & Exporter

Company Category: Hybrid Vehicle

Company Profile

Vision - Strategy - Determination - These are the qualities that have characterized the leading innovators of our time - the Henry Fords, Howard Hughes's and Andrew Carnegies who have built industrial empires from the kernel of an idea. Auto industry pioneer Malcolm Bricklin has the vision, wisdom and determination to stand among these giants, and he possesses a healthy dose of charisma, too. Bricklin's newest venture, Visionary Vehicles, is now planning a luxury plug-in electric vehicle capable of achieving more then 100 miles per gallon.

Visionary Vehicles is only the latest milestone on the road of auto-industry innovation - a road that Bricklin helped to pave.

Malcolm Bricklin is recognized as one of the automobile industry's leading entrepreneurs, innovators and visionaries. He was the founder and Chief Executive of Subaru of America, Bricklin Vehicle Corporation, International Automobile Importers, Yugo America and now Visionary Vehicles. He has 40 years of experience in designing, engineering, manufacturing, remanufacturing, importing and marketing automobiles. Mr. Bricklin is known throughout the industry as one of the most original and imaginative automobile executives in history.

In 1968 he founded Subaru of America, Inc. During the 1970s, Mr. Bricklin founded Bricklin Motors and produced the world's first "safety sports car," the Bricklin SV1, which was well designed, easy-to-drive, and decades ahead of its time in terms of driver safety. In the 1980s, he formed Yugo America, Inc. With 160,000 vehicles sold during its launch phase, the Yugo quickly became the fastest selling European import in automotive history.

Today, Mr. Bricklin, fulfilling his lifelong commitment to improving the environment through innovative fuel efficient vehicles, has set his sites on delivering the first full line of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) to consumers. His innovative strategy will be the catalyst to jump start the hybrid and electric industry and transform the automobile industry as we know it.

With the growing threat of global warming and a need for the reduction, if not the elimination of automobile emissions, there is an urgent need to place new technologies within reach of the general public and to deliver these innovations without sacrificing high performance, safety or luxury.

Visionary Vehicles is an international automobile company on a mission to bring an exciting new brand of environmentally friendly, aggressively priced, beautifully styled, high-quality vehicles into North America. Visionary Vehicles will also introduce a new retail experience for its consumers, by developing destination locations to make available the very latest hybrid products and in the process it will create a revolutionary new consumer-friendly environment for its retailing facilities.

About Company

Bricklin started Visionary Vehicles to design and engineer 'green' vehicles. And he's convinced that electric cars, either plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) or pure electric vehicles (EVs) are the answer. Bricklin says he knows that there exist a number of companies and engineers creating their own PHEVs and EVs. Where he thinks the entire electric vehicle industry would benefit is in the use of common components. Bricklin believes buying components such as batteries and motors and controllers in large quantities and sharing the parts with other electric vehicle makers will help bring down the end cost to the manufacturer. And, the savings would be passed on to the consumer.