Before that, you had to have a weird german guy hand build your buggy.

spacex does not sell any rocket factories even if that is what they spend the most money on developing so i'd consider them a rocket company because to me a company should probably be described by what brings in the income

at some level, even a middle man could say that they are a sourcing and branding company rather whatever product bears their name

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I think you could call any company that tries to mass produce something a "X factory company" because from a certain scale on production and supply chains are where the real knowledge is. Apple could be called a "phone factory company".