Year Founded
1928
Founder
Walter Chrysler
Headquarters
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Parent
Chrysler Corporation
DeSoto was an automobile manufacturing company launched by Chrysler Corporation in 1928 and was closed in 1961. During these years, the company sold 2 million units of trucks and cars. The company was first created in Auburn, Indiana, in 1912 by Glenn Fry, Hayes Fry, H.J. Clark, V.H. Van, and L.M Fields.
The company was first manufacturing horse buggies and was called the Zimmerman Manufacturing Company. The Zimmerman Manufacturing Company was first started in 1886 and it entered the automobile industry in 1908. The company was bought by Auburn Automobile Company in 1916. The DeSoto company was created as a subsidiary of Zimmerman automobiles.
DeSoto was then purchased by Chrysler. The company was made a division of Chrysler to compete with Willys, Hudson, Studebaker, and Pontiac.
The DeSoto vehicles were manufactured by Chrysler Corporation.
The last vehicle of DeSoto was 1961 model.
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