American Motor Alliance

A conglomerate made up of a collection of semi-autonomies automotive companies. Formed in 1935 during the height of the American Great Depression. A response to the struggling of smaller auto companies to survive the drop in demand for new cars. Each component company giving up total independence to be able to function as a larger company and gain the benefits of a larger production base.

Over the time they have had parts shut down and new ones join.

Founding
During the great depression the Auto industry was hit hard, especially luxury and specialty brands who didn't have very low end offerings and often higher production costs. Alfred Amherst President of Amherst Motor-carriage Corporation, and son of company founder Adolphus Amherst, arranged a meeting with other companies in a similar situation.

Amherst Motor Company
Formally Amherst Motor-Carriage Corporation, the oldest still operating Auto company in the United states. Founded in 1894 it is now the oldest still operating car company in the United States, but this fact may be the only reason it still exists. Financial records have shown the Single factory car company has not turned an annual profit since 1994 when its Centurion line of cars sold very well buoyed by the very high priced Century Edition, and has not had back to back profitable years since 1953.

During a 2010 investors call when it was announced that around a Billion dollars was going to be invested to upgrade the Detroit Amherst factory and pay off the divisions debt, then CEO Matthew Colt in response to if would be better to shut down the ailing division "There is a value in history there is a value in the long ties that the Amherst factory has to the city of Detroit, to the American Motor Alliance and to History. There is no internal apatite for ending that history."

Well known Models
Centurion- A luxury line of throw back cars, well liked by its fans but often seen as a strange beast.

Rattler- the longest continuing model of cars being produced continually since the companies founding. It is often described as "Definitely a car"

Dragon Dynamic Designs
Founded in 1971 and joined AMA in 1978 in order to expand their production and insure a financial safety blanket for their high end cars and to be a new crown jewel for AMA. Dragon Dynamic Designs is a Southern California based it began by importing performance cars from Japan and Italy and supping them up and customizing before forming a the company in '63 where they started producing more original vehicles (still often using import engines and other parts). Inspired by founder Mark "Myo" Olden's love of fantasy and the Japanese mythology his Japanese mother read to him when he was growing up on Military bases Myo used Dragon imagery for the cars his company designed a tradition that continued after his death in high speed crash during the 1983 Tokyo Grand Prix at the age of 37.

Well known Models
Azure Dragon