Australian Manufacturers' Championship

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The Australian Manufacturers' Championship was awarded by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) between 1971 and 1994 to the winning car manufacturer in a series of motor races held throughout Australia. Whilst the first two championships were open only to Series Production Touring Cars, later championships were generally run to the same regulations as the Australian Touring Car Championship. The title has been revived twice since then, first to provide a name for the first independent series for the touring car series not yet known as Supertouring in 1994 and again in 2008 to provide a combined name for the merged series of the Australian Performance Car Championship and Australian Production Car Championship.

The actual name of the title was also changed by CAMS a number of times during those years as shown in the following table of championship winners.^[1]

Year	Championship	Champion
1971	Australian Manufacturers' Championship	General Motors-Holden
1972	Australian Manufacturers' Championship	Ford Motor Co of Australia
1973	Australian Manufacturers' Championship	General Motors-Holden
1974	Australian Manufacturers' Championship	General Motors-Holden
1975	Australian Manufacturers' Championship	General Motors-Holden
1976	Australian Championship of Makes	General Motors-Holden
1977	Australian Championship of Makes	Ford Motor Co of Australia
1978	Australian Championship of Makes	Ford Motor Co of Australia
1979	Australian Championship of Makes	General Motors-Holden
1980	Australian Championship of Makes	General Motors-Holden
1981	Australian Endurance Championship	Toyota (Australia)
1982	Australian Endurance Championship of Makes	Nissan Motor Co (Australia)
1983	Australian Endurance Championship of Makes	General Motors-Holden Toyo Kogyo (Mazda)
1984	Australian Endurance Championship of Makes	Toyo Kogyo (Mazda)
1985	Australian Manufacturers' Championship	BMW (Aust) Pty Ltd
1986	Australian Manufacturers' Championship	Nissan Motor Co (Australia)
1987	Australian Manufacturers' Championship	BMW (Australia) Pty Ltd Nissan Motor Co (Australia)
1988	Australian Manufacturers' Championship	Ford Motor Co of Australia Toyota Motor Corp Australia Ltd BMW (Australia) Pty Ltd
1989	Australian Manufacturers' Championship	Toyota Motor Corp Australia Ltd
1990	Australian Manufacturers' Championship	Ford Motor Co of Australia
1991	Australian Manufacturers' Championship	Nissan Motor Co (Australia)
1992	Not Contested
1993	Not Contested
1994	Australian Manufacturers' Championship	BMW (Australia) Pty Ltd

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