The first-generation Acura Legend, introduced in Japan on Oct. 22, 1985, becomes the first production Honda Motor Co. vehicle with a V-6 engine.

The show had been held in New York City for decades before moving to Detroit. “Wheels of Freedom” was the theme of the 1960 show, which was sponsored by the Automobile Manufacturers Association.

The Fairmont series was introduced at the beginning of the 1978 model year to replace the discontinued Ford Maverick and was built through 1983. Lincoln-Mercury dealers sold a version of the Fairmont called the Mercury Zephyr.

Saturn's first crossover, the plastic-bodied Vue, is unveiled to the media on Oct. 5, 2000, in Miami, one day before the vehicle's official introduction to the public at the Miami auto show.

The industry's two-day U.S. sales reporting continued with September declines at Ford, GM and Fiat Chrysler, according to estimates. That followed steep drops tallied Tuesday by Asian automakers, in a September that was thrown off course by quirks in the sales-reporting calendar.

The Cayenne, Porsche's first utility vehicle, makes its public debut Sept. 25, 2002, on the eve of the Paris auto show.

The concept, formally introduced on Sept. 15, 2009, at the Frankfurt auto show, featured gull-wing doors and was powered by a three-cylinder turbodiesel engine and two electric motors. It was designed and engineered to visualize what the company called "the dynamic performance typical of a BMW against the backdrop of future demands in sustained mobility."

The front-wheel-drive, four-passenger Volkswagen Eos convertible hardtop is introduced at the Frankfurt auto show on Sept. 12, 2005.

The biggest Asian automakers in the U.S. posted double-digit sales gains last month in the latest sign that the market is picking up strength as the summer advances. Across the industry, U.S. light-vehicle sales rose 10.2 percent in August, the second straight month of higher volume, the Automotive News data center estimated.

Toyota Motor Co. is established on Aug. 28, 1937, when it is spun off from the company founded by Sakichi Toyoda, an inventor of textile machinery.

Henry Leland -- the father of the mass-produced, U.S. luxury car -- forms Cadillac Automobile Co. on Aug. 22, 1902, with a group of investors who had previously tried but failed to start a carmaker with Henry Ford.

Henry Ford, combining his love for invention, industry and agriculture, introduces what was billed as the first plastic automobile -- dubbed the "Soybean Car" -- on Aug. 13, 1941.

Alejandro de Tomaso, a former Argentine race car driver, acquires bankrupt Maserati from French automaker Citroen on Aug. 8, 1975, just months after the the famed Italian maker of exotic race and sports cars had declared bankruptcy.

Honda, Subaru, Hyundai, Kia and the VW brand were helped by demand for new and redesigned light trucks, while cars drove Toyota to a small gain. Nissan, Mazda and Mitsubishi posted lower sales.